City Mulls Higher Fees for Early Trash Curbside Removals
Elyria residents and businesses could face an increase in unscheduled pickup penalties as City Council weighs raising the extra charge from 11.50 to 36.50 for residents and up to 119 for businesses. Council members Abbey Burkhard and Gersak urge action citing clutter and ugliness from early dump-offs. The plan, tied to sanitation staffing costs, awaits a Sept meeting vote and details contact numbers for the sanitation department and safety director.
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Elyria
Gail Abbey
6Th Ward
Abbey
Charlene Gersak
D-1st Ward
Gersak
Burkhard
West Side
South Side
East Side
North Side
Lorain County Community College
City Hall
Back to School in Lorain County Opens Smoothly
Lorain County students returned to classes with positive reports from Brush School in the Midview district and senior staff at Elyria Columbia and Clearview districts. Northwood Junior High saw a large seventh grade class, while Firelands and North Ridgeville schools introduced new distance learning labs and planners to organize assignments and track grades.
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Lorain County
Audrey Fountain
Brush School
Midview
Fountain
Elyria
Columbia
Clearview
Lorain
Northwood
Tom Jama
Jama
Patrick
Northwood Junior High
North Ridgeville High School
Patricia Bahr
Bahr
North Ridgeville
North Ridgeville High
Firelands High School
Paul Haeupile
Haeupile
Firelands
Haeuptle
Firelands High
Haeupitle
Statue returned after Chronicle story aids Lorain theft recovery
The Romero family statue in Lorain is back in their garden after a thief failed to remove it and a reader saw it discarded on West Sixth near Allison Avenue. An alert motorist who read Saturday's Chronicle Telegram helped locate the statue, which weighs 150 to 200 pounds and features a boy and girl under an umbrella.
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Lorain
Chronicle- Telegram
Romero
Erie Ave
Ohio
Romeros
Richard Romero
West Sixth
Allison Avenue
Chronicle
George Wickens
Italy
Accident ties up highway injures three in Amherst
Three people were injured in a Tuesday crash on westbound state Route 2 near Route 58 and Oak Point Road. A Mustang driver crossed the median and collided with a westbound Lumina and a tractor-trailer, prompting a one hour traffic delay and vehicle extrication before the scene was cleared.
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Amherst
Lorain
Michelle Borezuch
Huron
Christopher McCashey
Cleveland
Gregory Mitchell
Parma
Oak Point Road
Jim Wilhelm
Route 58
Sherri Squires
City near settlement on parkway land case
Elyria moves toward settling an eminent domain suit over 18 acres for a west side industrial parkway. Landowner John J. Lasko Jr. held out for more than the city was willing to pay, now near agreement. City plans to complete land acquisitions by year end and seek NOACA grants to fund an $8 million road, with construction possible starting July 2002.
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Elyria
Terry
Pete” Shilling
Shilling
John J. Lasko Jr
Cleveland
Lasko
Bull Grace
Grace
Northeast
Elyria man gets 4 years in manslaughter plea
Elyria man Troy Wright, 30, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a plea deal and was sentenced by Common Pleas Court Judge Kosma J. Glavas to four years in prison. Wright supplied the gun used to kill Neil Jackson on May 7, 1999, as police confirmed. Codie Shelton, 34, already serving 15 years to life, pleaded guilty earlier to murder and tampering in the same case. Jackson, returning home from work, was shot on Mussey Avenue.
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Elyria
Common Pleas Court
Kosma J. Glavas
Troy Wright
Jackson Street
Neil Jackson
Wright
Jackson
Dennis Will. Jackson
Codie Shelton
West River Road
Shelton
Progressive Processing
Mussey Avenue
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Chronicle-Telegram
E. Kenneth Burkhard
7Th Ward
East Carlisle
Dave Perczek
Gene Krebs
Ronicle
Jeff Mohrman
The
Attila Szamesi
Vermilon
Squires
9-1-1
Terry Shilling
Elyria Law
Jason Norman
She Chronicle-Telegram
Mitchell Shepherd
Gwynn
Ely
Summer
Cascade Park
Mitchell
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