Valley City News

DAMAGE, BRANDYWINE: One Medina neighborhood endured a rash of vandal activity after midnight on Nov.

Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and 1982 Ohio Wesleyan University graduate Byron Pitts will speak at OWU on Thursday, Oct.

Two employees at NASA Glenn Research Center here were among members of a team that won an award for lessening noise in a turbofan aircraft engine.

SUSPICIOUS SITUATION, SANDALWOOD LANE: A resident reported Saturday that they received a suspicious letter from an inmate at the Grafton Correctional Institution.

Just to get my bearings, I looked the words up in a dictionary. Conservationist: A person who advocates conservation, especially of natural resources.

With the annual frog jump behind them, township residents leap from one weekend of fun to another.

Giovanni Lucarelli, 3 1/2, of Valley City enjoying the Lil Scrambler ride during the 2009 Medina County Fair.

Medina County commissioners will spend three days next week in Wadsworth hosting the annual County Commissioners Association of Ohio's summer conference.

The Valley City Frog Jump Festival is just a hop and a jump away. The 48th annual festival will run 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at Mill Stream Park off Maple Street.

FREMONT -- The city is undergoing updates for the 2009 Traffic Signal Improvement Project this week.

Buckeye Library, 6625 Wolff Road, Medina. The Valley City Garden Club will have an educational garden exhibit from 12-3:45 p. m. and also on Saturday.

The Ballville Township residents brush drop off is from 8 a.m. to midnight Saturday at Universal Farms, 219 E. Stahl Road, Fremont.

The city's annual July 3 fireworks are on for Friday. The show will be funded by donations received from businesses, organizations and private individuals.

FREMONT -- The city has started this summer's traffic improvement project. Linward Electric of Valley City, Ohio is the contractor for the improvements which include pouring foundations, erecting new poles, placement of signal heads with LED lights, placement of new control panels, removing old traffic signals and power restoration.

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.

BRUNSWICK Fire officials continue to investigate the cause of a Sunday evening blaze that caused between $300,000 and $500,000 in damage to a Laurel Road apartment complex.

A working fire at the Aspen Lake Apartments over the holiday weekend enlisted seven fire departments and caused extensive damage.

This will prove to be the summer of the "alternative energy" outdoor power tools.

A 35-foot-high, 150-year-old barn was reduced to smoldering rubble in less than a half-hour Monday by a fire that reached heights nearly twice its size.

Chemical Processing introduces "Comical Processing," featuring drawings by award-winning cartoonist Jerry King.