CHEERS: to the city of Brunswick, which has been ranked in the August issue of Family Circle as one of America’s 10-best towns for families. Factors in Brunswick’s selection, according to the national magazine, include its sense of community spirit, a highly ranked school system, and the city’s efforts to be more “green.” Brunswick was […]

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By JOHN GLADDEN

Staff Columnist
So it’s not just my imagination. Not this time, anyway. As I’ve been driving through neighborhoods and down back roads, I’m seeing more tall wooden stakes in manicured suburban yards. Squares and rectangles of freshly turned soil. Green stuff growing in neat little rows. And fences to keep the rabbits and groundhogs […]

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By JOHN GLADDEN
Staff Columnist
Here’s a little song in honor of this week’s official start of summer.
On the first day of summer, my true love gave to me:
A shovel and a pine tree.
On the second day of summer, my true love gave to me:
Two cans of paint,
Plus a shovel and a pine tree.
On the third day […]

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It’s a long and winding road that leads Medina General Hospital back to Medina City Council on Monday to seek a change in zoning as part of a $30 million emergency department expansion.
This request follows almost two years of intense public hearings, legal challenges and revised architectural plans. The controversy surrounding the zoning even became […]

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CHEERS: to Dan Weltzien, owner of SkyPark airport in Guilford Township, for commemorating the many servicemen and women who made sacrifices for their country. Weltzien began by honoring Wadsworth native Alan Trent, who was listed as MIA after his plane crashed in Cambodia in 1970, by dedicating SkyPark in Trent’s name. Trent was one of […]

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By JOHN GLADDEN

Staff Columnist
My grandpa was a “hypermiler,” and he didn’t even know it. He was just a child of the Depression and a person with an instinctive sense of economy, who saved money wherever he could.
For example, after my brother and I helped him with projects around the farm or at the rental properties […]

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It’s ironic - not to mention a little exhausting - to think the race for the White House that began 18 months ago is just getting started. The primary season is over at last, leaving two presumptive nominees: Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.
Each is a sitting U.S. senator, but that’s where the similarities […]

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CHEERS: to astronaut Michael Foreman for being true to his roots and returning to Sacred Heart School in Wadsworth — which he attended — to share with students firsthand about his trip into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavor in March. Foreman also is scheduled to visit SkyPark airport in Guilford Township, where he learned […]

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By JOHN GLADDEN

Staff Columnist
We each carry with us little burdens everywhere we go — a bum knee, the ringing in our ears, or a weight on our minds just as real and as the weight of our steps on a creaky joint.
This may not be much to you, given the fact there are so many […]

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Someday, Medina may need to consider switching from a mayoral to a city manager form of government, but not today.
That was the outcome last week when a majority of city council members said they would vote against putting the issue on the ballot. It was the right call.
As Mayor Jane Leaver said, it’s a topic […]

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