YORK TWP. — Buckeye Local Schools’ vocational coordinator Phil Bolva said he has “created a monster” — a benevolent one, at least.
Five years ago, he started a collection drive for the Coats for Kids of Northeast Ohio program with the Occupational Work Experience class he supervises. He said in the first year the class received [...]

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MEDINA — Angelo Pirovolos has been in prison for more than a year after pleading no contest to shooting his brother-in-law in April 2008.
Now, he’s asking to change his plea and may be able to because of an Ohio Supreme Court decision covering sentencing language.
In September 2008, Pirovolos, 57, of Medina, pleaded no contest to [...]

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LAFAYETTE TWP. — The Medina County Animal Shelter received a makeover this year thanks to donations willed to it by two area residents.
Dog Warden Del Saffle said the shelter received a total of $84,000 from Violet Blair of Wadsworth and Anna Schindelholz of Medina in the last two years.
He said he didn’t know the two [...]

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GRANGER TWP. — An autumn drive at twilight through winding township roads past plowed farmlands and leafless forests can be spooky enough.
One township resident is looking to take “scary” in Granger Township to a new level.
Brian Codding has turned a building on his family’s Wilbur Road farm into the Medina Haunted Barn — a 4,000-square-foot [...]

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GUILFORD TWP. — Glass and solder. You might not think two such simple components could add up to endless possibilities, but when it comes to the art of stained glass, they do.
Of course, it helps to add a third ingredient, which is know-how, and that’s where Brian Hewit comes in. He’s been offering stained glass [...]

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LODI — No one was injured when about 19 cars derailed on the CSX tracks near Railroad Street on Wednesday afternoon.
Fire Chief Andrew Wurstner said CSX officials told him a mechanical
failure caused the accident, which occurred just after 4 p.m.
“Right now railroad recovery crews are investigating and haz-mat is down there,” he said around 8 [...]

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MEDINA — Jennifer Okoye broke into tears and began wailing during a candlelight vigil Tuesday night for her 7-year-old son, Tashawn, who died in a fire the morning before.
A sea of more than 150 faces, including many children, sang “Amazing Grace” as the Okoye family approached them. Kids placed handwritten letters, pictures, stuffed animals and [...]

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MEDINA — Police tried to climb the stairs to reach Tashawn Okoye in
his second-floor bedroom early Monday morning, but the flames were too intense.
Sometime amid the chaos of flames and smoke, Jennifer Okoye, 31, the mother of the five children inside the apartment, jumped out a window holding her 4-year-old son. She then caught her [...]

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MEDINA — A 7-year-old boy died early this morning after an officer pulled him from his burning second-floor bedroom at 223 W. Smith Road.
Four other children along with their mother jumped from windows or escaped the house before authorities arrived, police said.
Tashawn Okoye was rescued from his bed by Sgt. Nathan Simpson and carried to [...]

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Crews from the Medina County Sanitary Engineers Office work on a broken water main Friday near Columbia Road just north of Boston Road in Liverpool Township. “We really don’t know what caused it,” said Dave Barefield, with the Sanitary Engineers Office. “We got a call this morning and they said there was water coming up.” [...]

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