By JUDY A. TOTTS
Editorial Staff
Just because there’s snow piled up to the windowsill doesn’t mean you can’t welcome winter into your life with a little fun. Build a snowman. Or how about a snowball fight? In one of the many catalogs the mailman lugs to our door every holiday season, I spotted a gizmo used [...]

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By LISA HLAVINKA
Staff Writer
The word “boomers” was invented to describe babies born after World War II, but now it might be used to describe the whopping increase of senior citizens in Medina County.
From 1990 to 2000, Medina County’s senior population grew 32 percent, the largest increase out of seven Northeast Ohio counties, the Scripps Gerontology [...]

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Adeline R. Schira, 96, of Greenwich, Ohio, passed away Monday, Dec. 29, 2008, at Hillside Acres Nursing Home in Willard.
She was born Dec. 15, 1912, in Cleveland to Frank and Rose (Mraz) Fulnecky. Mrs. Schira lived in the Cleveland area until moving to Greenwich in 1979 after she retired. She worked as a secretary/bookkeeper [...]

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By RICK NOLAND
Assistant Sports Editor
CLEVELAND — For one night, anyway, Anderson Varejao, Ben Wallace and J.J. Hickson made sure the Cavaliers didn’t miss center Zydrunas Ilgauskas.
They also made sure the Cavaliers didn’t miss a beat at Quicken Loans Arena, dominating early and often as Cleveland improved to 17-0 at home with an impressive 117-92 victory [...]

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Robert E. Jackson, 73, passed away the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008, in Hospice care at The Inn at Medina after a protracted battle with cancer. He was with his loving wife, Elaine, at the time and had visited with virtually all of his immediate family and many friends in the few days [...]

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Rose (nee Smerglia) Koller, 92, passed away Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, at her residence at Medina Meadows.
Mrs. Koller was a longtime resident of Cleveland and lived in Medina County since 2000. She enjoyed being a homemaker and spending time with her family. She loved traveling and sharing her time as a volunteer for the [...]

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