Lisa Hlavinka | The Gazette
WESTFIELD TWP. — Westfield Fire & Rescue Fire Chief Jack Snoddy resigned unexpectedly Friday.
Snoddy sent a handwritten, one-sentence resignation letter to township trustees Friday morning without an explanation for his departure.
Two 911 calls went unanswered in between trustees receiving the letter and a subsequent emergency meeting called Friday by trustees to [...]

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Lisa Hlavinka | The Gazette
LODI —A 67-year-old village resident died Monday after the car in which she was a passenger hit a light pole on Medina Street.
Sandra Trigg, of 106 House St., was pronounced dead at 4:40 p.m. at Lodi General Hospital. She was the passenger in an Oldsmobile driven by her husband, Kenneth Trigg, [...]

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Maria Kacik | The Gazette
MEDINA — Five months ago, brothers Randy and Jeff Napier never thought twice about food safety while sitting down to a meal.
All that changed in January when their 80-year-old mother, Nellie Napier, died after being infected with a strain of salmonella linked to contaminated peanut butter.
The Napiers have spent the months [...]

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Ralph Richard Young, 82, of Inverness, Florida passed away Saturday, April 25, 2009
A member of the greatest generation, he proudly served in the U.S. Navy during WWII aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Sargent Bay, in the Pacific Theater.
He married sweetheart Mary Delores Fincannon in 1945 and devoted his entire working career to the Goodyear Tire [...]

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Sandra Kay Trigg, 67, of Lodi, passed away Monday, April 27, 2009 in Lodi, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. She was born June 13, 1941 in Lodi to Clarence C. and Esther Mae Bowers George and was a lifetime resident of the Lodi area.
She married Kenneth E. Trigg on August 17, 1957.
He survives [...]

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Maria Kacik | The Gazette
BRUNSWICK — Seven candidates have filed to run for the three City Council at-large seats that will be decided in the November general election, so voters will have to narrow the field down to six in the May 5 primary.
Brunswick’s charter states no more than two people can run for each [...]

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Mackenzie Leigh Thompson, 17, of Charleston, Tennessee, and formerly from Medina, departed this life Friday, April 24, 2009 at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee with her grandmother, Sarah and her Aunt, Sophie, by her side. She was born December 29, 1991 in Medina County and had lived their all her life.
Mackenzie was a [...]

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Richard R. Schirripa, 74, of Medina, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 in Medina. He was born February 8, 1935 in Cleveland.
Mr. Schirripa was the owner and operator of Sharp Tool Service. He was a member of Our Lady of Grace Church in Hinckley. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict.
Survivors include his [...]

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Rita M. Weinbroer McCallister, 86, of Grafton, passed away Sunday, April 26, 2009 in Medina.
She was born October 10, 1922, in Grafton, to Albert and Ella Weigel.
Rita resided in Valley City for over 50 years and lived in Grafton for the past 32 years. She and her late husband Don enjoyed spending their [...]

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Lawrence Thompson Mann, 101, of Seville, died Friday, April 24, 2009 at the Apostolic Christian Home in Rittman. He was born October 4, 1907 to Paul Dennis and Martha Seale Mann in Ruggles, the second of two sons.
He graduated from Ruggles Ohio High School in 1925 and from Ashland College in 1929. He received [...]

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