By ALLISON WOOD
Staff Writer
GRANGER TWP. — Like her new teddy bear, Emma Young also wanted to be a princess.
After receiving the custom-made bear, the smiling 5-year-old yanked off its tiara and placed it on her own head before touching its sequin-dotted skirt.
Emma and about 80 other disabled children at Windfall School received bears [...]

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Terry L. Betz, 62, of Sharon Center, passed away Monday, Dec. 15, 2008, at Medina General Hospital.
He was born in Medina, and was a resident of Sharon Center for 31 years. Mr. Betz was employed for 27 years for Consolidated Freightways as a truck driver, retiring in 2004. He was a member of Teamsters Local [...]

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Capt. Richard Rex “Dick” Carlton, 77, of Colorado Springs, Colo., passed away Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, at The Court of Colorado Springs Alzheimer’s Care Facility in Colorado Springs with his wife, son and daughter-in-law by his side.
He was born April 6, 1931, in Medina, one of 10 children of Floyd and Lena Carlton. After [...]

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Mabel V. (nee Dominick) Maynard, 82, of Brunswick, passed away Monday, Dec. 15, 2008, in Medina.
She was born March 25, 1926, in Cleveland. She was a homemaker.
She is survived by her sons, Ralph T. (Gloria) Maynard of California and Richard J. (Susan) Maynard of Minnesota; daughters, Rose M. (Robert) McGuire of Brook Park [...]

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Jay O. Reynolds, 80, formerly of Valley City, went to his heavenly home Monday, Dec. 15, 2008.
He was born Nov. 25, 1928, in Spencer to Jay T. and Della Reynolds. He was a Valley City resident from 1942 to 1988, and then moved to Medina and just this March, he moved to Sullivan Township. [...]

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Lloyd Treleaven, 86, of Medina, passed away Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008, in Medina.
He was born July 19, 1922, in Columbus. Mr. Treleaven was a retired chemical engineer/account executive at Columbia Chemical. He was chairman of the Rubber Group in Akron and a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Medina. He was a veteran of [...]

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Edith “Belle” Ziegler of Takoma Park, Md., passed away Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008.
She was the beloved mother of Dolores and Doug Zeigler; grandmother of Angelina Ziegler; sister of Carmen, Reginald A. Campbell Sr., and Roy, Dorothy and Orville Thompson; aunt of Reginald A. Campbell, Joanne Blake, Laura Tobak and Samuel, Tony, Bryan, and Georgiana Thompson; [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA — A woman, who reportedly used heroin while her 2-year-old daughter was in the house, is facing several charges pending an investigation, police said.
Police were told by an anonymous caller at 9:09 p.m. Tuesday a woman was overdosing in her apartment in the 500 block of North State Road and her [...]

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By ALBERT GRINDLE
Staff Writer
SULLIVAN TWP. — Sometimes you have to win ugly, but on Tuesday night, Black River’s boys basketball team didn’t care.
All that mattered was the zero hanging in the loss column.
Playing sloppy and neck-and-neck with much-improved Brookside, David Gentry and Miguel Quintela took over late to give the Pirates a 62-56 Patriot Athletic [...]

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By BRIAN DULIK
Staff Writer
BEREA — The focal points of the Browns’ offensive and defensive lines are headed to Hawaii.
Left tackle Joe Thomas and nose tackle Shaun Rogers were named to the AFC Pro Bowl team Tuesday, giving Cleveland multiple selections for just the second time in 14 years.
Thomas was voted onto the roster as a [...]

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