By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
Those looking for a chance to win every four minutes will get an opportunity next month when numbers game Keno will start being offered at businesses throughout the state.
Thirteen Medina County businesses will offer Keno starting Aug. 4, the Ohio Lottery Commission’s Web site shows.
“It is an extra thing for people to [...]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
The Medina County Building Department reports a 69 percent drop in new home construction between May 2004 and May of this year. But the new housing market in the county still has a pulse.
Granite Golf, for instance, announced last month it will begin a project to add 48 cluster homes and 51 [...]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
Stuart Borden, who died Saturday at 86, was an avid participant in Medina County government and other aspects of community life.
Between 1964 and 1988, Borden, a Medina resident, kept an eye on happenings in Medina County while serving as general manager of The Gazette.

Sports Editor Betty Szudlo, who started with The [...]

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MEDINA — A city man was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Christopher J. Collier to five years in prison Monday for entering a man’s residence and robbing him.
Marlon Johnson, 33, of 308 W. Union St., No. 5, pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony robbery count in May for the Dec. 17 incident.
He also is charged [...]

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MEDINA — A 22-year-old Akron man was convicted Tuesday on robbery counts for taking $60 from a 13-year-old Wadsworth boy who was riding a scooter in December.
Deangelo McCraney was found guilty of one second- and one third-degree felony count of robbery after a two-day trial in Common Pleas Judge James L. Kimbler’s court.
Along with taking [...]

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Elfreda L. Johnson, 87, of Granger Township, passed away Tuesday, July 15, 2008, in Strongsville.
She was born April 28, 1921, in Ghent, Ohio. She was a music teacher for more than 32 years, the majority of which was at Buckeye schools. Mrs. Johnson was very active at Granger United Methodist Church, becoming the first female [...]

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Noel Scott Prell, 56, passed away Saturday, July 12, 2008, at Pine Valley Care Center in Richfield after a long illness. He had suffered multiple complications from diabetes for the past several years.
He was born Dec. 16, 1951, in Berea and was a 1970 graduate of North Royalton High School. Mr. Prell was self-employed [...]

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Richard Wagner, 83, of Escondido, Calif., passed away Saturday, June 28, 2008.
His wife, Claribell (Auker) Wagner, 80, passed away Thursday, July 3, 2008.
Both graduated from Medina High School and resided in Cleveland until moving to Escondido in 1967. Mr. Wagner was a Navy veteran serving on the USS Missouri at the time the treaty [...]

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