By LORRAINE BARNETT
Special to The Gazette
Plant: Bachelor’s button
Common name: Cornflower
Latin name: Centaurea cyanus
Description: A favorite annual flower in American and European garden beds, a single cornflower looks like a burst of fireworks. Some types grow about a foot tall while others can grow up to three feet tall. Fuzzy leaves are long and graceful as [...]

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By MIKE MILLER
OSU Extension Medina County
Most people have heard of the decline of the honey bees (Apis mellifera) due to pests, unfavorable weather patterns and manifold stresses. Fortunately the attention has encouraged interested persons to avoid pesticides where possible and conserve foraging habitats for the honey bees.
The question arose during an OSU Extension conference of [...]

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By JOHN BENSON
Special to The Gazette
The love between a horse and its owner is a special bond.
Seville native Stephanie Riggenbach, 27, should know. Not only has she had her beloved horse Mitch for 27 years, but the loyal animal was the subject of the equine painter’s initial foray into the art form.
Now less than [...]

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By BETTY CARLISLE
Special to The Gazette
Children born in the fabulous ’50s recall a time filled with friends, fresh air and family fun all seasoned with a dash of frugality by parents who had been touched by the Depression.
Fresh air fun
In the decade when Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat wove a mere 223 words into [...]

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By ANGELA HUSTON
Special to The Gazette
Buckeye High School senior Julie Kotesovec has had an impressive school career.
She is ranked sixth in a class of 185, is in all advanced classes and carries a grade point average of 4.34.
In elementary school, she realized she did not like to miss school because it was too hard [...]

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By Angela Huston
Special to The Gazette
I have a friend whose family members seem to have a penchant for turning seemingly innocuous events into curiously mind-boggling situations. Her brother recently added another to the list.
He was outside with his young family flying a small wooden plane around the yard when —SWOOSH! — a gust of wind [...]

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By Angela Huston
Special to The Gazette
The YWCA of Medina County honored Donna Bica, Diane Bugner, Teresa Cotman, Kathleen Davis, Janet Householder, Kathryn Ihrig-Elseser, Norma Jesse, Barbara Johns, Carole Kowell, Laura Toth and Lifetime Achievement Award winner Josephine Becks at the 17th Annual Women of Distinction Awards Luncheon on May 15 at Weymouth Country Club.
In her [...]

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Photo by Aaron Josefczyk
Medina’s Kyle Von Duyke is The Gazette’s MVP in baseball.
By BRAD BOURNIVAL
Staff Writer
Big Ron took the guess-work out three years ago and Kyle Von Duyke has reaped the benefits because of it.
To give his son an edge, Ron gave Kyle one sugges-tion: Think fastball.
Not only think fastball, but think fastball all the [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR

Staff Writer
MEDINA TWP. — An 11-year-old’s determination, passion and strong legs propelled her into one of 22 spots in the Chautauqua School of Dance summer workshop.
Ella Davidson, of Medina Township, will be working with many great dancers and directors at the ballet institute in New York, said her teacher, Mia Klinger, artistic director [...]

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By MARIA KACIK

Staff Writer
WADSWORTH — City council members recently were presented plans for a redesign of Wadsworth Municipal Airport.
City Service Director Chris Easton said the Federal Aviation Administration might fund 95 percent of the new airport’s $25 million price tag, and construction potentially could begin in the next few years.
The project would be done in [...]

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