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Sobriety checkpoint on Pearl Road today
BRUNSWICK — The Medina County OVI Task Force will conduct a sobriety checkpoint today, beginning at 3 p.m., on U.S. Route 42 (Pearl Road), north of state Route 303, in the city of Brunswick.
The checkpoint will held in conjunction with nearby saturation patrols to aggressively combat impaired driver related injury and fatal crashes, said Brunswick …Read More
Officers sought for Brunswick Hills Police Department
Andrew Davis and David Knox | The Gazette
Brunswick Hills Township trustees have hired a part-time police officer and are planning to add as many as three more.
Township Police Chief Sharon MacKay said she asked for the part-time officers to bolster the force going into summer.
MacKay said the township now has nine full-time officers — …Read More
Memorial Day parades and activities
Memorial Day weekend activities begin today at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery with area Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts adorning the graves of each veteran with memorial flags.
The public is invited to attend a grave-decorating ceremony, starting at 10 a.m. The entrance to the cemetery — one of only two national veterans cemeteries in …Read More
Honoring the fallen and helping a wounded warrior
The Wounded Warrior memorial, which commemorates veterans who have been injured in battle, graces the front of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5137 in Medina. (ANDREW DAVIS / GAZETTE)
Andrew Davis | The Gazette
Marine 2nd Lt. Nick Vogt was considered clinically dead.
A roadside bomb in Afghanistan had pulverized his left leg and mutilated his …Read More
Local beekeeper disagrees with ‘disappearance’ of honeybees
Laura Metzo, left, of North Ridgeville, and her mother, Karen Berger, of South Euclid, search for the queen honeybee in an observational hive at Root Candle, 623 W. Liberty St., Medina. The bees, which keeper Kim Flottum cares for, are let in and out through the adjacent window. There are hundreds of bees in …Read More
Convicted killer Steven Cepec sentenced to death
Convicted murderer Steven Cepec was sentenced to death Thursday for killing a 73-year-old Chatham Township man during a home invasion almost three years ago.
Cepec, 44, is the first person to be sentenced to death in Medina County in 60 years and will be the only Medina County resident on Ohio’s death row.
A jury found Cepec …Read More