By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
MEDINA — For the 14th straight year, the Medina Invitational Soccer Tournament was an extravaganza for youth teams involved in the sport.
This year, 168 teams in 28 divisions participated in the MIST, which featured entries from Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia.
All told, four field complexes were used to [...]

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By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
AKRON — Johanna Barnowski has one title under her belt, and now she will get a chance to compete for another.
Barnowski, sponsored by Kim Barnowski at Howard Hanna Smythe Cramer in Wadsworth, recently won the championship in the Akron Suburban Stock Division.
She will now compete for the world championship July 26 [...]

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By ADAM FERRISE
Special to The Gazette
Look past the 6-foot-4 frame, all the accomplishments and the records, and all that’s left of Sam Maynard is heart.
It’s why he was able to ascend from being “pretty bad” at cross country and track in middle school, why his coaches gush when they talk about him and why [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR

Staff Writer
MEDINA — Using a solar panel, a sheet of Styrofoam and a fan, local students created solar-powered boats to race at Cuyahoga Community College’s Western Campus on Friday.
As part of Solar Car Camp at the Medina County Career Center, run by advanced science teachers Jeff Hicks and Tolley Schnurr, 20 seventh-, eighth-, [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD

Staff Writer
COLUMBUS — The 10th District Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower court decision affirming townships’ residential zoning powers.
In 2005, the Medina County Prosecutor’s Office sued the state over Senate Bill 118, which passed the previous year and limited townships’ zoning rights. The county won its lawsuit in August 2007 and [...]

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Jack Petrella of Chippewa Lake stops Wednesday morning to read The Gazette in Public Square in Medina. (Shirley Ware | Photo Editor)

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
LIVERPOOL TWP. — The Valley City/Liverpool Township Fire and Rescue Department put a new fire engine into service Monday.
Purchased for more than $325,000, the new engine is a 2008 KME Predator, complete with a 750-gallon water tank. The engine can carry 1,000 feet of 5-inch supply hose and can hold six firefighters [...]

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Odelia Amelia (nee Hack) Arcuri, 92, has passed away.
She was the dear mother of Martin E. (Jacquelyn), Mary (Joseph) Barberio and Michael J. (Mary); loving grandmother of Susan, Sandy, Kim, Jeff, Matt, Christian and Clair; and great-grandmother of four.
Mrs. Arcuri was preceded in death by her husbands, Martin E. Kallio and Anthony Arcuri, and siblings, [...]

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Chester Gager, 87, of Brunswick, passed away Monday, June 16, 2008, in Sandusky.
He was born April 6, 1921, in Cleveland. Mr. Gager was a machinist for White Motors. He was a veteran of the Army, serving in World War II.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Lucy (nee Lawrence) Gager of Brunswick; sons, [...]

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Janet I. “Jan” Helms, 76, of Chippewa Lake, passed away Monday, June 16, 2008, in Cleveland.
She was born Dec. 11, 1931, in Cleveland. Mrs. Helms was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church. She was a homemaker.
She was the loving wife of Don Helms, to whom she was married for 55 years; beloved mother [...]

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