Avon, OH

Lorain County, OH

Elyria, OH

3: Keystone 23-6 4: Elyria Catholic 16-8 Watch list: Lorain (13-3), Wellington (12-13), Westlake (15-10) Crop comments: A lot of talent departed from the 2022 season. However, up-and-coming players and returning standouts return for the upcoming 2023 season. Expect conference races in the Lorain County League, Great Lakes Conference and Southwestern Conference to be full of drama and go down to the wire. North Ridgeville and Amherst are the defending SWC co-champs, but Avon doesn’t look like a team to be slept on either. Keystone brings back second-team All-Ohioan Hannah Gurich and replaces Lily Cassell with Delaney Peters, who has a lot of raw talent inside the circle. On the other hand, Brookside’s looking to reload with a solid core of seniors. It will be interesting to see how the defense adjusts to the departure of pitcher Leah Musall. Elyria Catholic seems to be the favorite to win back-to-back GLC championships. The Panthers will be without co-Lorain County Ms. Softball award winner Annika Bredel, but numerous young talents who showed out from the year prior will come back. The best part about the Panthers is a lot of them are still underclassmen. North Olmsted appears to be Elyria Catholic’s biggest competition in the GLC West.

2023 Morning Journal softball preseason Top of the Crop

Cincinnati, OH

Taylor Belza, So., Elyria Catholic: Belza was an all-county and GLC honorable mention as a freshman, slashing .329/.407/.513 slashline. He’s currently committed to West Virginia. Hayden Blosser, Jr., Avon Lake: Committed to the University of Michigan and only a junior, Blosser will be a captain and key cog in...

2023 Morning Journal high school baseball player watch list

Indiana State

Lorain, OH

Lorain fifth-grader Jaxon Ramos is one step away from having his name on a plaque in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Already a state champion of Ohio, Jaxon, 10, triumphed again in the Elks Hoop Shoot contest and earned his place as the champion of the contest’s Great Lakes Region 4 in South Bend, Ind.

Lorain free throw extraordinaire crowned best in Great Lakes region

Cleveland, OH

Complete with anniversary banners hung up around the parish, St. Mary Church, 309 W. Seventh St. in Lorain, is celebrating its 150th anniversary throughout 2023, according to church leader the Rev. Daniel O. Divis. Divis said he and the parish staff have yet to schedule most of the anniversary festivities.

St. Mary Catholic Church in Lorain celebrates 150 years

Washington State

Oberlin, OH

Oberlin College junior Darius Butler was selected as a 2023 Frederick Douglass Global Fellow, an honor awarding him a scholarship to participate in a three-continent global journey to Washington, D.C., Cape Town and Dublin for a comparative study of social justice leadership, according to a news release. The Government of...

Oberlin College student Darius Butler awarded prestigious Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship

Avon Lake, OH

Avon Lake’s annual Memorial Day parade is looking for marchers, according to city program director Jacqui Hoffman. The yearly tradition has featured various groups in the past, such as veterans, local human interest groups and high school marching bands, Hoffman said. Now, the city is putting out a call...

Avon Lake seeking Memorial Day Parade participants

FireFish Arts will present ArtSong II April 21 in downtown Lorain, according to a news release. This performance is a not to be missed — immersive once-in-a-lifetime” concert event pairing Grammy award-winning classical pianist Angelin Chang with video projection artist Kevin Jackson, the release said. Creating a spellbinding...

FireFish Arts set to present ArtSong II on April 21 in downtown Lorain

“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and “Mary had a Little Lamb” are stable songs that all young musicians learn to play during the first weeks of instrument lessons. For students at Helen Steiner Rice and Stevan Dohanos Elementary schools, those songs and a few others were recently part of piano recitals for fourth- and fifth-grade students taking keyboarding/piano lessons as a part of the district’s fine arts expansion that kicked off this school year.

Piano lessons are hitting all the right notes with Lorain Schools students

Lorain County Community College’s NEO LaunchNET is preparing to celebrate Women’s History Month on March 28 during its first ever event in partnership with HHW Ohio. HHW Ohio, formerly known as Hard Hatted Women of Ohio, began in 1979 with the mission to engage industry and community leaders to match women who need lifelong careers with employers who need a qualified skilled workforce.

LCCC’s NEO LaunchNET to hold conference for Women’s History Month on March 28

Wellington, FL

The village of Wellington hosted its State of Wellington address early March 23 with a record-breaking crowd of public officials, school staff and students as well as residents and many more. “What an amazing turnout; this is a record by the way,” Terry Mazzone, chairman of the State of Wellington...

State of Wellington address brings in record-breaking crowd

Richland County, OH

Sandusky, OH

Since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, the Community Action Commission of Erie, Huron and Richland Counties Inc. (CACEHR) has been busy with various programs to help the community. From utility and mortgage assistance, to car, dental and food programs, none has been more impactful than...

Community Action Commission of Erie, Huron and Richland Counties Inc. programs benefit region

All four Avon Lake City Schools elementary schools recently kicked off the One District, One Book community reading initiative with assemblies at each school, according to a news release. Drama students from Avon Lake High School visited each elementary school in the district and performed a special skit with clues...

Avon Lake City Schools kicks off One District, One Book

Alabama State

As part of its Memorial Day remembrance, American Legion Post 211, 31972 Walker Road in Avon Lake, is selling ceramic poppy flowers. Funds from the project, led by former Post 211 Commander Mike Schrull, will help support the American Legion auxiliary. The poppies will be planted in the field attached...

American Legion Post 211 in Avon Lake selling ceramic poppies

The Horizon Science Academy of Lorain, 760 Tower Blvd., is proving that small things can make a difference. The school’s beloved annual Penny Wars fundraiser took place throughout the month of February and ended March 3. “It’s one of the activities that brings the school together,” said Student Council...

Horizon Science Academy of Lorain fundraiser brings school together, donates to Red Cross

The Lorain Port and Finance Authority and the city of Lorain, with the support of Team NEO and JobsOhio, are right to release Request for Proposal (RFP) documents for three waterfront development opportunities that could spur more economic development for the downtown area. The three properties along the Black River...

Lorain city, Port Authority make right move to seek waterfront development proposals | Editorial

The Lorain Fraternal Order of Police Associates Lodge No. 46, held their second annual Pancake brunch event on March 25 at SS Cyril and Methodius Church, 3056 Reeves Ave., in Lorain. Bringing together many people from throughout Lorain county, the brunch was determined a success by the FOP, thanks to...

Lorain: Bunnies and breakfast bring out police supporters

A development group is making its way through the planning process with Lorain public officials as it seeks to build a multi-family apartment complex on West Erie Avenue. Silverhills of Lorain would be built near the intersection of Kolbe Road and West Erie, near one of the city’s fire departments and Mercy Health – Lorain Hospital.

‘Silverhills at Lorain’ to bring high-end apartments to the west side

Houston, OH

Amherst, OH

The first event of the newly reimagined Shops at Sandstone Village “Fabulous and Affordable Finds” went off without a hitch despite a slight drizzle March 25 as they welcomed back hundreds of visitors to their 763 Milan Ave. location. The village, owned and maintained by the Amherst Historical...

Amherst: First Sandstone sale of season goes off without problems

Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals are collaborating on a program to support diverse suppliers that must be headquartered within Lorain, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit or Wayne counties. The health systems are committed to leveraging their shared purchasing power and resources to improve the economic health of the...

Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals collaborate to support local diverse suppliers

The city of Elyria will spend $30,000 to install security cameras as well as new fencing to keep people out of the Republic Steel Quarry site after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its five-year review on the property. The EPA just completed its sixth five-year review March 20 on...

Elyria to spend $30K to secure quarry site

A 29-year-old Lorain man was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in Lorain County Common Pleas Court in connection with the 2021 fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man in Elyria. Raython Fields, formerly of Randall Street, was sentenced by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Miraldi to life...

Lorain man sentenced to life in prison for fatal shooting

The first phase of the long awaited approximate $12 million Sandusky Justice Center project is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. Plans for the Justice Center project has been in the works for years and the design plans were completed last year, according to Thomas Horsman, communications manager for the Sandusky city manager’s office.

First phase of Sandusky Justice Center project expected to be complete this year

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Elyria Catholic’s Levi Ellis commits to Hillsdale College for football

Almost every award that Elyria Catholic’s running back Levi Ellis could obtain, he got. A college football program was bound to get its hands on the...

Elyria Catholic’s Levi Ellis commits to Hillsdale College for football

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