By BRAD BOURNIVAL
Staff Writer
SOLON — What would the Northern Ohio Junior PGA Section qualifier be without a little extra golf?
For three years in a row, the boys have gone into extra sessions. It didn’t happen this time.
Instead, the ladies decided to take center stage with a playoff between North Lima’s Ariel Witmer, Copley’s Carly Arison [...]

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By BRIAN DULIK
Staff Writer
The NBA’s free agent signing period began at exactly 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
Less than 12 hours later, the Cavaliers had been shut out of the market for all of the top available players.
Salary cap strapped Cleveland was one of several title contenders left on the sideline after a series of signings around the [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
MEDINA — Nancy Eader, a grower at Liberty Gardens, was working in the greenhouse about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when she heard a woman yelling at the back of the property.
“A neighbor said there’s an alligator over there,” she said. “It then came toward me, so I ran to get the phone.”
The [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA — After a months-long search, police Monday afternoon caught the 17-year-old suspect in a shooting at Union Square Apartments.
At 1:15 p.m. April 25, William Deaver allegedly shot at two 20-year-old men, police said. No one was injured, and police have said they believe the shooting was drug related.
“(Deaver) supposedly fled to [...]

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WESTFIELD TWP. — Longtime Cloverleaf Middle School Principal Ron Tisher soon will move next door to lead the high school.
“It was time for a new challenge,” he said Wednesday. “It’s a bigger building, the kids are older and there’s double the staff.”
Tisher served as middle school principal for 18 years and previously was the assistant [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA — Filling a two-year vacancy, Richard Forney is stepping in as Medina City School District’s new assistant superintendent.
Not only will Forney — former director of administrative services for the Cuyahoga Heights School District — focus on overseeing building operations and developing high school programming with the high school administrative team, but [...]

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The Cloverleaf Recreation Center is hosting one of 19 Cavaliers Summer 2008 Basketball Camps Monday through Friday. About 40 youngsters signed up for the camp. Most were from the county, but some were from out of state. Sponsored by the National Basketball Academy, campers ages 7 to 16 take part in skill-development stations such as [...]

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Marjorie Sembla Christensen, 86, of Medina, passed away Tuesday, July 8, 2008, at the Cleveland Clinic.
She was born June 11, 1922, in Laurium, Mich., to Oscar and Mary Sembla. Prior to moving to Medina, she resided for many years in Edmore, Mich., where she served as a librarian at the Home Township Library and [...]

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Thomas A. Keiller, 79, of Medina, passed away Wednesday, July 9, 2008, in Cleveland.
He was born March 27, 1929, in New Haven, Conn. Mr. Keiller retired as national sales trainer for Hitachi Corp. He was former president of the Jefferson Point Association for many years. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War.
Mr. [...]

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Mary B. (nee Pazderak) Spisak, 87, passed away Tuesday, July 8, 2008.
She was the beloved wife of John W.; loving stepmother and aunt of John (Suzanne), Julianne (George) Keco and Joan (Ken) Sidon; grandmother of two; great-aunt of five; and great-great-aunt of four.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Julia.
Funeral Mass: 10 a.m. Friday [...]

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