By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
BEREA — Gary Baxter’s attempt at a historic comeback hit a roadblock Tuesday that could prove too difficult to overcome.
Baxter experienced swelling in the knee last week and underwent arthroscopic surgery Tuesday to remove cartilage. No timetable was given for recovery, but linebacker Antwan Peek had a similar surgery last week and [...]

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By LORRAINE BARNETT
Special to The Gazette
Plant: Globe thistle
Latin name: Echinops
Description: Globe thistle is perfectly round, prickly and fascinating. Many gardeners stay away from the plant, thinking it’s a weed. But, no. Echinops has evolved with hybridization into a beautiful, sometimes stately figure in the garden.
The perennial grows large 8-inch thistle-like leaves of grayish green [...]

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By MIKE MILLER
OSU Extension Medina County
The following information is supplied by Bob Hendershot, state grassland conservationist with USDA-NRCS Ohio.
Hay growers should know the quality of forages horses need to stay healthy and happy. While horse owners are being encouraged to get hay analyzed using an equine analysis, most need help interpreting the results of [...]

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By Kristen Nowak Winn
Accent Editor
For many families, it’s an unwritten summer covenant to vacation at Salt Fork State Park near Cambridge.
“We have a lot of families that have made it such a tradition that they come back year after year,” said Keith Cook, Salt Fork State Park Resort and Conference Center’s general manager. One couple [...]

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By Angela Huston
Special to The Gazette
July 14 was a picture perfect day for the 88 people who gathered at Fox Meadows County Club for the Hospice of Medina County 12th annual golf outing.
For the second year, presenting sponsor was Merrill Lynch. Financial adviser and event committee member, newly engaged David Archer (to Jill Hamaker), spoke [...]

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By Kristen Nowak Winn
Accent Editor
At Deer Creek Resort in Mt. Sterling, you can live like a president.
OK, so you probably won’t get a motorcade to drive you down I-71, but you can bunk in the Historic Harding Cabin, which was once a retreat for President Harding.
The scenic, serene lake hugs the shoreline near the [...]

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By Betty Carlisle
Special to The Gazette
“You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work” is one of the gems spoken by professor Randy Pausch during his last lecture given at Carnegie Melon University on Sept. 18, 2007.
Pausch, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, already had beaten the odds of [...]

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By BETTY CARLISLE
Special to The Gazette
When Baby Girl Mc-Fadden entered the world at 8 a.m. Aug. 8 weighing 8 pounds and rounding out the family of eight, what else could her parents do but give her the eight-letter name of Patricia to accompany her eight-letter surname?
“I have had a lot of eights in my life,” [...]

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Sitting on the sidewalk at the corner of North Court and West Friendship streets Monday, Miami University student Aaron Bramly, 21, paints the base of one of 56 lamp posts in downtown Medina. Bramly has an internship with Premier Environment Group in Lakewood, but does painting on the side. Through his painting work, he has [...]

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Wooster resident Denny Alsip, 56, searches for hidden treasures Monday at the Medina County Fairgrounds. Mainly searching for coins, Alsip said he was satisfied with his findings, but speculated it wouldn’t be enough to pay for his trip north. He explains there are “hot spots” at fairgrounds, such as areas where rides used to be [...]

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