Hinckley Township
- A resident on Brookside Boulevard called police July 11 to report vandals broke the door of her mailbox sometime before 5:30 a.m.
Lodi
- Someone reportedly used a stolen food stamp card to buy groceries at Circle K, 441 Medina St., at 4:47 p.m. Tuesday. The card was taken from the house of a woman […]

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By MARIA KACIK
Staff Writer
LODI — Corn baking. Corn hole. Corn contests.
The annual Lodi Sweet Corn Festival centers on corn, but this year the sweet corn almost had to be trucked in.
Yvonne Sivard, who has planned the festival for the past three years, said only once in the festival’s 27 years did Lodi bring in corn […]

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Jeff Wolfe conducts a drum circle for children Thursday afternoon on Public Square in Medina. Wolfe, a Medina native, is working on his master’s degree in music therapy at Ohio University. The event was part of Medina County Arts Week, which concludes today with Wolfe performing at 12:30 p.m. at the Brunswick Community Recreation & […]

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Hiram Eley, 83, of Wadsworth, passed away Thursday, July 17, 2008, at Wadsworth Point Nursing Home.
He was born Sept. 30, 1924, in Warroad, Minn. Mr. Eley was a retired salesman and also was a farmer for many years. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Barberton. He loved Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Mr. Eley […]

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John “Jack” Longacre, 72, formerly of Medina, passed away Monday, July 14, 2008, in Charlotte, N.C.
He was born March 6, 1936, in Akron to Naomi and Leland Longacre. He was a graduate of Medina High School and Olivet College with a degree in business. Mr. Longacre was in retail sales most of his life, […]

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Harold Lee Stephenson, 82, of Fairmont, W.Va., passed away Tuesday, July 15, 2008, at the Arbors of Fairmont, from acute leukemia.
He was born March 29, 1926, in Portsmouth, Ohio, to Elza Lee and Mary Ellen Angel Stephenson. He graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1943. After graduating, Mr. Stephenson served as a sergeant in […]

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Robert A. Swaney, 75, of Medina, passed away Wednesday, July 16, 2008.
He was an ironworker. Mr. Swaney was a member of Iron Workers Local 17, the Willoughby Eagles and Rustic Hills Country Club, and a former councilman in Timberlake, Ohio. Mr. Swaney also coached Little League baseball and basketball for Eastlake youth. His accomplishments […]

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River Styx Road, between Rohrer and Blake roads in Guilford Township, will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday, July 22 and 23, due to culvert replacement.
Remsen Road, between Woodling Way and State Road in Granger Township, is closed through Monday, July 21, for culvert replacement.
Marks Road, at its intersection with Spieth Road in York […]

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CHEERS: to the Medina County Career Center program that gives students hands-on experience in several areas, including carpentry and electricity. Each year the center auctions off a house built by senior carpentry and building trades students. The most recent one was on the block this week in Liverpool Township. Cheers, too, to all the local […]

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By Brian Dulik
Staff writer
The Indians begin the ceremonial second half of their season tonight in Seattle, which makes this the perfect time to look back at their first 94 games. As always — in my mind, at least — the best way to do that is by counting the numbers:
Simply the best: Tribe pitcher Cliff […]

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