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 | Reading is passion for Orange schoolteacher
12/23/2008
To say literacy specialist Maren Koeph is passionate about reading would be an understatement. She wanted to be a teacher since she was in the second grade.
"At Moreland Hills Elementary School, something remarkable is ta
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| Reading is passion for Orange schoolteacher
12/23/2008
To say literacy specialist Maren Koeph is passionate about reading would be an understatement. She wanted to be a teacher since she was in the second grade.
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 | Spiritual outreach ministry promotes beauty
12/17/2008
Artist and Bainbridge resident Debra Classen has been collecting spiritual quotations all her life. The Bainbridge resident has been known to walk to the bookcase in her living room where her hand reaches, almost magically, for the book she is looking for
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 | Career paths bring Kenston grads back
12/10/2008
One experience that influenced him to choose his career occurred in a people's courtroom in Moscow during college. Another was watching the World Trade Center fall on Sept. 11, 2001, Justin Herdman told juniors and seniors at Kenston High School last week
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 | Scout's paint project tougher than it looked
12/04/2008
Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Bainbridge has received a face lift as a result of an Eagle Scout project led by Stephen Jira and helpers from Troop 504 in Solon.
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 | Hope, joy live in Sparrow Village documentary
11/26/2008
David Ponce found the lost sparrows in South Africa and showed the world that those sparrows, the children who had contracted the HIV virus and AIDS and who lived there, had names and faces, exuded joy and witnessed tragedy. And, that they were not alone.
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 | History lessons found right at home
11/19/2008
Third-grader Paul Cantlay showed off a solid gold pocket watch that his great grandfather received on his 21st birthday in 1910.
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| | Foundation boosts ideas and scholars
11/12/2008
While people are beginning to think of their holiday wish lists, many teachers in the Kenston School District are hoping for some gifts for their classes in the form of new equipment and supplies.
Last month, teachers submitted applications to the Kensto
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 | Howard Hanna adds Realty One to family
11/05/2008
Despite a tumultuous housing market on the national level, the future is looking bright for the family-owned, regionally based Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, which saw a 10 percent increase in sales in September over the same 30-day period last year.
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 | Culture shock eases for Chinese teacher
10/29/2008
Before she traveled to the United States last July, Xu Yahui had heard that American classes were small and informal and that teachers had to deal with students talking and eating during their lessons.
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 | Solon students build links to major laboratories
10/22/2008
After two summers of volunteer internships in the Case Western Reserve University microfabrication laboratory, Solon High School senior Sloan Zimmerman decided to help other students find similar opportunities for hands-on scientific research.
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 | Jewish youth group expands its reach
10/15/2008
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| | Retired jersey honors student who died from cancer
10/09/2008
It takes "a unique set of circumstances" to retire a football jersey at Hawken School in Chester, according to head football coach and physical education department chairman Clifford Walton.
The first time it was the No. 32 jersey worn by 1987 Hawken gra
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 | Students earn tip of the hat for good cause
10/01/2008
Hats are generally off at school. However, students at Gurney Elementary School in South Russell, as well as the middle and intermediate schools in Chagrin Falls, were allowed to wear their hats one day last week, all for a good cause.
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 | Temple opens doors for Rosh Hashana
09/24/2008
Congregants at Temple Emanu El have much to celebrate during the High Holy Days from Sept. 29 through Oct. 9 at their new building in Orange Village.
Hundreds of congregants are expected to attend a variety of services for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new ye
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 | Two young people know all about cancer battles
09/18/2008
Two young people in Solon who have faced a life-threatening foe are winning the fight.
Harrison Biros, 2�, and Rachael Passov, 18, have both had cancer.
Harrison was diagnosed with intestinal lymphangiectasia and a cancerous mass on his kidney ca
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 | Hollywood screenwriter sees light in Bainbridge
09/11/2008
For most of his life, author and screenwriter, Joe Eszterhas said he was what he calls "a control freak."
"Street smart and cynical," he said, his sense of control took root in his childhood. He was born in Hungary and lived in refuge camps during World
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 | Gracious homes ready for special tour
09/03/2008
The magic Gates Mills resident Susan Fogg created in her 1960s French colonial begins even before one enters the front door.
Outside the light gray, stucco home, located at the northernmost edge of the village, is a courtyard where Ms. Fogg's tranquil, s
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 | Chagrin Falls Park reunion is one for memories
08/27/2008
It has been 20 years or more since Douglas Sanders, of Phoenix, Ariz., had seen some of the people he knew growing up in Chagrin Falls Park in Bainbridge.
Recently, he and many others gathered in a reunion for the neighborhood off South Franklin
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 | Another Chagrin product pursues his dream
08/20/2008
Chagrin Falls High School 1988 graduate Matthew Stanton had a dream, and he's about to share it with the world through his film, "North Starr."
After working on the film for the last 10 years and recently completing it as writer, director, producer and s
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 | Creative writing gets high marks in summer
08/13/2008
"In English, my name means video games. In French, my name means a shiny sports car. In India, my name comes from the first king to ever rule. But to my little cousin, I'm basically a punching bag. I wish he would get over that phase."
So wrote Bharath K
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 | Soccer ministry host pays tribute to husband
08/07/2008
A recent opportunity to serve as a host for members of a soccer ministry has become a blessing on numerous fronts for Auburn resident Janice Gretchko.
Mrs. Gretchko, whose husband, Michael, lost his battle with non-small-cell lung cancer in March, said t
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 | School history gets room
07/30/2008
For nearly 20 years, Thomas G. Mattern collected artifacts, photographs, newspaper articles, yearbooks, diplomas, antique textbooks, stories, board of education records, class rings, scrapbooks and other memorabilia spanning the 175-year history of the Ch
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 | Farmers Market
07/23/2008
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