Macy's to close Elyria Midway Mall store this year
Macy's Inc will shutter the Elyria location at Midway Mall as part of a plan to close 40 stores nationwide to cut costs. The Chapel Hill Summit County store is also slated for closure, leaving only two Ohio sites on the list. The company aims to focus on stronger Macy's and Bloomingdale's locations while closing underperforming shops. Shoppers and employees continued business as usual midweek.
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Terry J. Lundgren
Macy’s Inc
Macy's Midway Mall Faces Closing Amid Turnover
Macy's at Midway Mall, opened in 1990 with 105000 square feet and 64 associates, is linked to ongoing retail shifts. Management declined to discuss the closure, directing questions to corporate levels while promising possible reassignment to nearby stores as improvements totalling nearly 23 million unfold.
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Macy’s
Midway Mall
Elyria boards back four new elementaries over other options
Elyria school officials favored the least expensive plan at a public meeting. The Master Plan Committee recommends four new K-4 elementary schools at 12.9 million each and a campus style K-8 at the former Elyria West site costing 126 million total with 44 million local share. Two new middle schools for grades 5-8 would cost 15 to 17 million each, and admin offices move to the Northwood site.
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Erade
Elyria West High School
Northwood
One killed in Ripton Nickel Plate Road crash
A traffic crash on Ripton Nickel Plate Road near Pittsfield Township killed one person. The Ohio Highway Patrol said the crash happened shortly before 9:45 p.m. and investigators remained at the scene around 10:50 p.m. No further details were available at press time.
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Funeral fund boosts for Lorain AIDS activist Ricky Lanza
A longtime Lorain County AIDS Task Force supporter donated 5000 to Lanza's family for funeral costs after his death on December 27. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has funded SCATF for years and was a key backer of the group. Tina Lanza, Ricky's sister, said the GoFundMe effort helped cover remaining expenses. Ricky Lanza, director of Lorain County AIDS Task Force, helped organize a silent auction at the task force headquarters in September 2010.
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Lorain County
Ricky Lanza
Aids Healthcare Foundation
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GoFundMe
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Food stamp fraud case against Elyria shop owner dropped
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi dismissed the food stamp fraud case against Kitty Meszes owner of Cakes Candy and Flowers after the prosecution rested its case. Miraldi found insufficient evidence of criminal conduct to allow the trial to continue amid a Shopway food mart investigation.
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Kitty Meszes
Lorain County Common Pleas
John Miraldi
Miraldi
Ohio Investigative Unit
Shopway Food Mart
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