Garfield Elementary School third-graders (from left) Skyler Rzepka, 8, Morgan Yanke, 9, and Maia Virgei, 8, excitedly approach the buffet at Pizza Hut in Medina. Fifty-one students were rewarded Thursday with a limo ride and pizza lunch for selling 20 or more items such as cookie dough for a fundraiser. Mary Jo Addleman of the […]

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MEDINA — A bill increasing the penalty for those convicted of making threats against schools or universities is due to be signed into law by Gov. Ted Strickland.
Sponsored by state Rep. William Batchelder, R-Medina, those who are accused of inducing panic at an educational institution automatically will be charged with a second-degree felony punishable by […]

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BRUNSWICK — Mayor Dale Strasser still plans to form an ad hoc funding advisory committee, but he cannot use city resources to do so, city Law Director Ken Fisher said.
Strasser said last week he wanted to form a citizens committee to advise council on upcoming funding issues in the wake of November’s failed income tax […]

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MEDINA — The North Court Street Sherwin-Williams is one of seven Northeast Ohio stores that inappropriately handled hazardous waste between 2003 and 2005, resulting in a $50,000 penalty for the company from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
The waste, which was improperly labeled, was sent to Vexor Technology Inc., 955 W. Smith Road, which received […]

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The Gazette’s Judy A. Totts is the winner of the Medina County Historical Society’s 2007 Northrop Heritage Award for Historic Preservation.
The award, presented this month at the society’s annual meeting, recognized Totts for her more than 15 years of chronicling local history. In addition to writing news features and her regularly appearing column “Time Frames,” […]

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Hinckley Township
- Several golf carts were reported vandalized at Skyland Golf Course, 2085 Center Road, on Dec. 7. The course closed for the season Nov. 30, and several carts were discovered vandalized and left throughout the course the morning of Dec. 7.

Lodi
- A former resident of the trailer park in the 200 block of Medina […]

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Dustin Edward Bajerski, 17, of Bellevue, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007, after being involved in a motor vehicle accident.
He was born Dec. 18, 1989, in Carteret County, N.C. Dustin was a junior at Monroeville High School and was a visual communications design student at EHOVE Career Center. He was […]

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Robert L. Shirley, 80, of Medina, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007, under the care of Hospice at The Inn at Medina.
He was born Jan. 20, 1927, in Columbus. Mr. Shirley was a tool and die maker, retiring from General Motors. He enjoyed his family and photography. He served in the Navy during World War […]

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Numerous consumers, dairy farmers and public health organizations oppose the use of artificial hormones used in dairy products. Yet Ohio regulators may prohibit our right to know and not allow dairy farmers to label “no synthetic hormones.”

In 1994, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the genetically manipulated bovine growth hormone, or rBGH, […]

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Ruth C. Turk, 87, of Valley City, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007, in Medina.
She was born Feb. 28, 1920, in Buffalo, N.Y. Mrs. Turk was a homemaker.
She is survived by her sons, Kenneth (Camilla) of Medina and Robert (Cynthia) Turk of Litchfield Township; daughter, Donna (Doug) Brookover of […]

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