Ada Lilian Clark

Ada Lil­ian Clark   Ada Lil­ian “Sis” Clark, of Ober­lin, died Mon­day, Nov. 28, 2011, at Lorain Mercy Hos­pi­tal. She was 93. She was born June 12, 1918, in Not­ting­ham, Eng­land. Her par­ents, George E. Will­bond and Lily Smith, in 1893, with four chil­dren left Not­ting­ham, Eng­land, and trav­eled to Amer­ica. Land­ing at Ellis Island, the family […]

Helen Josephine Supers

Helen Josephine Supers, 95, of Ober­lin, died at Allen Med­ical Cen­ter on Mon­day, Nov. 21, 2011, after a short ill­ness. She grew up in South Amherst and lived in Ober­lin most of her life. In her early years she worked as a beau­ti­cian and after rais­ing her chil­dren she worked as co-owner for the family […]

Shan­non Gold­smith , D.O. of Mercy Pri­mary Care in LaGrange addresses your ques­tions regard­ing the flu. Dr. Gold­smith believes in car­ing for the whole per­son – not just their phys­i­cal needs, but their emo­tional and spir­i­tual needs as well. Her spe­cial inter­ests include children’s pre­ven­ta­tive health and women’s health. To sched­ule an appoint­ment with Dr. […]

Laura Allyne Cramer

Laura Allyne (nee Gwin) Cramer, 91, of Ober­lin, died Sat­ur­day, Nov. 12, 2011 at Wel­come Nurs­ing Home. She was born Oct. 19, 1920, in Kosciusko, Miss., to Kelly Allen and Dena (nee Elling­ton) Gwin. A grad­u­ate of Mill­saps Col­lege, she began her career as a teacher before serv­ing in the U.S. Navy as a lieu­tenant during […]

City budget talks: every department told to cut 10 percent

The city admin­is­tra­tion is ask­ing all depart­ments to tighten their belts and cut 2012 bud­get requests by 10 per­cent. City coun­cil held bud­get work ses­sions Wednes­day and Thurs­day nights to allow city depart­ments to present their pro­posed bud­gets for 2012. In a memo to city coun­cil, city man­ager Eric Noren­berg and finance direc­tor Sal­va­tore Talarico, stated […]

Year of politics, away from home

“Fresh­man grope and floun­der in a new envi­ron­ment.” (1966 A.U. Talon): I was born and raised in Ober­lin. The 1965-66 aca­d­e­mic year at Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., was my first (and last) real time away from home. I lived in room 420 Letts Hall, a floor made up of fresh­men and sopho­mores. The room was […]

Mt. Zion marks 125th anniversary

This Sun­day, Mount Zion Bap­tist Church will be cel­e­brat­ing its 125th anniver­sary with two spe­cial events. Sun­day will be the cul­mi­na­tion of events the church has held the past few months which have included con­certs, plays, a fam­ily and friends day, as well as “Din­ner Around the World,” which offered dishes from dif­fer­ent coun­tries worldwide. […]

Man killed at Russia Road home

A Lorain man was shot and killed Fri­day night in New Rus­sia Town­ship. Stephen Miha­lak Jr., 46, was shot in the chest at the home of his brother, Don­ald Miha­lak, and was pro­nounced dead by a Life Flight physi­cian at Lorain County Regional Air­port. Accord­ing to sources, Stephen Miha­lak died on his way to the […]