Elyria City Schools to study new administration building
After nearly a decade of delays, the Elyria City board voted to hire Rode Kaplan Curtis Woodard as architects to study and design a new administration building. Superintendent De Thomas L. Showalter noted a 1963 bond funded partial project and a 1966 report showing current facilities inadequate, with about 139000 dollars left in the Building Fund for the effort.
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Elyria City
City Schools
Garford Building
Clark Street
Rode
de Thomas L. Showalter
Elyria Schools
Construc
Fifth Street
Avon Lake board eyes 145000 project cap and 6000 fund use
Avon Lake school board considers tapping 6000 from the Permanent Improvement Fund toward building costs while noting 145000 would not cover total construction. Plans aim to stay under the limit as they submit specs, with other actions including delaying a 128 million bond decision, approving a 50 cent per student increase, and arranging facility use at St John Lutheran.
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Ben V. Myers
Board of Education
Garford
Lorain County
Huron County Official Opposes Western Waste Water Plans
Huron County Commissioner Maurice Smith rejected Army Corps of Engineers plans for western Ohio waste water storage and treatment near Huron County. Col Robert Moore presented twelve plans with costs up to 444 million dollars and a 12 to 15 year timeline for possible implementation.
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Norwalk
Ohio
Army Corps of Engineers
Huron County
Maurice Smith
Cuyahoga County
Robert Moore
Buffalo
Northeastern
Moore
Bellevue
Monroeville
Seneca County
Crawford County
Ashland County
Ared Farers
Don Wiles
Colorado State University
May ballot to include Ridgeville school issue resubmitted
North Ridgeville proposes a $5 million school issue on the May ballot. The board and School Superintendent Roger T Beitler plan to restate the motion at 8 pm Thursday after learning primary election is May B, not May 1, and approved the submission unanimously.
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North Ridgeville
Schol
Roger T Beitler
School board weighs March or May special election
The board deliberated whether to hold a March or May bond issue election for Lear North Elementary space. Beitler urged March to start construction sooner, while others favored May to cut costs and allow planning time. The May plan passed 4-0 after an initial 2-2 amendment vote.
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Beverly Reising
Daniel Taylor
Taylor
Reising
Dale Pepin
Jeanne Shultzaberger
Francis Halugan
Beitler
Bettler
Lear North
Jaycox Road
Drake Avenue
North Ridgeville
Beiter
Two Convicted Murderers Guillotined in Paris
Paris report states Claude Buffet aged 89 and Roger Bontemps 45 were beheaded at La Sante Jail marking France’s first capital punishment under President Pompidou since March 1969. The men killed two hostages in a prison riot, underscoring France’s retained death penalty and presidential power to commute or set aside executions.
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Paris
UPI
Georges Pompidou
Claude Buffet
Roger Bontemps
la Sante
Charles de Gaulle
Jéan Quvier
France
Amherst mayor keeps court as budget review rests
South Amherst Mayor Larry Knoble told council a US Supreme Court ruling allows the mayoral court to continue as the court revenue is not a substantial budget portion. The court brought under $5,000 last year and $3,000 the year before, while the general fund exceeds $50,000. Ferguson said trials could be moved to Oberlin Municipal Court with waivers only, and no reply was received to his inquiry about 10 percent of fines kept by Oberlin. The planning board meets Thursday, Dec 14, and a Dec 18 council meeting is set with NOACA appointments. regular meeting moved to Dec 25.
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South Amherst
George Ferguson
US Supreme Court
Eourt
Ferguson
Council
Larry Knoble
Oberlin
Knoble
Lorain County
Noaca
Northeast Areawide Coordinating Agency
Street planning sought for eastern industrial park in Elyria
Elyria City Council weighing a plan to build a street and install utilities to serve an east side industrial park. The 740 foot initial segment from Taylor Street would cost about 60 000 to the city, with developers paying for the remainder to East Broad Street once ready, and a 60 foot right of way dedication along 2 500 feet. The measure urged developers to back the project to attract industry.
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Elyria
Area Council
Pasy
Taylor Street
East Broad Street
Robert Klemoeder
Corporation Line
Theodore Lakovy
Emergency toll free calls reach Elyria Ohio patrol post
Wellington and Oberlin residents may call the Elyria post toll free for emergency assistance via the local operator. The post also provides weather and road condition reports for nearby states and adjoining areas, improving access to up to date travel information.
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Elyria
Ohio State Patrol
Wellington and
Oberlin
Wellington and Oberlin
First day as student coordinator at North Olmsted High
Thomas Kennedy’s arrival as student coordinator meets rough start as students seek help. A pregnant girl, a drugs-struggling boy, and several others visit Kennedy’s office reporting trouble, ending with a chorus of “Welcome Mr Kennedy” as the day finishes.
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North Olmsted
Thomas Kennedys
North Olmsted High School
Kennedy
Council delays Foster Avenue storm sewer plan amid cost questions
City council pauses action on a Foster Avenue storm sewer project estimated at 120000 dollars with 9151 city share and 28500 assessed to adjacent property owners. officials want residents meeting before proceeding and to set priority projects for the finance committee. Meantime plans exist for a gravity-flow sanitary sewer on Rt 1113 to serve Tra valgar Square development.
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Robert Krlemoeder
Foster Avenue
Richard P Seward
D-1
Turnpike crash kills area man
A Sandusky man, Thomas Hopkins, 64, died after his tractor trailer rear ended a semi on the Ohio Turnpike near Elyria Township. Bessie Coradi, 49, of Bettendorf, Iowa, escaped injury as her car spun out when avoiding a disabled vehicle. Hopkins’ rig then rammed the back of Leonard Ellis’ semi. The crash is under investigation.
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Elyria Township
Thomas Hopkins
Schiller Ave
Lorain Community Hospital
Bessie Corad
Bettendorf
Town
Leonard Ellis
Rhisdell NY
Hopkin
Elias
Sumatra Tiger Size Details From A Small Exhibit
The Sumatra Tigers measure about 5 feet in length with a tail roughly half as long as the body. The creature weighs around 250 pounds.
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Sumatra
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