ELYRIA — For the first time in the history of the county, a county commissioner seat was empty when the commissioners held their organizational meeting Monday morning. On Sunday, former commissioner Ted Kalo resigned from his position after →
AMHERST — Peggie Pentito’s rental home received the most damage of the three surrounding houses affected by a fire in a detached garage Sunday night. “If you walk around to the other side, you can see all the way through it, →
AMHERST — Peggie Pentito was spending a Sunday evening at home with her family when disaster struck at their home on Cornell Avenue. Her home and two others caught fire after a detached garage at 190 Harris Road became engulfed. Amherst →
LORAIN — Following tensions at Lorain Schools’ CEO David Hardy’s Thursday’s town hall meeting, Saturday’s 19th annual Speak Up, Speak Out saw one local leader apologizing for actions at the Thursday meeting. Speak Up, →
LORAIN — Ted Kalo, now former Lorain County commissioner, welcomed his selection as the next Lorain municipal clerk of courts Sunday night. After the votes of about 35 members of the Democratic Central Committee were counted in the Lorain →
The county’s sole domestic violence shelter was recently awarded a $20,000 grant from The Mary Kay Foundation. The unrestricted grant is a welcome addition to the operating budget of the Genesis House, said Executive Director Virginia Beckman, →
When she first heard of the Vermilion sophomore who was charged this week with multiple counts of rape, she knew. “It’s happened again. They didn’t do what they promised they would do, and now there are more kids,” she said. →
Federal employees went without their paychecks Friday due to the government shut down. Sparked by President Donald Trump’s demand for funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the longest-running partial government shut down has left →
LORAIN — When Raleigh, North Carolina, residents Greg and Molly Price visited family in Lorain over the holidays, they brought with them their two dogs — Mojo and Moxie. However, on Dec. 26, Mojo, a white and black/gray, 8-pound, 7-year- →
ELYRIA — On its first delivery, the newest truck in the Second Harvest Food Bank’s fleet was met with thanks and praise from an Elyria faith community Friday when it dropped nearly 6 tons of food on the doorstep of the Beyond the Walls →
ELYRIA — A Lorain County businessman is hoping to save part of a historic building downtown for future use, if he can. Workers were taking down the rear portion of the Wooster Block at 529 Broad St. this week. Small excavators and backhoes →
ELYRIA — A hearing Friday about the ability of a Sheffield Lake man to retain and pay for his own attorney turned tense at moments as the defendant stood up in an “aggressive” manner and raised his voice at a prosecutor and a judge →
If you’ve been outside to hike this winter, there is no doubt you’ve encountered one thing no matter where you’ve been. Mud! The roller-coaster cycle of temperatures mixed with rain, snow and snow melts have made it soggy to step →
Lorain Schools CEO David Hardy was escorted out of Thursday’s Town Hall by district security after receiving pointed questions from community members. →