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LODI — “What words start with an ‘F’ and are number words?” first-grade teacher Kay Rickard asked a classroom of parents and students Thursday night.
They were all looking at a wall filled with words grouped by letter. On the left side of the wall were the two correct words — four and five.
Some of the […]

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MEDINA — A jury acquitted a city man of rape Tuesday but convicted him of a less serious charge for an incident against a 4-year-old girl two years ago.
Mitchell A. Reinhardt, 40, of 650 Smokerise Drive, was convicted of gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony, after a week-long trial. He could spend as many as […]

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It’s about time for retirement, said Don Sommer, who co-owned LE Sommer and Sons in Seville.
“Don Sommer has been in business a long time and it was a good opportunity for him to retire,” said Al Holdren, president of Town & Country Co-op, an Ashland-based agricultural cooperative. “We thought (his store) was a really good […]

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HARRISVILLE TWP. — Firefighters from Lodi and surrounding areas fought a fire at 8164 Vandemark Road for about 6½ hours Tuesday.

Assistant Fire Chief Andrew Wurstner of the Lodi department said a wood-burning stove caught fire in the kitchen at about 8 a.m. The fire crawled up the walls and burned most of the roof.
“It just […]

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MEDINA — Medina County Prosecutor Dean Holman has been elected president of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association for 2008.

The professional organization helps educate and train prosecuting attorneys on new laws, prosecuting techniques and other issues of criminal and civil law.
“I hope to help continue doing a fine job,” Holman said Tuesday.
One topic he said […]

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- At 11:04 a.m. Friday, $10.18 worth of gas was stolen from Stop-N-Go, 1033 S. Court St.

- A car stereo was stolen from a vehicle in the 200 block of Howard Street between 3:15 and 3:45 a.m. Nov. 28.
- During an unannounced home visit from Medina County Job and Family Services to the 875 Branch […]

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- An explosion slightly damaged a vehicle driving in the 500 block of Lee Lore Drive in Chippewa Lake at about 10 p.m. Thursday.
When the vehicle drove near a 2-liter bottle filled with toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil on the edge of a driveway, the bottle blew up.
Four boys admitted to making the bottle […]

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Mona C. Lemmon, 96, of Medina, passed away Monday, Dec. 3, 2007, in Medina.
She was born Dec. 1, 1911, in Salina, Pa. Mrs. Lemmon was a retired registered nurse for RMI Organizations. She attended Crosspointe Community Church.
She is survived by her son, Charles R. (Suzanne) Lemmon Jr. of Medina; stepgranddaughters, Missy (Brian) Rieg, Deanna (Matt) […]

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Harry E. Orr III, 47, of Medina, passed away suddenly Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, in Medina.
He was born March 29, 1960, in Pompton Plains, N.J. He was a 1978 graduate of Medina High School and attended Baldwin-Wallace College, where he played four years on the football team, being a member of the National Championship team. […]

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