Elyria expands abatements and backs noise barrier bid
Elyria City Council unanimously approved Mayor Keys expansion of community reinvestment area tax incentives to retain local businesses, while backing a noise barrier along I 90 with support from Reps Bender and Brown. A fulltime city solicitor was approved and elected official salaries set through 2002, including a 3 percent yearly raise.
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Elyria
Michael B. Keys
Keys
Garry Gibbs
3Rd Ward
William Grace
Gibbs
Council
Grace
John Bender
D-Elyria
U.S
Sherrod Brown
D-Lorain
Tanner
Not-Forgotten Box Toy Drive Wins $100 at EMH
Elyria Chronicle Telegram reports EMH Regional Medical Center won $100 in a Christmas decorating contest for its Not-Forgotten Box charity. The ER team used the prize to buy toys, continuing a joint effort with the Chronicle Telegram and Salvation Army to collect gifts for children.
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Elyria
Chronicle Telegram
Emh Regional Medical Center
Jill Elek
Chronicle-Telegram
Salvation Army
Elek
Genesis House
Karen Korka
Radiology Department
Julie Nichols
Grafton
Ehm Regional Medical Center
North Ridgeville seeks state loans for road repaving
North Ridgeville plans to apply for 420000 in interest free loans from the Ohio Public Works Commission to repave Root Road and Stoney Ridge Road. If approved, work would start this summer and finish by September. The loans cover 60 percent of costs with the city funding the rest, to be paid back over 20 years.
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North Ridgeville
Root
Stoney Ridge
Ohio Public Works Commission
Ohio
Root Road
Reed Road
Eaton Township
Stewart Lovece
Oberlin eyes 2 million grant for historic Gasholder House
Oberlin plans a renovation gateway using a 1689 round brick Gasholder House donated by Jimmy Clark for public use. The city seeks more than 2 million in grants to convert the site near a bicycle path into a visitor center or museum potential for Underground Railroad history with space for parking and bikes.
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Oberlin
Fran Baumann
Council
Jimmy Clark
South Main Street
Philip Verda
Clark
Baumann
Rob DiSpirito
DiSpirito
Lorain Council delays police vehicle purchase
Lorain City Council postpones approving a planned buy of 10 fully equipped 1999 Ford Crown Victorias three 1999 Tahoe patrol vehicles a Ford F250 and two police Tahoes for K 9 and underwater recovery. Nine members present one member declined to approve proceeding this year delaying the purchase.
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Lorain City
Lorain
Anthony Krasienko
63Rd Ward
del Rivera
Krasienko
Rivera
Armbruster Sworn In As State Senator In Ridgeville
Senator Jeffry Armbruster took the oath of office before about 150 friends and family at the Ridgefield Clubhouse. Judge Thomas W. Janas administered the oath as Armbruster pledged to secure district needs and deliver for his constituents.
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Steve Manheim
Chronicle
Thomas Janas
New State
Jeffry Armbruster
North Ridgeville
Center
Armbruster
Lee
William
Ron Nabakowski
Amherst
Ridgefield
Common Pleas Court
Thomas W. Janas
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