By MONA JACOBSON
Special to The Gazette
Human beings are created for fellowship. We play in groups. We marry a partner. We live and worship in communities. One of our greatest desires as humans is to connect. God created us that way so we would desire connection with him and each other. The best moments of life [...]

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By BETTY CARLISLE
Special to The Gazette
GRANGER TWP. — The congregation of Connection Church has built its corner stone on the belief that it is the people who become the church - not the bricks and mortar of the building where they gather.
So when it was time to construct a permanent facility at 2524 Medina Road, [...]

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By JOHN BENSON
Special to The Gazette
Contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter Michelle Tumes is at a crossroads.
While the artist enjoys performing live and touring her music, there’s a new side to the industry that has sparked her interest. The Australian native and Los Angeles resident is currently writing material for feature films. In fact, her song “Fly [...]

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By Kristen Nowak Winn
Accent Editor
HARRISVILLE TWP. — As Jim Kibler sketched on the dry erase board propped up in the back of the Log Cabin Shop museum, a room full of about 20 men watched intently.
The day’s lesson: Tool sharpening.
“The first thing you want to consider is the angle of the chisel,” Kibler said, during [...]

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By JOHN BENSON
Special to The Gazette
If a sportsmen’s show is for boys and their toys, the Cleveland Women’s Show, which makes its Cleveland debut Sept. 13 and 14 at the I-X Center, is for girls and their pearls.
“It’s a woman’s show, almost like a lifestyle show where a woman can come and shop, maybe get [...]

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By JOHN BENSON
Special to The Gazette
When Medina resident Lynn Bingham looks at the work of U.S. Army Combat artist Frank Thomas, he feels a sense of pride and patriotism.
It’s for these reasons that he’s excited about Thomas’ upcoming exhibit from 6 to 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, [...]

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By Judy A. Totts
Religion Editor
The photos are black-and-white old, the edges a little crinkled from shifting around in the big box my mother keeps on the linen closet shelf. Most of them are family pictures, like the one of Rusty, the spaniel we inherited from my aunt and uncle, standing beside his doghouse. I stand [...]

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By JOHN BENSON
Special to The Gazette
Squeezed by life.
In a nutshell that’s the story behind Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece play “The Glass Menag-erie,” which runs at the Cleveland Play House from Sept. 17 through Oct. 5 at the Drury Theatre.
The production, which premiered in 1944, revolves around a 1930s St. Louis family pulled and pushed like [...]

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City resident Paul Stafinski helps a friend out with a home repair job in the pouring rain Friday on South Huntington Street in Medina. Stafinski said his friend is getting ready to sell her home. “There’s just a few things that need to be done,” he said. (Andrew Dolph | Staff Photographer)

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By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
BRUNSWICK — This week, the Brunswick defense did not rest until the verdict was in.
The Blue Devils allowed just 3 yards total offense and no first downs in the second half Friday night, helping them steamroll Nordonia 30-7 in Northeast Ohio Conference cross-division football action.
“We can talk about the offense [...]

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