Deaths Benjamin Kaplansky former Elyria resident
Benjamin H. Kaplansky 72 died Saturday at Biscayne Medical Center Miami after a yearlong illness. Born in Russia he lived in Steubenville as a businessman until 1977 retirement to North Miami Beach. Survived by wife Marion a son Burton a daughter Betty Weisenmeir four grandchildren a brother and three sisters. Services Wednesday 2 p.m. Salem Cemetery Lorain with Rabbi Sidney Rackoff officiating. Walter A Frey Funeral Home Lorain handles arrangements.
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Benjamin H. Kaplansky
Elyria
Biscayne Medical Center
Miami
Fla
Russia
Steubenville
Miami Beach
Temple Bethel
B'nai B'rith
Democratic Party
Marion
Rosenfeld
Burton
University Heights
Alan
Betty) Weisenmeir
San Francisco
Albert
Cleveland
Mitchell
Sylvia) Smukier
Philadelphia
Nathan
Lillian) Greenberg
Samuel
Edythe) Gottlieb
Lorain
Salem Cemetery
Sidney Rackoff
Temple B'nai Abraham
Walter A. Frey
Stanfield Clyde V
Marts Mace
Wellington
Marjorie Lowther
Song
Clyde Jr
Theodore
Norton Funeral Home
Grove Street Cemetery
New Pa
Kolb Charles W
Westlake Rivd
Naples
Pla
Kimberly Sue Byrd
Visitation
Garland Funeral Home
Amherst
Funeral Home
Evergreen Cemetery
Soggely Hays
Amherst Veterans Military Honor
Crnard
Fireworks displays listed for July 4 around Cleveland area
Area fireworks shows are planned at Weiss Field Bay Village Cahoon Park Coe Lake Municipal Stadium Blossom Music Center Grafton Great Northern Mall North Olmsted parking lot North Ridgeville Wilcox School Rochester Sherrod Park Clague Park and more venues. Shows run tonight dusk 9:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. with rain reschedulings noted for several locations.
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Avon Lake
Weiss Field
Bay Village
Cahoon Park
BEREA
Municipal Complex
Coe Lake
Cleveland
Municipal Stadium
Cleveland Indians
New York Yankees
Blossom Music Center
Cleveland Orchestra
Grafton
Rural Life
North Olmsted
Great Northern Mall
North Ridgeville
Wilcox School
North Ridgeville High School
Rochester
Vermilion
Sherrod Park
Westlake
Clague Park
Underground Athens News shutters dope wizard pages
The Athens News, founded in 1977 by campus radicals, abandons its Dope Wizard and Skinny Dippers guides as it seeks legitimacy. Editor Melody Sands led a shifting focus to investigative and local reporting, winning a First Amendment award and facing a libel suit while fighting ad boycotts and aiming for growth with a three-paper plan.
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Athens
Athens News
Bruce Mitchell
the News
Alexander Cockburn
New York
Village Voice
Melody Sands
Ohio University
Miss Sands
Playboy Foundation
Tom Eslocker
People’s
News
Athens County
Paul Brown
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Mitchell
Ohio City
Katie Foley
Veteran bomber from Lorain to ride B-17 into town
Clyde V. Knowles 73 of Lorain will ride a B 17 bomber from Indianapolis to Lorain County as part of a Confederate Air Force visit. The former World War II pilot flew combat missions in England with the 401st Bomb Group and will tour the aircraft from 10 am to 5 pm before it moves on to Buffalo.
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Lorain County
Indianapolis
Knowles
West
Erie Avenue
England
Confederate Air Force
Buffalo
N.Y
Carl Neilsen
Neilsen Jewelers
Lorain
Deanthorpe
London
401Th
U.S. 8Th Air Force
Army Air Corps
Air Force
Columbia marks 175th birthday with extended celebration
The Columbia Community Homecoming extends through Monday after rain forced cancellations. Sunday features a blueberry baking contest at 1 p.m., bakery auction at 2 p.m., water fight at 2:30 p.m., gospel singings at 3 and 4:30 p.m., a rock set 6 to 7:30 p.m., and a choral performance. Kiwanis serves noon chicken barbecue. Monday opens the midway at 10 a.m. with rides, a 11 a.m. Columbia Riders Horse Show, a 2 p.m. baseball game, with 16 horse events and a 10 p.m. fireworks finale.
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Columbia
Park Gazebo
Reese
Gospel Singers
Free Way Jam
Park Shelter
Columbia Chovaliers
Kiwanis
Columbia Riders
Columbia Station
Columbia Hot Stove League
Columbia Firemen
Rackets trial nears end in Cleveland case
Closing arguments wrapped up in a federal trial of six men accused of plotting to dominate organized crime in northern Ohio. Kenneth Clarcia’s attorney Jonathan Soucek diverged from the other defense lawyers as they sought to undermine testimony from three protected government witnesses Louis Aartari, Ronald Guiles, and Raymond Ferritto.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Jonathan Soucek
Kenneth Clarcia
Governent
Louis J. “Little
Tony” Aratari
Ronald “Vic” Guiles
Raymond Ferritto
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Lester Austin
Columbia’ Station
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Athens “A” News
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Bush
Post
Kirstin Sheets
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Eickhart
Eickhalt
Eickholt
HENS
Steve Fogarty
Willis S. Knowles
Town
Padees
Mi Ch
Hart Zita Elizabeth Hart
Parkview Court
Bilmor-DeCarlo
St. Mary's Cemetery
Personal Lines
Rieth Insurance Co
Cortis-Scheuffier Funeral Home, Inc
Vannty Sea
C-T
Paresh Patel
Onl
Barton S. Fine
E. River
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