STRONGSVILLE — The plight of Natoma Canfield’s struggle with health care insurance and now leukemia was at the heart of President Barack Obama’s remarks Monday.
“I’m here because of Natoma. I’m here because of the countless others who have been forced to face the most terrifying challenges in their lives with the added burden of medical [...]

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President Barack Obama has wrapped up his speech at a recreation and senior center in Strongsville to rousing applause after being introduced by Connie Anderson, the sister of Natoma Canfield of Medina, who wrote the president she gave up her health insurance after it rose to $8,500 a year.
Obama gave Anderson a hug and kiss [...]

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MEDINA — A Medina County Animal Shelter employee found a stray golden retriever mix hobbling along Bell Road in Guilford Township last week.
The 3- to 4-year-old dog had a fever, an injury to her front leg and a piece of bone wedged in her gums.
This is where the Medina County Society for the Prevention of [...]

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MEDINA — Natoma Canfield is living out her health care fears.
The Medina Township resident, who was brought into the health care limelight when her letter was read during a White House press briefing last week, is in Medina Hospital undergoing a series of tests to see what caused her to become faint at work on [...]

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MEDINA — The county got a taste of spring weather Wednesday, but some court employees experienced a more tropical climate.
Probate and Juvenile Court Administrator Sharon Danko said a heating pipe carrying steam burst in Magistrate Matt Cain’s offices between the end of the workday Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
“It was wet everywhere because of the condensation,” [...]

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MEDINA — The city may get a facelift in part of the proposed Smith Road/Champion Creek redevelopment project.
At a joint meeting of City Council and Planning Commission members on Monday, officials listened to a presentation from two Cleveland-area consulting and engineering firms, City Architecture and Baker Inc., about the potential redevelopment project that would focus [...]

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HARRISVILLE TWP. — Portions of Garden Isle and Willow roads will be closed for several weeks this summer while crews straighten Garden Isle and replace the intersection at Willow Road.
The $343,925 project likely will begin the first week of July, said Dan Becker, civil engineer for the Medina County Highway Engineer’s Office.
Willow Road “is seeing [...]

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Brad Bournival
The Gazette
COLUMBUS — One state finals match ended with the smack of a hand on the mat, the other with a smack on the back. When it was all over on Saturday, Wadsworth had made history.
The Grizzlies became the first public school since 1977 to win a state wrestling title in Division I and [...]

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MEDINA — Gov. Ted Strickland watched as a machine whirred and spun, cutting, coating and shaping a prescription lens for a pair of glasses.
“It’s just amazing that you built this and it knows what to do,” he said. “It’s fascinating.”
Strickland visited start-up company NCRx Optical Solutions Inc. as part of a jobs tour through Northeast [...]

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CHATHAM TWP. — It used to be that you knew it was Chatham VFW Sugar Bush time when you saw sap buckets hanging from every maple tree in town — including the telephone poles as a joke.
Now, you can tell it’s time for the annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast when you see out-of-towners lined up hours [...]

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