By CHRIS ASSENHEIMER
Staff Writer
It stinks to be an Indians fan, doesn’t it?
You watch your team develop players into superstars and then you watch them walk out the door.
You saw it with Manny Ramirez when he left Cleveland to help the Red Sox win a pair of World Series titles. You saw it with Jim Thome, […]

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By MARIA KACIK

Staff Writer
Mark Overholt knows heavy-duty equipment. As president of Tiger General in Montville Township, which has been a family-owned machine and truck construction business since 1925, he deals with trailers, trucks, dump trucks, flatbeds, vacuum trucks and so on.
But recently his company finished its most durable truck.
Last week, two Winch Master bed trucks […]

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BRUNSWICK — Two men entered Check Into Cash with a semi-automatic weapon, tied up a female customer and clerk, and left them in a back room before fleeing with an undetermined amount of cash and the customer’s checkbook Monday evening.
Brunswick Detective Brian Schmitt said it was near closing time at the business, 3656 Center Road, […]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
MEDINA — For about 90 years, Medina County had two separate Red Cross units: the Medina County chapter of the Red Cross and the Wadsworth Red Cross.
At the beginning of this month, however, the two merged.
Both chapters formed in 1917. In 2005, the Wadsworth Red Cross went from being its own chapter […]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
MEDINA — The number of alcohol- or drug-related fatal car accidents have been rising in Medina County in recent years, said officer Jerry Klue, director of the Medina County Safe Communities program.
The new OVI Task Force, which brings together officers from 10 law enforcement agencies throughout the county, will attempt to stop […]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA — The warm summer months often bring more delinquent behavior in the city parks, so police have boosted their patrols, Lt. Bob Starcher said Tuesday.
“Due to the problems we always experience in the summer in our parks, we are using various means of enforcement, including covert surveillance as well as foot […]

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By ADAM FERRISE
Special to The Gazette
An exhausted Frank Shotwell laid on the ground after completing nine grueling and challenging events over two days.
 He was tired and was having his legs worked on by a University of Michigan trainer, unaware of the exact point totals going into the final event of the decathlon May 17 […]

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MEDINA — A Montville Township juvenile called in a fake bank robbery at Buehler’s Tuesday afternoon, causing chaos as police surrounded the store and checked neighboring banks, police said.
The call was made from a pay phone inside Buehler’s, 275 Forest Meadows Drive, at 11:11 a.m. by a boy in his preteens, said Lt. Bob Starcher. […]

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- At 2:40 a.m. Monday, police arrived at 315 Longview Road on a call about a loud party and observed through an open garage door three adults reportedly passing around a ceramic smoking pipe.
The officer approached the adults — residents Jeffrey Seamon, 29, and Colleen Seamon, 31 — and Elizabeth Rosser, 31, of 5845 Deerview […]

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Oliver Alexander Ezell was born and passed away on Sunday, July 6, 2008.
He was the beloved infant son of Brian T. and Crystal J. (nee Tippens) Ezell; dear brother of Emali, Zeke and Stephen Ezell; and cherished grandson of Marjorie and Okey Tippens, and Louise and Naomi Ezell.
Waite & Son Funeral Homes, Brunswick Chapel, is […]

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