Metokote to Build $4.7 Million Coatings Plant in Taylor Woods
MetoKote Corp of Lima signs with Logos Development to build a two phase 63,000 square foot coatings plant in Taylor Woods Industrial Park, Elyria area. Initial 47 employees rising to 107 after full buildout. groundbreaking set for June. IRB bonds and property trade required. Mayor Peace calls it biggest job boost since PPG.
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North Ridgeville
Taylor Woods
MetoKote Corp
Lima
Logos Development Corp
Taylor Street
Elyria
PPG Industries
Meta- Kote
James C. Blankemeyer
Joseph Kasinec
Logos Development
Floyd Peace
MetaKote
Rural water main break cuts supply to thousands in Avon area
About 6 500 Rural Lorain County Water Authority customers lost water overnight and today after a main supply line ruptured in Avon near Miller Road. Schools in Keystone and Midview districts and North Ridgeville Freshman School in Eaton closed due to low pressure. Crews found the break after 5 pm and worked through the night, with emergency connections to Oberlin and New London keeping pressure south of Route 18. Wellington also reported a broken pipe under Pitts Road on Route 18 and planned emergency connections.
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Lorain County Water Authority
RLCWA
Avon
Miller Road
Keystone
Midview
North Ridgeville
Eaton
Oberlin
New London
ALCWA
Louis Wilson
Wellington
Pitts Road
Wilson
Medina County
LaGrange
Columbia
Lorain County
Runners set to carry Olympic torch in area
Nine residents from western Cuyahoga and Lorain counties were chosen to carry the Olympic torch during its Ohio relay toward Los Angeles. A Thursday meeting will coordinate assignments and uniforms, with an overnight stay Saturday in Huntington Park Bay Village. Jack Bergan of Bay Village, a TransAmerica life company manager, will carry a torch segment and cited goals of fitness and company hype as reasons for his participation.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga
Lorain County
Ohio
Los Angeles
Lorain
Huntington Park
Bay Village
Jack Bergan
Wolf Road
Bergan
Trans- America Occidental Life
TransAmerica Corp
Lorain park eyed in Celeste land buy plan
Gov Richard Celeste's capital improvements bill proposes up to 1 million dollars to acquire lakefront land at Lorain's Beaver Creek Hole in the Wall area for a new state park. State Rep John Bara says House leadership backs 800 thousand to 1 million for the Lorain land with a 2.8 million state-wide park acquisition allocation.
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Columbus
Richard Celeste
Beaver Creek
Hole-in-the Wall
Lorain
John Bara
Bara
Elyria
House
Hole-in-the-Wall
Lorain Park
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Record May freeze shatters old cold day mark in Ohio
A cold northern sweep dropped temperatures to 32 in Elyria between 4 and 6 am, beating the 1959 record of 33. Cleveland also posted 31, the latest spring freeze in 12 years, while a 52 degree high contrasted with a 68 normal. Frost warnings aided crop protection ahead of another frost expected tonight.
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Elyria
Ray Diederich
North Ridgeville
Cleveland
National Weather Service
Inland Frost Warning And Warm Thursday Outlook
Inland frost warning issued for tonight with clear skies and lows around 35 to 40. Light variable winds. Thursday predicts sunny and warmer weather with a high near 70 and a near zero percent chance of rain. Details on Page A-3.
Tractor trailer overturns on turnpike exit ramp near Elyria
Firefighters and Martin Towing Service workers survey a tractor trailer that overturned on the eastbound exit ramp at Exit 8 of the Ohio Turnpike at 4 p.m. Tuesday. Charapata Trucking Co. wagon carried 626 boxes of packaged beef. The driver from Greenfield Wisconsin sustained arm and head cuts, treated and released from Elyria Memorial Hospital.
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Elyria
Martin Towing Service
North Olmsted
Ohio Turnpike
Charapata Trucking Co. Tig
Greenfield
Wisc
Elyria Memorial Hospital
John Kenney
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Ridgeville
City Council
Poppee's Popcorn Inc
Midview, Keystone Close
Kenneth Farnsworth
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Eri
Ellen Dekam
Miranda
Cascade Park
Gene Krebs
Celeste Bill
Bara Said
Mercury
Glen Miller
C-T
Accent On
Eceke
Oat Tal Lalate Fé Entertainment
Oberlin Betegy
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