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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 2000
Page
1
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Geon Co of Avon Lake and M A Hanna Co announce a bilateral stock merger valued above 1.1 billion dollars to create the world’s largest plastics supplier. The deal links Geon vinyl plastics expertise with Hanna’s polymer products, with about 490 Lorain County staff affected.
The Elyria Library advances toward a new main building by negotiating with Moss Steak and Spaghetti House to buy 209 Broad St for 270000. The library already owns the license bureau building and Elyria Bowling Center to be part of the site. Fifth Third Bank tentatively agrees to purchase the old post office building from Spitzer Management, adjacent to the future library site. A third deal is under discussion for a bank purchase.
Fifth Third Bank officials say the former post office building in Elyria will require substantial interior repairs and renovation though the exterior remains in good shape. Dennis Green declined to specify needed work or costs as plans are reviewed. The 1918 building has been vacant since 1981 after the post office moved out and prior redevelopment ideas, including a restaurant and an art gallery, have failed. If sold, downtown Elyria would retain only the New York Central Railroad Station as a remaining landmark.
Philippine officials tied a student at AMA Computer College to a password stealing program closely resembling the ILOVEYOU virus. FBI provided 10 pseudonyms. investigators work to decode them as a bank employee jailed then released. The worm has spread to over 20 countries, flooding inboxes with the TO: and subject lines See LOVE.
Emergency crews retrieved a man’s body from the Black River behind the Elyria Mobile Home Park. Police say he appears to have been in the water for some time and foul play is not yet known. Investigators will await the coroner’s examination at EMI Regional Medical Center.
In Elyria and Lorain local anti gun group Drop the Guns led by Nee Gill will stage shoe memorials to protest gun violence. Gill recalls her father Charlie Joe Burns Sr. shot in 1971 and says the events aim to reduce gun deaths in Ohio by collecting 966 shoes representing 1997 totals with notes to memorialize victims.
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