Chippewa Lake News

The Big Dipper still stands mostly intact on the grounds of what used to be Chippewa Amusement Park.

While most people are sleeping in on New Years Day, an energetic few are planning to participate in a bicycle ride around Medina County, no matter what the weather has in store for them.

Here's an encore installment of "thankful things" sent in by Gazette readers. Each letter and e-mail was a blessing to read.

The dilapidated old bath house at the old Chippewa Lake, with FUNHOUSE letters on it from a movie production, still stands, with no roof on the structure in Chippewa Lake, Ohio on Sept.

For a safe and happy Halloween, Sheriff Neil F. Hassinger advises: Parents should make sure their kids can't trip on their costumes, can see out of masks and know how to cross the street safely.

This Week Monday The March of Dimes will benefit from the 11th Annual Signature Chefs Auction from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Quaker Square Inn, 135 S. Broadway, downtown Akron.

The city of Kent was tentatively approved for a $250,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on Monday to host a canoe and kayak staging ground along the banks of the Cuyahoga River.

A Chippewa Lake man was killed Saturday afternoon when his motorcycle went off the roadway.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal motorcycle accident that happened Saturday afternoon in Liverpool Township.

INTRUDERS, SHELDON ROAD: At 4 P.M. Aug. 27 four men entered a woman's house in the 15600 block of Sheldon on what police said were "false pretenses and were looking in closets and drawers." ASSAULT, HOLLAND ROAD: A boy assaulted a second boy Aug.

Applications are now available for the federal stimulus-funded Recovery Zone Bond program, for which Medina County is eligible to receive $22 million in low-interest bonds.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, MAGNOLIA: Police were called to a Magnolia Drive residence Aug.

Parma Mayor Dean E. DePiero and members of the local Ukrainian-American community are working on an exciting project.

Parma Mayor Dean E. DePiero and members of the local Ukrainian-American community are working on an exciting project.

In the last 18 months, there have been eight fatal motorcycle-related crashes in Medina County, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol - four in August 2008 and the most recent July 20 in Harrisville Township.

Council voted in favor of filling two part-time positions during its meeting Monday.

In addition to his family, Keith Riedel has two great loves: boats and making things with his hands.

Celebration at Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway with Soul'd Out at 7:30 p.m. Fireworks at 9:45 p.m., synchronized to music.

The soft tapping filled the community room as the campers created pounded flower T-shirts as mementos of this year's Nature Study Camp at Friendly Hills Grange Camp on 5880 Friendly Hills Road.

The State Highway Patrol and Medina Township fire department officials have been looking for "Superman" -- a passerby who helped pull a burning car off another vehicle, saving an accident victim's life.