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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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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A Medina Township resident’s words are having an impact in Washington amid the health care debate.
A letter Natoma Canfield wrote to President Barack Obama was read in a press briefing at the White House on Thursday and likely will make an appearance during the president’s talks with insurance executives.
The letter
In an interview Friday, Canfield said [...]

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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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MEDINA — Common Pleas Judge James L. Kimbler decided Thursday another judge will have to rule on whether he made a sentencing error in an attempted murder case.
Angelo Pirovolos, 58, formerly of Medina, is serving 12 years for attempted murder, felonious assault and having weapons while under disability and has asked to withdraw his no [...]

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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 [...]

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MEDINA — The 13-year-old boy accused of bringing a gun to Claggett Middle School faces three felony charges, police said.
The boy was charged Wednesday with theft of a firearm, a third-degree felony; carrying a concealed weapon, a fourth-degree felony; and illegal possession of a deadly weapon, a fifth-degree felony, police said.
“This is the first incident [...]

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