Local spelling champ advances to next round
Quay Roberts a 13 year old from Olmsted Falls and Lake Ridge Academy in North Ridgeville advances in the 76th Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington DC. She correctly spelled ogiver defined as agival by Merriam Webster and joined 175 spellers in round two as written tests reduce the field to 84. The champion will earn 22000 dollars and the bee features 251 top spellers age 11 to 14. the third round begins today with a winner expected by day end.
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Quay Roberts
Quay
Olnsted Falls
Lake Ridge Academy
North Ridgeville
Chronicle- Telegram
Lorain County
Washington
D.C
Hilary Sparks-Roberts
Kevin Roberts
Conor
Jim Hartline
Educational Service Center
Scripps Howard
Ohio
Sparks-Roberts
Sparks- Roberts
Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Transit Board faces funding cuts and rule changes
Vice chairman Herman Larkins and Alfred Taylor say commissioners are weighing options as the Transit Board loses stipends of 620 per meeting. An opinion found alternates aren’t allowed, prompting removal of two alternates and sparking heartbreak for Mary Butler. Betty Blair notes other boards aren’t paid and urges cost alignment with revenues.
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Herman Larkins
Alfred Taylor
LCT
Taylor
Transit
Mary Butler
Chronicle Telegram publication details note Elyria address
The Chronicle Telegram is published daily except Christmas by the Lorain County Printing and Publishing Company. It lists the Elyria address 225 East Ave, Elyria OH 44035 and postmaster contact as well as a box for address changes.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Lorain County Printing & Publishing Company
JoAnn Traut
Chronicle
Lorain County Printing and Publishing Company
East Ave
Elyra
Elyria
The
Chronicle- Telegram
F.C
Akron to test fingerprint scan for school meals
Akron officials plan fall rollout of fingerprint scanning in 15,000 middle and high school students to reduce stigma and streamline free and reduced meals. The $700,000 system, already used in Garfield Heights, requires no full prints and lets parents prepay or opt out.
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AKRON
Debra Foulk
Teria
Garfield Heights
Cleveland
Ohio
Dawn Wheeler
Food Service
Wheeler
Sagem Morpho Inc
Tacoma
Wash
Ohio town protests rail bypass project meeting
About 50 residents and business owners gathered as ODOT discussed a proposed rail bypass that would route north of Route 58 and reconnect near Route 18. Opponents cite emergency access concerns and extended downtown disruption while proponents cite traffic relief.
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Ohio Department of Transportation
Clay Street
Elm Street
ODOT
Mike Ciotola
Gerald Phillips
Residents’ Coalition
Phillips
Helen Dronsfield
Proposed Timetable and Noise Funds Sparks Resident Critique
A village outlines a timeline for an underpass project from 2006 to 2008 while local resident Phillips denounces it as a waste of taxpayer money citing noise mitigation funds from CSX. Officials defend the use of mitigation dollars, saying they were not earmarked for individual residents. Comments on the proposal are invited through June 28 to Beth Fulton at TransSystems Corporation in Cleveland.
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Phillips
CSC
CSX
Barb O’keefe
O'Keefe
Beth Fulton
TransSystems Corporation
Public Square
Suite 1650
Cleveland
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Transit Board
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Bdicken
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Rudy Dicks
Path Ewald
Scott Brown
Mike Buettner
METRO
Pam McMillan
Day
Matt Westerhold
Ragt
Kevin Aprile
Steve Brown
Bruce Bishop
Gene Krebs
the Chronicle
A.C. Hulett
A. Cooper
Hudnutt
Gary Cazart
Arthur D. Hudnutt
Philip W. Kelly
Sun
U.S
Barb Stephens
STIHL
Worcester
Lorain Rd
Ridgeville
Akron Schools
La-Z-Boy
Amherst Furniture
Buckeye
Echo
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Chigan Daly
Oberlin
Pittsfield
Brighton
Columbia
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