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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LIVERPOOL TWP. — The Medina County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man who allegedly has been scamming people throughout the area since September, including Tuesday in Liverpool.
The Sheriff’s Office reported Lamar Johnson, 31, allegedly has been running a con that involves arranging for the purchase of motorcycles and other vehicles via Craigslist.org and then [...]

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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 — Summa Health System will build a 24-hour emergency facility at its Lake Medina location on state Route 18 and expand its Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital emergency department as part of a $65 million plan to broaden its emergency services network.
The Lake Medina emergency department, slated to open in late 2011, will be a free-standing facility [...]

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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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BRUNSWICK — City Manager Bob Zienkowski plans to resign, effective May 7, and take up a new job as township manager in Radnor Township, Pa.
He presented a letter Monday night to City Council formally announcing his departure.
“It’s probably one of the toughest decisions I’ve had to make in my career,” Zienkowski, who also serves as [...]

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ASHLAND — A volunteer Buckeye High School wrestling coach was charged with OVI and child endangerment Saturday night on his way home from the state wrestling tournament in Columbus with a 16-year-old wrestler.
The student also reportedly had been drinking.
Matthew A. Dalgleish, 34, of 3528 Abbeyville Road, York Township, was stopped on Interstate 71 at 8:56 [...]

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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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