Avon Lake to offer small business loans next year
Avon Lake plans a micro-lending program through its Community Improvement Corporation with $130,000 seed money from city fees and a $10,000 donation from PolyOne. The five member CIC will loan from $500 to $350,000 via partner ECDI to aid startups and expansions.
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Avon Lake
Community Improvement Corporation
CIC
Greg Zilka
Zilka
PolyOne Corp
Economic and Community Development Institute
Small Business Association
Eric Diamond
ECDI
Cleveland
Ohio
Diamond
Tech
Delayed aggravated murder hearing for Benjamin Davis
A Lorain Municipal Court preliminary hearing for Benjamin Davis on aggravated murder and related charges has been postponed to next month to allow a mental competency evaluation. Prosecutors will use the evaluation to assess mitigating factors that could affect a possible capital murder indictment. Davis, 29, is accused of killing Robert Caudill at Lake Motel and fleeing to Amherst where he called police.
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Lorain
Benjamin Davis
Davis
J. Anthony Rich
Robert Caudill
Lake Motel
Caudill
Amherst
Rich
Lorain County
Dennis Will
North Ridgeville man lights 45000 bulbs for holiday display
Bob Mangan’s annual light show in North Ridgeville draws jokes about National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation but he embraces them. Since returning from Elyria 15 years ago he has built a vast display of about 45000 lights, installed over six weeks starting the first week of October, far surpassing his 20000-light debut.
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Kristin Bauer
Chronicle
Bob Mangan
North Ridgeville
Clark Griswold
Chevy Chase
National Lampoon
Mangan
Elyria
TO SEE THE LIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD DISPLAY DRAWS VISITORS
Mangan decorates Cambridge Drive in Wildwood Estates with a large holiday display including a gingerbread house and Disney characters. The setup costs about 40000 dollars overall with 2000 dollars for this season. Fans visit despite rain as photos on Facebook and a Cleveland TV segment boosted interest.
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Cambridge Drive
Clear Creek Drive
Wildwood Estates
Chestnut Ridge Road
Forest Glen
Mangan
Santa
Cleveland
Lorain Port Authority seeks proposals for Black River Landing
Lorain Port Authority directors approve requesting development proposals for about eight acres at Black River Landing, 421 Black River Lane. The southern site area, with waterfront road work ongoing and many homes razed, could host botanical gardens or a conference center among other options. Proposals are expected to be sought next week with responses due in February.
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Lorain
Black River Landing
Novak
Stiner family pushes caffeine powder ban to U.S. Senate
The Stiner family with over 6000 signers met U S Sen Sherrod Brown and allies in Washington to press the FDA to ban pure caffeine powder sold online. The issue follows Logan Stiner 17 Keystone HS death and Wade Sweatt 24 from Georgia, with FDA reviewing possible steps amid safety concerns.
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LaGrange
Washington, D.C
Logan Stiner
Keystone High School
U. S
Sherrod Brown
Cleveland
Washing
U.S
Richard Blumenthal
D-Conn
Wade Sweatt
Georgia
FDA
Brown's
Stiner
Loganstiner.org
Brown
Margaret Hamburg
Blumenthal
Stiners
Thomas A. Kraus
Anna Merriman
Amerriman
Chroniclet
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