By ALBERT GRINDLE
Staff Writer
It was a question that burned in the minds of softball coaches throughout Northeast Ohio this spring.
Not because there were so many different answers, but because simply there wasn’t one.
So, how do you make contact with an Emlyn Knerem pitch?
“Close your eyes and swing,” Medina coach Al DiTommaso said.
“And pray hard,” Blue [...]

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By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
BEREA — LeCharles Bentley sat on a bench outside Browns headquarters Wednesday afternoon waiting for his mom to pick him up. When she arrived in a white luxury car, he rolled his small piece of luggage to the curb, placed it in the trunk and was driven away.
A couple of hours later, [...]

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Being a local product, Jessica Toocheck will certainly help the Akron Racers sell a few tickets, which is never a bad thing for a franchise seeking all the fans it can get.
That is not, however, why the 2004 Medina High graduate has a guaranteed contract that will pay her $4,000 to play women’s professional fastpitch [...]

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By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
COLUMBUS — The Medina Youth Lacrosse boys team won the 13th annual Ohio Cup over the weekend.
The team trounced Massillon Jackson 10-1 in the title game and outscored its five opponents in the event by a combined 41-13.
Earlier, Medina Youth Lacrosse won the title at the North Coast Lacrosse Tournament, again [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
GREENVILLE, Ohio — In the early 1990s, Darke County commissioners had to decide whether to expand the existing courthouse or construct another building in the county seat of Greenville.
They decided to move the juvenile/probate court to another building several blocks away from downtown, but security and economic concerns caused commissioners to rethink [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA — While the city, Medina County District Library Board of Trustees and county commissioners do some number crunching regarding a parking deck, the city may start looking for an architect as early as June 24.
Though all three entities have not reached a formal agreement as far as dollar commitments to the [...]

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Cynthia D. Davisson, of Akron, a medical assistant for the American Red Cross, listens as Mike Medley (right) recounts the last time he gave blood, which was in college, Wednesday at Garfield Elementary School in Medina. Medley and Nancy Reeves (left), attorneys at Walker & Jocke in Medina, gave blood on their lunch hour [...]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
GUILFORD TWP. — For nearly 40 years, a Wadsworth man whose plane was shot down while he was fighting over North Vietnam has been missing.
Dan Weltzien, owner of SkyPark airport in Guilford Township, thinks it’s time to commemorate the pilot who was once his flight school student and other area pilots and [...]

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Dorothy Marie Barnes, 70, of Homerville, passed away suddenly Tuesday, June 10, 2008, at her home.
She was born in Marshallville, Ohio, on Feb. 22, 1938, to William and Dorothy Ryneer Franks and grew up in Wayne County. She graduated from Northwestern High School in 1956. For the past 46 years she resided in Homerville. [...]

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Charles J. Kozak, 49, of Medina, passed away suddenly Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
He was employed as a machinist at Efficient Machine in Strongsville. Mr. Kozak enjoyed golf, building things, fishing and hunting. Most of all, he devoted his life to his children. He will be missed greatly.
Mr. Kozak leaves behind his wife, Kathryn (nee Chalkley); [...]

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