By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
SEVILLE — Three employees of Blair Rubber Co. were taken to Medina General Hospital with minor respiratory complaints and skin burns Thursday morning after a chemical started smoking in the production area.
About 200 pounds of a chlorine-based compound were delivered in a cardboard box and started to produce smoke after it was [...]

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By LISA HLAVINKA
Staff Writer
LIVERPOOL TWP. — The Valley City Fire Department will mix traditional with trendy this weekend during the 74th annual Valley City Street Fair.
The fair begins tonight at 6 and runs through Sunday evening. A section of the street in front of the fire station at 3700 Center Road will be blocked off [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
CLEVELAND — Medina County Transit and the Brunswick Transit Authority will together receive about $460,000 of unspent federal transit funds if the executive committee of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency approves a Thursday recommendation.
This amount is higher than the approximately $125,000 originally proposed for the county, said Stephen D. Hambley, county [...]

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By CATERINA GUINTA
Staff Intern
WADSWORTH — Four months ago, talks about a community building project surfaced and gained support, but the real test will be at the ballot.
In March, Collaborative Partners presented a survey of residents that said 80 percent would support an affordable community center that would offer health, fitness, senior and educational facilities and [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA — Incoming freshman Julia Arnold had anxious butterflies in her stomach Thursday morning.
But the day, dedicated solely to freshman orientation, helped calm those first-day jitters.
“I was very nervous … of it being crowded and getting lost,” said Arnold, 14, who bonded with a new friend, Natalie Antonio, 14, during their orientation [...]

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MEDINA — Thursday was the deadline to place issues and levies on the Nov. 4 ballot. The following requests were filed with the Medina County Board of Elections:
– Medina County Health Department, replacement levy and decrease in operating requirements, 0.27-mill with reduction of 0.03 mill for 10 years;
– Brunswick Hills Township, 3-mill, five year [...]

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Brunswick Hills Township
– A resident in the 950 block of Caxton Lane reported at 12:15 p.m. Aug. 13 someone stole a Journey CD from his car between 1:30 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. The car was locked and there were no signs of forced entry.
Hinckley Township
– At 7:25 p.m. Aug. 13, a resident in the 2400 [...]

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CHEERS: to Lafayette Township cancer survivor Dale Turnbull, who donated his long brown hair to Wigs for Kids at Saturday’s “Rock Your Locks” cut-a-thon sponsored by VCS Salon and Spa in Medina. The 48-year-old biker lost most of his hair during chemotherapy and radiation treatment for Hodgkin’s disease in 2001. However, it was the sight [...]

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Richard P. Campbell, 59, of Valley City, passed onto his heavenly home Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.
He was born April 8, 1949, in Palo Alto, Calif., to Lorenzo and Bernadine Campbell. He grew up in Parma and graduated from Valley Forge High School and attended Cleveland State University. Mr. Campbell worked for the former Jones & [...]

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Irene Easton, 92, of Medina, passed away Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, at Medina Village Retirement Community.
She was born in Guilford Township and was a lifetime Medina County resident. Mrs. Easton was a secretary, retiring from Lance & Co. Insurance of Medina. She was a member of Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ohio State Grange, Medina Moose [...]

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