By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
BEREA — Receiver Donte Stallworth was scheduled to undergo an MRI on his quadriceps, which suggests he won’t be able to play Sunday night against the Steelers. The results won’t be released until Wednesday.
The Browns originally reported that Stallworth injured his groin in pregame warmups, but coach Romeo Crennel said further examinations [...]

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The Oaks is partnering with Church at the Lake for the Andrew Lawrence Benefit from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at The Oaks Restaurant on Chippewa Lake.
Lawrence, seriously injured in an automobile accident in mid-July with a traumatic brain injury, is now in rehabilitation at Edwin Shaw in Akron after a month in [...]

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By Korinne Caniglia
OSU Extension, Medina County
Medina County families grow a little richer each day.
The Ohio State University Extension teaches life skills that builds stronger families and communities with economic benefits in the millions.
The Ohio State University’s Presi-dent Gordon Gee agreed Extension’s results are priceless during a recent stop in Medina. His tour fulfilled a [...]

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By Angela Huston
Special to The Gazette
The American Red Cross of Medina County held its fourth annual VIP Roast at Williams on the Lake on Aug. 29. This year’s honoree targeted for a lot of fun-loving ridicule was Mark Dorman, president of Dorman-Farrell, whose near-obsession with golf fueled the event’s roasters with more than ample material.
From [...]

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By BETTY CARLISLE
Special to The Gazette
MTV, Fox Network, CNN 24-hour news, music videos, the first generation of computer, video and arcade games, Teddy Ruxpin, Trivial Pursuit, boom boxes, Super Mario Brothers and The Simpsons were the sweet sprinklings of technology over the smorgasbord of childhood experiences during the ’80s that would later emerge as the [...]

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By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer

SHARON TWP. — Township Trustee Jim Dudek died Saturday at 61, less than a month following the death of Trustee Emil Bolas.
Ray Lurtz is now the township’s only trustee.
“I lost a friend as well as a colleague,” said Lurtz, who worked with Dudek for more than 20 years as a trustee [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA — He picked the wrong time to call for “a 50.”
While police were arresting two city residents on outstanding warrants, Brian Leiby, 31, of West Salem, called their home, allegedly to buy cocaine, while the city’s drug task force was still there, police said.
Brandi Humphrey, 23, of 322 W. Liberty St., [...]

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Jacob Canedy (center) shows classmates Erin Venus (left) and Aiden Camp the name he put on top of his “I’m Me, I’m Special” booklet Monday afternoon at The Nurtury in Medina. Jacob told fellow kindergartners Austin is his middle name. (Shirley Ware | Photo Editor)

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Nada J. Anthony, 60, of Medina, born Nov. 16, 1947, passed away peacefully Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, surrounded by loved ones after a courageous battle against pancreatic cancer.
She loved the outdoors, camping, playing cards, Yahtzee, puzzles and most of all, time with her family. She dearly loved her husband, children and grandchildren, and [...]

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Robert Eugene “Gene” Brubaker, 77, passed away peacefully Monday, Sept. 8, 2008, at Akron City Hospital following a brief illness.
He was born June 23, 1931, in Ashland and resided in Lodi for the past 32 years. Mr. Brubaker was a retired regional manager for BF Goodrich Tire Co. with 34 years of service, followed [...]

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