Fire Destroys Elyria Home Damaging Belongings
Debby Harris returns to her Elyria home at 1628 Lake Ave to find a blaze. Neighbors pull dog Winston from a front window around 5:20 p.m. An electrical short in the basement caused the fire, inflicting about 60 000 dollars in property damage and 20 000 dollars in belongings. Firefighters battled flames from 5:20 p.m. onward as shingles and attic fire escalated.
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Elyria
Debby Harris
Winston
Harris
Lake Ave
Teri Drda
Drda
Ken Laux
Laux
Ron Bilas
Coroner IDs Lorain County Man Found Dead at Home
Lorain County Coroner Dr. Stephen Evans confirms Ray mond Dollney, 58, was the deceased found April 9 in his home at 1629 1631 East 31st Street. Police continue to investigate amid conflicting neighbor statements and a small auxiliary fire, but the coroner sees death as natural causes with decomposition hindering exact timing. Dollney, described as recluse with mental illness, had not spoken to family for over two years.
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Lorain
Lorain County
Stephen Evans
Raymond Dollney
E. 31St St
Evans
Dollney
Goodwheel seeks donated vans to aid transit program
Goodwill's Goodwheel program needs better wheels to serve the elderly and handi capped. It currently uses a 2000 Mercury Sable and a 1999 Ford Escape after two high top vans died. Transit coordinator Jack Arbogast says they have 100 to 150 trips weekly and seek donated vehicles or funds to replace the engine in one of the vans donated by Lorain County Transit in October 2010. The two vans have more than 200 000 miles and one was cannibalized to keep the other running.
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Goodwill
Goodwheel
Jack Arbogast
Lorain County Transit
Arbogast
Elliria mall walker at 99 inspires daily strides
Elyria resident Charlotte Kuczkowski, born 1913 in Buffalo, patrols Midway Mall with friend Henry Niedzwiecki, clocking a mile and a half of daily exercise since the 1960s. Her birthday cake celebration marks another year of mobility and zest as she emphasizes living life day by day.
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Elyria
Charlotte Kuczkowski
Midway Mall
Henry Niedzwiecki
Kuczkowski
Niedzwiecki
Buffalo
N.Y
Thomas Kuczkowski
Manchester
N.H
Bruce Bishop
Bank seeks to overturn foreclosure in Quinn loan case
Wells Fargo asks a county judge to vacate the foreclosure on former Elyria mayoral candidate Tim Quinn. The bank says an inadvertence led to the judgment after Quinn reached a loan mitigation deal, avoiding sheriff sale on his Howard Street home once owed 164,699.
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Elyria
Tim Quinn
Quinn
Tina Edmondson
Wells Fargo Bank
Edmondson
Howard Street
Wells Fargo
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