Plant: Moss
Latin name: Bryum
Description: Green, green moss. It’s a humble perennial plant that grows in the cool shade, often evergreen. And since it grows only up to about 4 inches tall, it makes a perfect carpet for the woodland garden and shade garden. Moss doesn’t grow flowers, but rather grows tiny spikes that produce [...]

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Dianne Shoemaker, Ohio State University Extension dairy specialist, reports there are changes in availability of 7 percent iodine.
Completing one of the critical steps in newborn calves, foals, lambs, kids and piglet care will now take a little more planning. Having a constant supply of 7 percent tincture of iodine on the farm is more important [...]

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Pixie-Bob cats are domestic cats that share many of the physical and personality characteristics of bobcats. These original “Legend Cats” are thought to have originally developed from the naturally occurring matings of American bobcats to barn cats.
In the mid-1980s, Carol Ann Brewer of Washington state took two “natural hybrid” kittens and bred them to create [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
MEDINA — A former executive at Panther Expedited Services in Seville was sentenced to four years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to killing a Sheffield Lake man and injuring his wife in a 2006 accident on Interstate 71.
John J. Sliter, 37, of 2917 Woodhaven Drive, Granger Township, pleaded guilty last month [...]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
WESTFIELD TWP. — When Garlene Gregoire was sick with ovarian cancer in 2006, her son offered her a way she could be remembered for years to come.
The Ohio Department of Transportation had just bought 6 acres of Ryan Gregoire’s land off Lake Road to build an access road to the nearby [...]

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Beulah E. (nee Webster) Codding, 99, of Medina, passed away Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, in Medina.
She was born Aug. 18, 1908, to Owen and Nellie (nee Hatch) Webster in Granger Township. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Codding was a member of Remsen Christian Church, the Farm Bureau and Medina Grange. She enjoyed the outdoors and [...]

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Julie Connors, 88, passed away peacefully at a daughter’s home in Granger Township in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 21, 2008.
She was born Nov. 2, 1919, on Cleveland’s west side as the second child of John and Julia Cepis. She attended Cleveland City Schools and graduated from James Ford Rhodes High School. She married [...]

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Kathleen Lillian (nee White) Currence, 42, passed away Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008.
She is survived by her husband, David; children, Kara and Ryan Robinson, and Dylan and Samuel Williams; stepson, David Currence II; mother, Jeanne Smythe; stepfather, John Smythe; brother, David (Christine) White; sister, Lynne (David) Fitzgibbons; and loving nephew, David Fitzgibbons.
Memorial service: 11 a.m. Wednesday [...]

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Mary L. Dalton, 84, of Brunswick, passed away Friday, Jan. 25, 2008, at Golden Acres Nursing Home in Amherst.
She was born March 7, 1923, in Fort Gay, W.Va. Mary was a homemaker and enjoyed cooking, sewing and decorating.
She is survived by her sons, Eddie (Annie) Bartram of Lorain, Larry (Kathy) Bartram of Massachusetts; daughters, [...]

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Richard Lee “Dick” Gensemer, 79, died Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008.
He had lived his entire life in Medina. Following graduation from MHS in 1946, he attended colleges and later entered business with his parents, Glenn and Telitha Gensemer, in funeral service on the southeast corner of the Public Square until 1972, when the building was [...]

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