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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 2008
Page
1
Shoppers at the Target store in Elyria make last-minute rushes to finish holiday lists as the season winds down amid a slow economy. The scene captures narrowed storefronts and focused buying before holidays conclude.
St Mary Church hosts a parish hall dinner after the 11 am Mass with takeout delivery available. Government offices at all levels close for Christmas, safety services remain on duty, and many city services pause with one day behind for Sanitation, post offices banks and transit resuming Friday weekend schedules.
Elyria stores, parking lots, and Midway Mall aisles showed slow last minute shopping before Christmas. Shelves dried up while carts remained scant and shoppers wandered, with many saying they were adding only a few final names to their lists.
The Chronicle-Telegram moved up today's press time to let staff spend Christmas Eve with families. Some features, especially in sports and the evening lottery numbers, were omitted and will return on the normal Friday schedule.
Mark Smitkowski 58 owner of The Work Shop Gallery on South Main Street was killed Tuesday night when his car crossed the center line on icy Route 113 and was struck by a pickup. Coroner Paul Matus called him a popular Oberlin artisan who drew customers from across the area.
Two armed black men, possibly fleeing in a gold SUV, robbed a Westlake bank around 11 a.m. They ordered tellers to stay and took money from two drawers. Witnesses saw them run east from Detroit Road. one suspect wore light sneakers and both wore ski masks and hooded sweatshirts.
Lorain police faced a freezing rain standoff when suspected parole violator Jason Evans fled in a red 2008 Ford Taurus with three passengers after police spotted him. The pursuit ended when Evans and the others sprinted from the spinning vehicle and hid in a house as officers coaxed them out.
An ice storm slicked Northeast Ohio roads Tuesday night hampering police firefighters and drivers. Ohio Highway Patrol investigates the death of 58-year-old Mark Smitkowski of Henrietta Township after his car on Route 113 slid and was struck by a pickup at about 5 30 p m. Smitkowski owned The Work Shop Gallery in Oberlin. In addition to that crash pileups continued across the region.
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