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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The courthouse is still steamy
March 11th, 2010 · No Comments
A plan for the future
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments
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 [...]
Straightening things out
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments
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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Making history
March 8th, 2010 · No Comments
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 [...]
Governor sees for himself
March 6th, 2010 · No Comments
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 [...]
Stacks and stacks of flapjacks
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments
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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Teens learn about the cost of Holocaust
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments
YORK TWP. — “I’ve been your age, but I never really was your age,” Gita Frankel told a group of Buckeye teenagers on Wednesday, her Polish accent hinting at her past.
“I don’t know where to begin,” she told them, but slowly she began to tell her story.
Frankel is a holocaust survivor. Born in Poland, she [...]
A. Schulman to close plant, lay off 40
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
SHARON TWP. — A. Schulman Inc. will close its color additive plant on Wolf Creek Trail and lay off 40 workers in the process.
A. Schulman, headquartered in Akron, will close the Sharon plant by Aug. 31 as a result of the recent acquisition of McCann
Color, also a color additive company, in North Canton, spokeswoman Jennifer [...]
Snow-covered highways take toll
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments
A Chippewa Lake man died Friday after he lost control of his vehicle and slid into oncoming traffic on state Route 18 near Beach Road in Granger Township.
Trooper Dan Kumor of the Medina post of the Ohio Highway Patrol said Robert Krause, 38, was driving his 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe east on Route 18 when he [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Fatal accident on Route 18
February 26th, 2010 · 9 Comments
GRANGER TWP. — A Chippewa Lake man, traveling east on state Route 18, died Friday after his Chevrolet Tahoe slid across the highway into oncoming westbound traffic, the Ohio Highway Patrol reported.












