By LORRAINE BARNETT
Special to The Gazette
Plant: Staghorn sumac
Common names: Velvet sumac, Scarlet sumac
Latin name: Rhus typhina
Description: From summer green to deep red, the small beautiful sumac shrub is not poisonous, unlike its “poison” sumac relative, Toxicodendron vernix, formerly known as Rhus vernix.
Indeed, the staghorn sumac, now fabulous in November, has long graceful and soft fuzzy stems [...]

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By KRISTEN NOWAK WINN
Accent Editor
Whether you’re the head honcho at the office or still working your way up the corporate ladder, there are plenty of ways to do your part to go green.
Doing so can help employees take pride in their place of work and provide an environmentally friendly environment. And unlike sales calls or [...]

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By MIKE MILLER
OSU Extension Medina County
Whether it’s for health and nutrition, safety, sustainability or some other reason, consumers’ food-purchasing choices have widened. In the mix with local foods, organics and genetically modified products now comes country of origin labeling (COOL).
On Sept. 30, mandatory country of origin labeling became effective for meat and perishable agricultural commodities [...]

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By ANGELA HUSTON
Special to The Gazette
Seventy years ago Iva Arnold, Mrs. George Wolfe, Edith Bauer, Edith Yost and Mrs. Harley Rodock formed the Valley City Garden Club. Arnold served as the club’s first president, but each of the others also served in that capacity in the following years.
On Nov. 6, the club’s 20 existing members, [...]

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By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
INDEPENDENCE — Media members were instructed to arrive at Cleveland Clinic Courts at 1:15 p.m. Monday for interviews with Cavaliers players and coaches.
Mo Williams, the guy everyone wanted to talk to because Cleveland will host his former team, the Milwaukee Bucks, tonight at 7, didn’t finish his extra personal shooting drills [...]

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By ANGELA HUSTON
Special to The Gazette
Jane Arlene Diamond Ross, director of music ministries at First Christian Church in Wadsworth, has been named Cambridge Who’s Who Professional of the Year in Music Education.
While inclusion in Cambridge Who’s Who Registry is in itself an honor, only two male and two female members are annually awarded this [...]

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By Angela Huston
Special to The Gazette
The 18th annual Taste of Medina County on Oct. 16 combined 22 of the area’s finest restaurants with a host of people who were eager to taste their gourmet offerings of everything from delectable soups to decadent desserts at Weymouth Country Club.
This year’s participating restaurants were Buehler’s Fresh Food Catering, [...]

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By Angela Huston
Special to The Gazette
Let me say right off the bat I consider public restrooms a necessary evil, even knowing there is no way a civilized society could even think about functioning without them.
Still, I regard them with a jaundiced eye and enter only under conditions of duress.
My restroom experiences have run the [...]

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By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
BEREA — Browns players returning from a three-day weekend Monday were faced with the reality of a new set of goals for the remaining seven weeks of the season.
At 3-6 and three games behind AFC North leaders Pittsburgh and Baltimore, the playoffs are, at best, a long shot. But that doesn’t mean [...]

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By SCOTT PETRAK
Staff Writer
BEREA — Left guard Eric Steinbach had just finished working out in the pool Monday and was optimistic he’d be able to return to the starting lineup Monday night in Buffalo.
Steinbach, who revealed he tore an oblique muscle Nov. 2 against Baltimore, left that game in the third quarter and was [...]

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