By SANDY BARNOSKY
Special to The Gazette
Many people got a new dog during the Christmas season, but first-time dog owners are sometimes unaware of the importance of setting boundaries and teaching puppies what’s expected of them. Basic commands and points of etiquette learned in the first year will shape the dogs they will be as adults. [...]

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By MIKE MILLER
OSU Extension, Medina County
Ohio Treasurer Richard Cordray announced today the application process for the 2008 Agricultural Linked Deposit program opened Jan. 7 and will close at 5 p.m. March 14. The program allows Ohio farmers to receive loans at reduced interest rates through their local banks or farm credit agencies in order to [...]

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By KRISTEN NOWAK WINN
Staff Writer
Natural, environmentally friendly products are slowly filling up more and more stores’ shelves.
We know where to go to buy organic produce, dry foods free of artificial flavors and preservatives and even some nontoxic cleaning products.
But those unique, hard-to-find specialty gifts you can feel good about buying for someone are almost impossible [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
WESTFIELD TWP. — With dreams of rock or sports stardom, Cloverleaf High School students interviewed for the opportunity to reinvent themselves while MTV cameras roll.
A producer from the MTV show “Made,” which makes over a teenager, was at Cloverleaf Monday afternoon for an open casting call.
On one recent episode, an unathletic girl [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA — An expanding school district and two new elementary schools scheduled to be built in the next one to two years are reasons the Medina City School District is citing for putting a levy on the March 4 ballot for additional operating funds.
The continuous 6.9-mill levy would generate about $8.75 million [...]

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By HANNAH SCHAEFER
Staff Writer
MEDINA TWP. — A Lagrange man was injured Monday morning when his tractor-trailer rig tipped over on the entrance ramp at state Route 18 and Interstate 71 north.
Richard Coughey was turning onto the ramp around 10:50 a.m. when the tractor-trailer tipped onto its left side, leaving Coughey pinned beneath the steering wheel, [...]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
MEDINA — Carol Movius remembers her father not only dressed like Frank Sinatra, always looking debonair in a suit and his black fedora, but he lived like him as well.
Like the classic Sinatra song, Donald Tubbs, who died Jan. 29 at the age of 88, did things his way — a way [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
MEDINA — A Medina Township man accused of shooting into a North State Road apartment with a shotgun in June was sentenced to five years in prison after a four-day trial ended Thursday.
Christopher Fogler, 21, of 4757 Ledgewood Road, Apt. U-7D, was found guilty of improperly discharging a firearm in a habitation, [...]

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John Bacso, 86, of Wadsworth, went to be with the Lord following a brief illness on Monday, Feb. 4, 2008.
He was born Oct. 17, 1921, to Peter and Elizabeth Bacso. He was a member of Chestnut Baptist Church. He was the former co-owner of Bacso Hardware and Coal. Mr. Bacso was a trumpet player in [...]

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Alice Borowy passed away Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, at the Granny & Gramps Adult Home in Amelia, Va.
Mrs. Borowy resided in Medina since 1942, moving to Virginia in early 1990s. She was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.
She is survived by her daughter, Barbara (Norman) Goulding of Amelia; grandchildren, Lisa (Alan) Gribler, [...]

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