LORAIN — A $7.1 million borrowing plan is a price worth paying for waterfront development, Lorain and FirstEnergy Corp. officials said at Monday’s City Council meeting. Council unanimously approved the 25-year plan to purchase a 1.73-mile parcel from FirstEnergy at and around the Edgewater substation at 200 Oberlin Ave. The money will help pay FirstEnergy [...]

State Route 303, between State Route 58 and Pitts Road in Pittsfield Township, is back open after an accident was cleared away.

PITTSFIELD TWP. — The man found dead inside the house Lorain County sheriff’s deputies had surrounded for most of the day died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Chief Deputy Dennis Cavanaugh declined to release the man’s name. He said deputies were called to the scene before 10 a.m. today for a domestic disturbance involving [...]

It was a crazy morning for drivers and law enforcement alike. And it all can be blamed on Mother Nature and a nasty mix of rain, ice and sleet. Several accidents sent troopers and officer all over the county early Monday morning. Black ice and freezing rain was the worst near Middle Ridge Road and [...]

  ELYRIA — State Rep. Matt Lundy, D-Elyria, has announced that he will run for Lorain County commissioner next year. Lundy is the first Democrat to declare his intentions to seek the seat currently held by county Commissioner Tom Williams, the lone Republican on the three-member board. Williams defeated former state Rep. Joe Koziura, D-Lorain, [...]

OBERLIN — Sean Decatur, Oberlin College’s dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will be the next president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Decatur, who has been dean at Oberlin since 2008, will start his new job on July 1. “Oberlin is a wonderful institution and it has been a pleasure to be [...]