Campana halts Hills deal for Lorain plant plan
Campana Inc withdraws its offer to transform the vacant Hills department store at Route 57 into a 15 million manufacturing and research facility. The city owns the building idle since 1982. Campana cites negative press from the Lorain Journal and says it will expand existing facilities or build anew rather than buy Hills. The project would have created about 100 jobs within three years and included garbage reclamation and coating research.
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Lorain — PC Campana Inc
Hills
Campana
Robert Campana
Council
Lorain Journal
EPA to clean up abandoned Glaze Plating site in Elyria
The EPA agrees to remove more than 15 uncovered chemical tanks from the former Glaze Plating Corp plant at 205 Parmery Ave in Elyria. Cleanup, costing the agency, follows an arson fire and prior collapse, with tests to determine contamination and disposal responsibilities. Tank contents include zinc, nickel, and chromium compounds, posing sewer and waste plant risks.
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Elyria
US Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Glaze Plating Corp
Parmery Ave
Bob Kirsh
Lawrence Glaze
Glaze
May expands with 24 billion plan to add 810 stores
St Louis based May Department Stores announced a five year expansion totaling 24 billion dollars. The plan includes 70 new department stores 46 discount outlets and 700 Payless ShoeSource locations nationwide. A 100 000 square foot May Co store at Midway Mall is slated to replace the former site in Sheffield Centre this summer with Jacobs Visconsi Jacobs ownership still to confirm.
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Cleveland
Progam
St Louis
May Department Stores
Greater Cleveland
May Co
Midway Mall
Sheffield
Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs
Former Elyria Woman Slain in Mesa Home
Dorothy MacEwen Lang, 42, a former Elyria resident, was found slain at her Mesa Arizona home last weekend. Police report she died from blows to the head. her bedroom appeared ransacked. Her daughter Tracy MacEwen discovered the body Saturday morning. Lang had moved to Arizona in the late 1970s and was formerly a bookkeeper with Wil liam MacEwen’s Lorain Elyria muffler family.
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Mesa
Ariz
Elyria
Dorothy Mac-Ewen Lang
Tracy MacEwen
Lang
Mackiwen
MacEwen
Carl Lang
Langs
Higbee cuts about 90 jobs after Dillard buyout
Higbee Co in Cleveland eliminates about 90 positions as part of cost cutting by new owners Dillard Department Stores Inc and Edward J DeBartolo Corp. President H Gene Nau notes staff realignments and transfers while efficiency gains boost sales staff by 12 percent this spring. Higbee employs 3,500 people overall.
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Cleveland
Higbee Co
Higbee
H Gene Nau
Dillard Department Stores Inc
Little Rock, Ark
Edward J DeBartolo Corp
Youngs Town
Nau
Dillard
Tower pledge meets Senate hurdle in Bush defense pick
Washington notes John Tower vows to quit drinking as defense secretary pick despite GOP unity and undecided Democrats, with Bush scrambling to sway 5 of 55 Democrats and all 45 Republicans. Officials expect tough persuasion as undecided senators weigh the controversial nomination.
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Washington
John Tower
Secretary of Defense
Bush
Far East
White House
Towin Tower
Avon woman reports clergy investment loss totaling over 100000
A third woman alleges she invested about 3600 with Rev Robert Cauley in 1987 and cannot recover it. Avon police say cumulative unrecovered funds exceed 100000 as investigators probe possible further victims. Cauley, 72, is said to have mental health issues and is admitted to a psychiatric unit at St John Hospital in Cleveland.
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Avon
Robert Cauley
Paul Romond
Cauley
Romond
St Mary of Immaculate Conephenia Avon
St John Hospital
Clevelands West Side
Helen
Weather update brief for locals
A winter advisory notes outside tonight with occasional flurries and squalls possible. Lows near 20 degrees. Wednesday projects flurries with a high of 25 to 30 degrees. Details on page A-3.
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