Exploring Alternatives Specialized centers assist county problem students
Paul Wandra, once on a risky path, now near graduation at Elyria High School and eyeing Kent State through Education Alternatives in Elyria. Executive director Gerald Swartz says the program serves youths with intense emotional needs, not bad kids, despite 38 incidents in eight months.
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Paul Wandra
Avon Lake High School
Wandra
Elyria High School
Kent State University
Lorain
Paul
Gerald Swartz
Education Alternatives
Lake Avenue
Lorain County
Willow Creek Positive Education
Eaton Township
Lorain County Academy
Oberlin
Troubled incidents at Education Alternatives raise concerns
Police reports detail multiple student assaults on teachers at Education Alternatives including a 13-year-old injuring two people on February 13 and a 17-year-old barricading an office in October. Other cases mention threats to blow up the school and sexual remarks, drugs, and general disruptive behavior as principals cite bad decisions and underlying psychological struggles.
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Education Alternatives
Elyria
Noeleen Rothacker
Dawn McCready
McCready
Rescue crews search for missing man in Black River
Firefighters and police scouted the Black River along Cascade Park in Elyria on a snowy Saturday nightlit by floodlights and camera flashes as rescue crews searched for a Black man in a brown coat. By 2 p.m. the river ran two feet above flood level, authorities reported with no word on the man's fate.
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Elyria
Black
Cascade Park
Mendel Court
National Weather Service
Carl Sullenberger
Chronicle
Forest
Cascade
Black River
Break-in suspect faces many charges
Amherst police charged Kent A. Shroyer 40 with attempted aggravated murder aggravated burglary felonious assault assaulting a police officer disrupting public service and resisting arrest after a violent confrontation inside a Washington Avenue home where a 911 call was cut off. He is held without bond at the county jail.
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Amherst
Washington Avenue
Kent A. Shroyer
Joseph Kuciek
Shroyer
Man kills wife during four hour standoff in Berlin
Erie County deputies report Thomas W. Jensen 42 shot Melanie Jensen 34 once in the head with a .357 Magnum then killed himself after a four hour standoff at their Route 113 home. Their two daughters, ages 14 and 17, were at home and are with an aunt.
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Wife
Berlin
Self
Erie County Sheriff's Deputies
Thomas W. Jensen
Melanie Jensen
Erie County
Paul Sigsworth
Jensen
Sigsworth
Thomas Jensen
Melanie
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