Sandra Fahning
Special to The Gazette
A true craft lover doesn’t put the craft “toys” away just because warm weather has arrived. Nope, a really crafty person will just change gears and keep going all year round. Knitters will probably switch from large wool projects to cotton yarn and small items like dishcloths. Quilters might choose to [...]

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John Benson
Special to The Gazette
When Thomas Treichel first read Neil Simon’s Tony Award-winning play (and subsequent Academy Award-winning movie) “Lost in Yonkers,” the Brunswick resident just knew he had to be involved in its local production.
That dream comes to fruition when the Brunswick Alumni Community Theatre stages its dinner theater show of “Lost In Yonkers,” [...]

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By SANDY CIUPAK
Special to The Gazette
2009 will be the first sugaring season at Maple Valley Farm without patriarch Gene Fulton, who passed away last March after a long illness.
With Gene in Hospice care, last year’s season was an emotional one for his wife, Grace, and the rest of the family, but they kept him involved [...]

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By SANDY CIUPAK
Special to The Gazette
Maple Valley Farm started out as a family operation, and that’s how it continues today. After the death of his father, Gene, Steve Fulton took on the farm’s major responsibilities, along with his wife, Beth. But the rest of the family plays a big role in the day-to-day operations.
Steve and [...]

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By Sandy Ciupak
Special to The Gazette
GUILFORD TWP. — The Fulton family’s Maple Valley Farm may be on the March Maple Madness Tour for the first time this year, but their maple sugaring experience goes back more than a century.
In the late 1800s, Isaac Fulton established the Guilford Township farm at 8701 Hubbard Valley Road. Today, [...]

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By Sandy Ciupak
Special to The Gazette
On Feb. 15, Ken Dudas of Brunswick was one of 150 new Eagle Scouts honored by the Greater Cleveland Council of the Boy Scouts of America in a ceremony at Cleveland’s Renaissance Hotel.
Unlike the other recipients of scouting’s highest honor, Dudas wasn’t wearing his uniform. Even if he knew [...]

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By John Benson
Special to The Gazette
And the Oscar goes to?
For 2005 Medina High School graduate Chad Courtney, who is currently a senior at Bowling Green State University majoring in film production, the eventual goal is attending the Academy Awards ceremony and perhaps hearing his name read as winning cinematographer.
While this dream may take years to [...]

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By John Benson
Special to The Gazette
And the Oscar goes to?
For 2005 Medina High School graduate Chad Courtney, who is currently a senior at Bowling Green State University majoring in film production, the eventual goal is attending the Academy Awards ceremony and perhaps hearing his name read as winning cinematographer.
While this dream may take years to [...]

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By Angela Huston
Special to The Gazette
Brownies. Fudge. Tortes. Caramel candy enrobed in chocolate.
The recent Red Cross of Medina County Chocolate Festival, held Feb. 7, might make it seem as though we tout its delectable goodness more during the month of love, but for many, no day is complete without chocolate, no occasion necessary to indulge.
Its [...]

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By JOHN BENSON
Special to The Gazette
Goodbye analog, hello digital.
The time is almost here for the Congress-mandated full analog-to-digital conversion of our television sets. In a nutshell, that’s what those annoying and incessant news crawls running during your favorite television show over the last year have been promoting.

(Merrill Rainey illustration)

While this news [...]

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