Lagrange News

Beverly "Bubbles" Monday, 57, died Thursday, May 23, 2013 at her home. Born in Elyria, she was the daughter of George Jackson "Jack" and Vida Holloway Monday.

Josephine "Jo" Aldrich, 88, of LaGrange, passed away Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, after a short illness.

LAGRANGE - Pittsfield Township Trustee Mark McConnell was again removed from the Rural Lorain County Water Authority board Wednesday after questions were raised about the legality of a secret ballot process used to vote him off the board last week.

LAGRANGE - The Rural Lorain County Water Authority board's use of secret ballots in a vote Wednesday to remove Mark McConnell from the board violated Ohio's Sunshine Laws, according to an open meetings expert and a 2011 opinion issued by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.

In a secret vote, the Rural Lorain County Water Authority board voted 17 to 9 Wednesday night to remove Pittsfield Township representative Mark McConnell after four other board members brought charges that McConnell had tried to get some members removed from the board.

Nearly a third of the county's population could be paying less money to have their trash and recyclables picked up if talks to contract with a single trash hauler bear fruit.Whichever firm may eventually win a contract to serve Avon, Avon Lake and a projected 13 townships at last count, that company will bag a very big prize."We're probably talking ... (more)

Elyria policeWednesday, April 247:27 p.m. - 100 block West Ave., a man told police a laptop that was sent to his old home was stolen after a mix-up through FedEx.