School year opens as area districts report smooth start
Elyria West High School welcomes 500 students in the new building the first in over a century for the city. Total Elyria enrollment near 14,071 with minor disruptions from a vandalism incident at Elyria High and a fatality affecting nearby districts. Wellington holds services for Douglas Moody as 175 of 600 attend the funeral. Olmsted Township reports a traffic mishap near a school bus and Avon Lake counts about 3,500 students. Nationwide, several Ohio districts open amid teacher strikes in Youngstown and Gallipolis impacting 1,200 teachers and 23,000 students.
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Elyria West High School
James Fitzwater
Lorain County
Cleveland
Channel 3
Elyria
Don E. Swartz
Elyria High School
Wellington
National Honor Society
Douglas M. Moody
Moody
Lorain
Norton Funeral Home
First United Methodist Church
Olmsted Township
Tamera Bennett
Lois Bennett
Cook Rd
Southwest General Hospital
Berea
Avon Lake
Robert Robinson
Delia Moves Toward Louisiana Threatening Coast
Tropical storm Delia nears hurricane strength as it aims at the Louisiana coast with 70 mph winds. Warnings and evacuations are urged from Palacios Texas to Morgan City Louisiana. 5 to 10 inch rains and 4 to 6 foot tides forecast, with Sabine Pass and Brazosport isolated. A death is reported as a resident died of a heart attack while preparing to move to higher ground.
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Galveston. Tex
UPL
Delia
Louisiana
National Weather Service
Palacios
Middle Texas
Morgan City
Weather Service
Texas
Sabine Pass
Brazosport
Paul Sarver
Texas-Louisiana
Lake Charles
la. Delia
Weather Outlook Turns Cooler With Clouds and Showers
A cooler pattern develops with mostly cloudy skies tonight and tomorrow. Rain chances are 40 percent tonight and zero percent tomorrow. Low tonight in the upper 70s. high tomorrow 80 to 83. Winds south to southwest 10 to 15 mph tonight. Sunrise 6 57 am Sunset 7 36 pm. Air Pollution Index 66 Good. Elyria 22 Lorain 23.
August food prices dip slightly but stay above March levels
An Associated Press market basket survey shows prices eased a bit toward September but remain about seven percent higher than six months prior. Pork chops eggs and cookies drive changes while poultry offsets some increases. The six month check spans March 1 August 13 and September 1 across 12 cities.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Philadelphia
Lorain County’s Cheryl Yourkvitch Waves At Miss America
Cheryl Yourkvitch Miss Lorraine County, Ohio, smiles at fans along the Atlantic City boardwalk during the Miss America Pageant opening. She is among nine siblings and the first Lorain County entrant in the pageant.
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Cheryl Yourkvitch
Lorain
Atantic City
N.J
Cheryl
Lorain County
School phobia in children described by experts
Margaret, a once bright 13 year old, becomes silent and misses school due to fear of separation from home. Doctors discuss school phobia as a rare but serious separation anxiety affecting kindergarten and early junior high students with one in 30 children potentially affected.
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Margaret
Milton Weiner
Detroit Public Schools Department of School Social Work
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