Elyria Man Sues Officers Over Alleged Excessive Force
An Elyria man filed a lawsuit in Lorain County Common Pleas Court alleging excessive force by Elyria police during his April 23 2016 arrest. The suit accuses Officers Weber Chalkey and Mitchell of rough handling and multiple stun gun shocks after Jones approached a patrol car unarmed and uncooperative requests.
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Elyria
Lorain County
East River Road
Cody Jones
Anthony Weber
Weber
Jones
Nicholas Chalkey
Paige Mitchell
Duane Whitely
Former jail guard disputes firing after domestic violence arrest
Bart Hobart, 57, a former Lorain County Jail Corrections Officer, fights his April 6 firing stemming from a March 30 incident in which he and his wife, Lisa Hobart, were returning from a night out. Lisa faces DUI and related charges after a crash on North Ridge Road. Bart faces a felony domestic violence charge and has filed a grievance seeking reinstatement.
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Elyria
Lorain County
Bart Hobart
Jack Hammond
Hobart
Phil Stammitti
Hammond
Stammitti
Amherst
Lisa Hobart
North Ridge Road
Oberlin
Oberlin Police Threaten Bikers Over Abandoned Cycles
Oberlin police have confiscated about six bicycles in two weeks and issued around eighteen warnings as officers cut through cable locks on bikes left downtown too long. Captain Henry Wallace noted escalating enforcement to clear abandoned cycles.
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Oberlin
Henry Wallace
Steve Manheim
Chronicle
Recycling grant distributions down for most Lorain County communities
Lorain County commissioners awarded 275000 to 34 communities in the recycling incentive grant program. Payouts depend on local recycling totals with many towns receiving less after a year of overall funding decline from 300000 in 2016 and 375000 in 2015. Vermilion’s grant fell from 18841 to 15272 as officials lament reduced allocations.
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Elyria
Solid Waste District
Lorain County
Cordes
Vermilion
Eileen Bulan
Avon bed tax case ends as Ohio Supreme Court rejects appeal
The Ohio Supreme Court refused Avon’s appeal on the 3 percent bed tax, leaving lower rulings intact that the tax was illegal. Avon still holds over $100,000 collected before the ruling and will decide its disposition. The tax had funded city marketing efforts since 2015 after Avon Council approved it in 2014.
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Avon
Ohio Supreme Court
High Court
Bryan Jensen
Jensen
Lorain County
Businesses weigh sites in Sheffield Lake amid two proposed builds
Mayor Dennis Bring said National Comfort Institute eyeing a training center at the former Abbe Road Lumber site on Abbe Road after years of talks with the landowner. A Goodwill Industries store is planned for Shoreway Shopping Center as officials pursue the project with no firm start date.
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Sheffield Lake
Dennis Bring
National Comfort Institute
Abbe Road
Bring
Goodwill Industries
Shoreway Shopping Center
Goodwill
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