Cedar Point announced today its newest roller coaster will be the most expensive ride in the park’s history. The $30 million Gatekeeper will be a “winged roller coaster,” in which riders will sit two on either side of the steel track with their legs dangling free. Hundreds of people gathered at the Cedar Point entrance [...]
15 Minutes: Meet bead enthusiast Roger Golba
Roger Golba Age: 60 Lives: Avon Lake Pursuit: Beads Where can people find your beads? My beads are at 32961 Pin Oak Parkway. We’re only open four days a month. Our next four days are Sept. 21 to 24 and you can look for us at Beadshopfinder.com. You are interested in beads and have a [...]
LCCC Tennis Classic: Caleb Mayer serves up a victory
ELYRIA — Youth was served Sunday in the men’s singles championship of the 30th annual Lorain County Community College Tennis Classic. Well, youth served better, put it that way, and that was the difference. Caleb Mayer found his game after service struggles in the first set, while defending champ Franco Gallo never could quite get [...]
Spotless spot start crushes Crushers
AVON — Desperate for a starter, Florence manager Fran Riordan placed a call to veteran right-hander Andy Clark, who had been on the suspended list all season after playing for the Freedom the last four years. Clark responded with the spot start to end all spot starts Sunday, taking a perfect game into the sixth [...]
Observations from Browns practice
BEREA – The Browns are in the dog days of camp. The players are tired, the coaches are sick of telling the players the same things and 15 players missed practice for the second straight day with injuries. But the beat went on this morning, with 75 of the 90 players on the roster in [...]
2012 high school football preview: Young Comets tested and ready
AMHERST — One and nine season’s don’t normally happen to a football program as storied as Amherst’s. Yet that’s exactly what happened last season to the Comets, who had a rookie coach in Chad DiFranco and a bunch of underclassmen forced into action due to injuries and player defections. It’s something DiFranco and this year’s [...]
VIDEO: Teacher accused of sex with student gets probation
ELYRIA — Former North Ridgeville High School teacher Constance Yacobozzi was sentenced this morning to probation for having sexual relations with a 17-year-old student last year. Yacobozzi pleaded guilty to sexual battery in June. She apologized for her behavior during today’s hearing, saying she had been humiliated. But the boy’s mother said Yacobozzi deserved prison [...]
Browns: Josh Gordon has to learn fast, show results
BEREA — Rookie receiver Josh Gordon stopped running the go route, and Colt McCoy’s pass hit the ground with a thud. The closest sets of hands belonged to defensive backs. Coach Pat Shurmur had seen enough and replaced Gordon with Joshua Cribbs. Offensive coordinator Brad Childress reminded Gordon not so subtly — from about 30 [...]
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