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LODI — “What words start with an ‘F’ and are number words?” first-grade teacher Kay Rickard asked a classroom of parents and students Thursday night.
They were all looking at a wall filled with words grouped by letter. On the left side of the wall were the two correct words — four and five.
Some of the [...]

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MEDINA — A jury acquitted a city man of rape Tuesday but convicted him of a less serious charge for an incident against a 4-year-old girl two years ago.
Mitchell A. Reinhardt, 40, of 650 Smokerise Drive, was convicted of gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony, after a week-long trial. He could spend as many as [...]

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It’s about time for retirement, said Don Sommer, who co-owned LE Sommer and Sons in Seville.
“Don Sommer has been in business a long time and it was a good opportunity for him to retire,” said Al Holdren, president of Town & Country Co-op, an Ashland-based agricultural cooperative. “We thought (his store) was a really good [...]

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HARRISVILLE TWP. — Firefighters from Lodi and surrounding areas fought a fire at 8164 Vandemark Road for about 6½ hours Tuesday.

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MEDINA — Medina County Prosecutor Dean Holman has been elected president of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association for 2008.

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- At 11:04 a.m. Friday, $10.18 worth of gas was stolen from Stop-N-Go, 1033 S. Court St.

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- An explosion slightly damaged a vehicle driving in the 500 block of Lee Lore Drive in Chippewa Lake at about 10 p.m. Thursday.
When the vehicle drove near a 2-liter bottle filled with toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil on the edge of a driveway, the bottle blew up.
Four boys admitted to making the bottle [...]

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Mona C. Lemmon, 96, of Medina, passed away Monday, Dec. 3, 2007, in Medina.
She was born Dec. 1, 1911, in Salina, Pa. Mrs. Lemmon was a retired registered nurse for RMI Organizations. She attended Crosspointe Community Church.
She is survived by her son, Charles R. (Suzanne) Lemmon Jr. of Medina; stepgranddaughters, Missy (Brian) Rieg, Deanna (Matt) [...]

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Harry E. Orr III, 47, of Medina, passed away suddenly Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, in Medina.
He was born March 29, 1960, in Pompton Plains, N.J. He was a 1978 graduate of Medina High School and attended Baldwin-Wallace College, where he played four years on the football team, being a member of the National Championship team. [...]

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