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Abbe Road widening planned

SHEFFIELD — The village has a $3.1 million plan to widen Abbe Road from four to six lanes north of Hoag Drive around the Cobblestone Square shopping center to just north of Detroit Road. The area is legendary for traffic snarls and has the most ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John Hunter

Mayor Grace recall vote will be Dec. 22

ELYRIA — The recall election deciding the fate of Mayor Bill Grace will take place on Dec. 22, City Council decided Wednesday night. All 10 members of City Council who were present voted for the date and there was no discussion of the fact it would be ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  19 Nov 2009

Automated trash pickup proposal considered by Elyria City Council

ELYRIA — Those automated garbage trucks that empty trash and recycling cans could be coming to 16,500 households in Elyria soon. The proposed new refuse program would save a projected $254,075 a year, according to James Skora, a consultant with GT ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Waste Management, Inc.

Decision affirms 2007 ruling made by local judge

ELYRIA — About 18 months ago, Lorain County Common Pleas Court Judge James Burge issued an opinion saying the way Ohio executed its prisoners wasn’t constitutional and that switching to the use of a single drug was a better alternative. At the time, ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  14 Nov 2009

County OKs cost-cutting measures

ELYRIA — County investment income dropped from $8.3 million in 2007 to $5.8 million last year and is expected to be $2.9 million this year, Lorain County Treasurer Daniel Talarek said Thursday. In an attempt to squeeze every dollar possible from the ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency

Group protests county kennel

ELYRIA — Lorain County’s dog kennel needs a checklist to assess the health of dogs to help ward off parvo and other diseases, according to a group called United for Animal Justice. Nearly 20 members of the group turned up at Thursday’s meeting of the ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  13 Nov 2009

Contractor testifies that Ross associate offered him Justice Center job for $224,000

ELYRIA — A contractor who served six months behind bars for bribery testified Thursday that he was “taken aback” when an associate of former Lorain County Commissioner Michael Ross told him he could get the $49.5 million Lorain County Justice Center ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Michael Ross

Vet attacked by dogs had tried to save the animals

EATON TWP. — Veterinarian Lisa Fox Wright said she was trying to save two Neopolitan mastiff Kane Corso mix dogs from traffic on busy state Route 82 on Wednesday afternoon when she was suddenly attacked. The dogs, a male weighing about 140 pounds and a ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: William Fox,  Jim Wright

2 large dogs still on the loose after attacking woman

EATON TWP. — Deputy dog warden Nelson Delgado called off his search at dusk Wednesday night for two large dogs that broke through a fence of a pen in the 36000 block of Royalton Road and attacked veterinarian Lisa Fox Wright who lives nearby. Fox, 25, ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jim Wright,  William Fox

Lorain Schools to try again with levy on February ballot; OKs retroactive pay hikes

LORAIN — The Lorain school board voted Wednesday night to start the process to put an emergency operating levy on the ballot in February in the wake of the Nov. 3 failure of the district’s 6.43-mill levy. School board members said public input is ...

From CINDY LEISE, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  12 Nov 2009

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