BRUNSWICK — How can seven people determine what more than 30,000 people are thinking? City council’s committee-of-the-whole decided Monday night that polling and focus groups will help take the city’s pulse on funding issues.
After council’s proposed income tax increase from 1.35 percent to 2.15 percent was defeated by about 83 percent of voters in November, [...]

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LODI — The village may have no legal representation after Dec. 31 with council’s rejection of a resolution to renew the contract of village solicitor Ted Lesiak for another year.
Although council members voted 3-2 to renew his contract at their meeting Monday evening, five of the six members must approve emergency resolutions in order for [...]

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State Rep. Bill Batchelder, R-Medina, will champion legislation to control the payday loan industry, an industry that supplies loans with interest rates that in Ohio can reach 391 APR.
The two-week loans have 15 percent interest, but if they are renewed every two weeks for a year, the interest rate becomes 391 percent.
“In Ohio today we [...]

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Mary Lou Auman, of Medina, passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007.
She was born May 14, 1927, in Pennsylvania and moved to Cleveland in 1954, after being raised in Johnstown, Pa. Mrs. Auman retired from F.W. Woolworth Co. at the age of 62 and moved to Brunswick a year later. She was a member of Brunswick [...]

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Ellen I. Blake, 90, of Elyria, formerly of Spencer and Haines City, Fla., passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007.
She was born July 10, 1917, in Baughman Township, Wayne County, to Joseph Ward and Vernice Irene Frase Musser. She was an organist at Mount Zion Lutheran Church, Spencer, for many years before moving to Florida, where [...]

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Ellsworth Jameyson, 90, of Mount Vernon, passed away Monday, Dec. 17, 2007, at Country Court Nursing Home in Mount Vernon.
He was born Aug. 16, 1917, in Lodi and resided in Elyria for 40 years. He later moved to Coshocton, where he resided for 25 years. Mr. Jameyson was employed by Columbia Gas Transmission for 37 [...]

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Wilburta G. Rogers, 83, of Brunswick, passed away Monday, Dec. 17, 2007, at Pine Valley Nursing Home.
She was born in Cleveland and was a Medina County resident for 28 years. Mrs. Rogers was a homemaker. She enjoyed gardening and her flowers, crocheting and hooking rugs.
Mrs. Roberts is survived by her husband, Howard of Garfield Heights; [...]

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- Police were called to a party in the 300 block of Stratton Drive at 1:20 a.m. Sunday in response to a call from a resident who wanted two people at the gathering to leave.
Alex Horning, 22, no known address, reportedly was trying to start fights all evening. Horning and his girlfriend, Gina Smith, 20, [...]

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Paula Kay Smiseck passed away peacefully on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007, while surrounded by family and friends.
Mrs. Smiseck worked for Wadsworth City Schools for 28 years.
She is survived by her daughter, Wendy Schmock, and son, Christopher Smiseck.
Service: 11 a.m. Thursday at Cox Funeral Home, 1376 High St., Wadsworth (one mile north of Interstate 76 on [...]

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MEDINA — Roughly once every boys basketball season, there is a Medina County game that defies all logic.
The 2007-08 version occurred on Tuesday night, when Medina shook off its season-long offensive woes and engaged Wadsworth in a virtual track meet on the court.
Center Richard Sumlin, guard Danny Rymer and forward Corey Morse all set career [...]

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