By RICK NOLAND Assistant Sports Editor INDEPENDENCE — President-elect Barack Obama has people like media strategist David Axelrod, deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand and communications chief Robert Gibbs. LeBron James has Cavaliers coach Mike Brown, who continues to lobby for his small forward to receive NBA All-Defensive recognition in 2008-09. “He’s got to be one [...]

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By Sandy Ciupak
Special to The Gazette
MEDINA — Inside the Busta Sheet Metal shop, an unobtrusive building on West Liberty Street, artist Kevin Busta takes a break from transforming industrial shelving material into a coffee table and offers his visitor a chair of sorts: a stool reminiscent of a tractor seat, complete with an adjusting knob [...]

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By LISA HLAVINKA | Staff Writer
BRUNSWICK — Performing just in front of a small audience of fellow cheerleaders Monday night, The Rockets squad of Ohio Elite Cheerleading Inc. had enough enthusiasm to cheer at the National Championships on ESPN.
Founded in September, The Rockets squad is made up of eight cheerleaders who have physical and developmental [...]

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By JOHN GLADDEN | Staff Columnist
There’s one thing from my childhood that seems the same as always, yet as different as can be.
Growing up in rural Ohio in the 1970s and ’80s, about every man I knew carried a pocketknife. I came to recognize this by sound, as much as anything else. There was a [...]

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H. Winston Haskell, 83, passed away Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, at his home in Medina.
He was born Nov. 13, 1925, in Columbia, Mo. He spent his childhood until the age of 15 in Kuling and Wuhu, China, where his parents, Walter and Ethel Haskell, ran a school for children of missionaries. He returned to [...]

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Barbara Addison Crump Johnson, 66, of Southport, N.C., passed away Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, at Dosher Memorial Hospital.
She was born Aug. 21, 1942, in Flora Park, N.Y., to Everett Crump and Elisie Waywell Crump, and lived in Southport for the last seven years, having moved here from Medina. She was a member of St. Philip’s [...]

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Ruth Null, 91, of Elyria, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008, in Elyria.
She was born Dec. 31, 1916, in Cleveland to David and Sophie (nee Hilliger) Brain. For many years, she and her husband, Robert, owned and operated Null’s Restaurant in Medina. They retired to Tucson, Ariz., in 1978. [...]

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Randy D. Snyder, 41, of Erie, Colo., passed away Saturday Jan. 3, 2009, at Look Out Mountain in Boulder Falls, Colo.
He was born Nov. 10, 1967, in Fairview, Ohio. He was a truck driver. Mr. Snyder was a loving and kind-hearted man who thought of everyone before himself and was well liked by all [...]

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Jay Christopher Tight, 36, of Oldsmar, Fla., formerly of Medina and Chicago, passed away in a car accident on Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.
He is survived by his loving wife, Debbie (Ungerleider) Tight, native of Evanston, Ill.; beautiful children, Alexander, Madison and Jessica; parents, Jim and Betsy of Las Vegas; brother, Doug; and sister-in-law, Amy.
Memorial service: [...]

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