Chris Assenheimer | The Gazette
CLEVELAND — The Indians’ losing stench has reached a new level of stink.
Already sporting the American League’s worst record for the majority of the season, Cleveland arrived at another dubious milestone Monday night, now owning its worst mark of the season after a 6-3 loss to the White Sox.
At 31-47, the [...]

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Allison Wood | The Gazette
MEDINA — Government and business leaders have created a task force to address ways to streamline the planning and permit process to build in the county.
“We’ve never looked at how we processed everything through the system,” said County Commissioner Sharon Ray, who is a member of the task force. “We are [...]

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Maria Kacik | The Gazette
BRUNSWICK HILLS TWP. — Township residents will have the opportunity to participate in the Project Lifesaver program, a service that helps locate residents with autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease or Down’s syndrome who have wandered off.
Township trustees voted last week to bring Project Lifesaver to the township. Brunswick city has offered the [...]

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Maria Kacik | The Gazette
BRUNSWICK — The city’s annual July 3 fireworks are on for Friday. The show will be funded by donations received from businesses, organizations and private individuals.
“It was really great to see the community pull together for this,” John Piepsny, parks and recreation director, said Friday. He ordered an $8,500 fireworks show [...]

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John Gladden | The Gazette
MEDINA TWP. — Say you accidentally break Grandpa’s heirloom pocket watch or your favorite piece of jewelry. You take it to a shop where they examine it and say, “Yeah … we’ve got a guy who can fix that.”
Well, Don Mathis is the guy.
In 29 years in the jewelry business, he’s [...]

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John Gladden | The Gazette
WADSWORTH TWP. — Junior Silchuk lived by a pretty simple motto: Save everything, share everything.
His family keeps that ideal alive at the Silchuk Farm Museum — founded in 1964 and open by appointment — on Wall Road, just north of Rittman. Junior, who died in 2005, was a collector of all [...]

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Lisa Hlavinka | The Gazette
MEDINA — Giant Eagle plans to expand in the fall and recently bought out three leases in the adjoining strip to begin that expansion.
A spokesman from Giant Eagle, 870 N. Court St., declined to elaborate on the details of the project, saying the company would release more information in late 2009.
The [...]

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Maria Kacik | The Gazette
BRUNSWICK — Fire Chief Jim Baird is keeping his fingers crossed the city will get some federal stimulus funding for a new fire station. But he admits that getting money is going to be a long shot.
“But we would be remiss if we didn’t go for this,” he said.
Baird said $210 [...]

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Allison Wood | The Gazette
MEDINA — With the help of her mother and sister, Ashley Novince of Brunswick placed some kitchen and bathroom items she received in her brand-new apartment at the Medina Creative Housing development.
“We wanted this for Ashley her whole life,” said Vickie Novince about her 20-year-old daughter.
The complex, which has 12 single [...]

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