Oberlin News

OBERLIN - It's the one thing most freshmen need to become a championship tennis player: the mental aspect of the game.

Essie "Chee-Chee" Johnson , 63, of Elyria, passed away unexpectedly at her home Monday, May 13, 2013.

I was chopping vegetables for dinner recently when my 14-year-old daughter, Grace, disappeared with the unusable end of the bok choy.

A Vermilion teenager was taken to a Cleveland hospital Saturday morning after he rolled his vehicle near Oberlin-Elyria Road, according to the State Highway Patrol.

The Lorain County General Health District's Vital Statistics Office houses the birth and death records beginning in 1908 to the present.

A single clove of garlic with its skin removed can make beautiful flower petals.

There are notable headlines scattered all over this morning. A racist picture on Instagram has led to discipline for Euclid High School students ; students at Oberlin want to protest companies' involvement in the West Bank; Lorain County is too broke to match a federal transit grant and so will return $1.5 million; failure of an operating-expenses ... (more)

Ohio Dance Theatre will be performing Stravinsky's seductive " Firebird " on Friday, May 10th and Saturday, May 11th at 7:00 p.m. in Oberlin's Hall Auditorium .

ELYRIA - A proposed natural gas pipeline being contemplated by a consortium of three energy companies could cut across parts of Lorain and Medina counties.The Nexus Gas Transmission line, which would carry natural gas extracted from the Utica shale fields in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio up to Michigan and on into Ontario, is still on the ... (more)

OBERLIN - Roger and Cindy McVetta didn't get into supermodified racing for the money.

I was chopping vegetables for dinner recently when my 14-year-old daughter, Grace, disappeared with the unusable end of the bok choy.

The NACS Foundation, a subsidiary of Oberlin, Ohio-based National Association of College Stores , recently named its 2013 Collegiate Retailer of the Year.

One Avon student really knows his wiring. Ben Arnold recently took second place in electrical troubleshooting at the Air Conditiong Contractors of America contest.

Here's your chance to treat your mom to a lavish buffet to celebrate her special day and you won't even have to travel very far.

Harold Joseph Smith, 82, of Oberlin, passed away Monday, May 6 2013 at Mercy Hospital in Lorain, after a short illness.Cowling Funeral Home Inc.

Leroy Shumate, 67, of Elyria, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, April 30, 2013, in his home.

MEMBER of Parliament for St Andrew West Rural Paul Buchanan has come out in praise of Transport and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies, whose ministry he criticised last year for failing to act promptly to fix break a ways in the constituency.

Charles Campbell Sheppard, 96, of Oberlin, died Sunday, April 28, 2013, at Kendal at Oberlin.Dicken Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elyria, will announce arrangements.

Virginia "Ginny" Buchs, 88, of Henrietta Township, passed away Thursday, May 2, 2013, at Mill Manor Nursing Home in Vermilion, surrounded by her family.

Nicki Minaj already employs theatrics in her day job as a rapper and, to a slightly lesser extent, her weeknight job as a judge on "American Idol." Now she's moving to the big screen in a new revenge comedy starring Cameron Diaz.