Three local students who designed billboards for the fourth annual Lorain County Beautiful Day Billboard Contest were honored at a Lorain County Commission meeting April 23. Taylor Lewis, an eighth-grade student at Holy Trinity School in Avon; Soren Beeman, a second-grade student at Powers Elementary School in Amherst; and Kate Gorney, a seventh-grade student at […]
The Lorain County Commission heard a presentation at its Feb. 13 meeting regarding how residents should prepare for the April 8 solar eclipse. Dave Freeman, director of Lorain County Emergency Management Agency and Homeland Security, included a new page on the department’s website to help prepare residents and out-of-town visitors who are expected to sweep […]
The city of Lorain declared Feb. 11 the 2-1-1 Awareness Day as the program reaches its 14th year assisting people with basic needs and crises. The 2-1-1 First Call for Help program was launched in 2010 by the United Way of Greater Lorain County and has responded to more than 441,000 requests for assistance from […]
Lorain County commissioners balked at proposed contracts with consulting firms with hefty price tags at their meeting Feb. 2. First, a $15,000 payment came to the attention of Dave Moore, vice president of the commission. The payment was requested from the Lorain County Prosecutor’s Office to hire McCaulley and Company LLC, a grant writing firm. […]
The Lorain County Commission unanimously approved a nearly $2 million grant Jan. 30 to implement a lead abatement program countywide. The county’s Community Development Department received the Lead Safe Ohio Grant Funds in the amount of $1,892,000 for Lorain County from the Ohio Department of Development to implement a lead safe renovation and lead abatement […]