Judy A. Totts | The Gazette
MONTVILLE TWP. — Clusters of tomatoes, sun-warm and heavy on the vine. Pea pods thick as your thumb, their contents sweetly green on the tongue. Leaf lettuce. Corn-on-the-cob. Pole beans. A veritable vegetable Eden.
Not everyone has space to plant a few potatoes. But anyone with 10 bucks, a taste for [...]

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Maria Kacik | The Gazette
BRUNSWICK — Planning Old Fashioned Days will be a bit stickier this year. Stacks of planning documents and a computer containing festival arrangements were stolen from the vehicles of two festival committee members Monday night.
“It starts in three weeks. This is something we do for the community. In the end, we’re [...]

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Maria Kacik | The Gazette
BRUNSWICK HILLS TWP. — A 39-year-old Brunswick woman called 911 Saturday night to report she had been abducted by four Mexican men, but later said she entered and got out of their car on her own.
Police reported:
The woman called 911 at 11:58 p.m. Saturday and said she had been abducted by [...]

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Allison Wood | The Gazette
MEDINA —While in Hawaii, Shaun Cleland typed up a fake suicide note, which he placed on the body of David Heinricht after killing him in Brunswick, County Prosecutor Dean Holman asserted during opening arguments Tues-day.
“This was planned,” he told the jury.
Cleland, 28, is accused of strangling Heinricht, 19, to death in [...]

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Scott Petrak
The Gazette
BEREA — The calendar just flipped to June. Training camp doesn’t start for nearly two months. The regular-season opener is Sept. 13.
Yet during a break in minicamp last week, linebacker Eric Barton was alone on the sideline with an assistant coach and five white garbage cans representing the offensive line. The coach would [...]

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Shaun Bennett
The Gazette
AVON — Drew Saylor’s baseball career has been filled with movement.
The Wadsworth High standout began his college career at Cincinnati and finished at Kent State.
He was then drafted by the Florida Marlins and played in their farm system in 2006, signed and played for the Houston Astros Single-A team in 2007 and played [...]

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