Rt. 511 west of Oberlin closed June 1 for a small bridge replacement. Ohio Department of Transportation District 3 spokesperson Christine Myers said the road will be closed for 30 days for replacement of a small culvert bridge about 0.3 mile north of Quarry Road. The detour is Rt. 18 east to Rt. 58 north, […]
A Lorain County judge has modified the bond of John Howard, but not in the way prosecutors had requested. Howard is an Oberlin man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. According to court documents, on Thursday, Lorain County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark Betleski modified Howard’s bond conditions, requiring him to have no personal unsupervised […]
Lorain County coroner Paul Matus is one of the most respected public officials in Lorain County. But he is stepping down at the end of June due to a lack of respect for his office by the county. Matus, who was first elected coroner in 1992, submitted his resignation, effective June 30, on Wednesday, May […]
Memorial Day services in Oberlin will be held at 9 a.m., Monday, May 30, at Wright Park, corner of Rt. 58 and Vine Street, with Duane Anderson, chair of the city human relations commission and youth minister at Mt. Zion Baptist Church serving as guest speaker. The Kipton/Camden/Henrietta Memorial Day parade and program honors the […]
Oberlin College Commencement will not move to Sunday, at least not for the next two years. College registrar Elizabeth Clerkin, chair of the academic calendar committee, said a proposal to move Commencement from Memorial Day to Sunday the week before Memorial Day weekend did not have enough support to bring it to a vote. “Essentially any change […]
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OCM, LLC (OCM), an affiliate of Versa Capital Management, Inc. today announced it has acquired substantially all assets of Ohio Community Media, LLC. Ohio Community Media owns and operates newspapers, publications and websites that serve communities in northern and western Ohio including in Lorain County The Oberlin News-Tribune, The Wellington Enterprise, Amherst News-Times and the […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A cooler spring has left Ohio's tick population hungry, ready to feast and probably willing to stick around longer. Ohio State University entomologist Glen Needham says as the weather warms up, the bloodsucking bugs will — in his words — "go gangbusters." He tells The Columbus Dispatch the state's tick season […]