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‘All of a sudden, the house was exploding’ Living near a curve means her house is often hit of the sandstone foundation, pushing debris into the basement. The entire ELYRIA — Penny Lynch was gethouse shook. Lynch and her pets ting ready for bed around weren’t hurt, she said. 2 a.m. Saturday in her East Avenue “Yes, this is my house last night. home when the sound of screeching Yes, it managed to do what no other tires caught her attention. car in the history of this house has “I thought ‘Great, we’re gonna have done, it busted thru my foundation. an accident on the curve,’” she told a My thick sandstone foundation. All reporter on Saturday. “All of a sudden the way thru. I wonder how fast she the house was exploding,” she said. was going, she had to go across 50 COURTESY OF PENNY LYNCH It was a dark red four-door car slam- (feet plus) of grass,” Lynch wrote in a ming through her fence and into the public Facebook post detailing the in- This is the scene Penny Lynch, who lives just south of a curve at 1260 East Ave. in side of her house at 1260 East Ave. cident, the damages and her feelings. Elyria, found after hearing screeching tires and then a car plowing into the foundation of her house. The car’s two occupants fled on foot before police arrived. The force of the crash shattered part See EXPLOSION, A2 Dave O’Brien The Community Guide
Getting ready for snow & cold Carissa Woytach The Community Guide
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Changing of the (auxiliary) guard Steve Hernandez, right, shares an emotional moment with Lorain Auxilary Police Chief Jim Malick who is retiring after 48 years. Hernandez was sworn in as his successor. Story on A5.
OBERLIN — While many hope it will be a few months before snow starts to fly in Northeast Ohio, crews at the Ohio Department of Transportation’s Oberlin garage spent Thursday morning checking their equipment to handle those eventual winter storms. Nearly 20 trucks rolled through the West Lorain Street garage for an annual 150-point inspection, part of District 3’s 147 total trucks inspected ahead of the winter season. District 3 covers Lorain, Medina, Huron, Ashland, Crawford, Erie, Richland and Wayne counties. The 233 drivers maintain 4,778 miles of interstates, U.S. and state routes — including 703 miles in Lorain County, ODOT public information officer Crystal Neelon said. Six mechanics circled
Link to Rt. 58 OK’d in Amherst cording to the board’s agenda. Along with building 3,400 linear The Lorain County Board of feet of new highway, the project Commissioners on Friday awarded will involve building new storm and a more than $4.8 million contract sanitary sewers, water lines, and imto Fechko Excavating of Medina to provements to Route 58 and Oberlin build more than half a mile of new Road. county highway to link Sandstone The work should be completed on Parkway with state Route 58 in Am- or before July 1. It will be paid for herst Township. with the revenue from tax increment The total contract is $4,841,966 for financing or TIF agreements made in the Sandstone Parkway phase two 2023 between the county, Amherst, and Route 58 roadway improvement Amherst Township and the Amherst project. School District. Fechko’s was the most-responsive Commissioner Jeff Riddell, a of eight bids received Oct. 10, acRepublican, said what is being built Dave O’Brien The Community Guide
is the connector road “that will bring Sandstone out to Route 58.”
600 houses to soon follow “This is a payment we’ll make and that will be repaid from future taxes from the development as it occurs. “It’s not funded by the county, it’s just financed by the county,” he said. Plans are for more than 600 new residences to go in on more than 260 acres as part of the Sandstone development bordered by the Ohio Turnpike, Route 58, state Route 113 and Oberlin Road. Sewers already have been installed to promote future development.
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ODOT mechanics inspect their plow trucks. each plow truck, inspecting each before they were ready to hit the road. At a separate station, each truck went through a safety check as well. “So when it does start to snow, we don’t have to worry about ‘Oh, something’s not working right’ or anything like that,” Neelon said.
Those inspections included ensuring the tanks and lines were ready to go for ODOT’s salt brine, a mix of water and sodium chloride used to pre-treat before storms. The liquid de-icer is used, along with standard road salt mined from under Lake Erie, to help keep roads clear.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Get ready for ghosts and goblins looking for candy in these cities tonight. They all have trick-or-treating from 6-7:30 p.m.
Amherst
Lorain
Avon
North Ridgeville
Avon Lake
Oberlin
Columbia Station*
Rochester
Eaton Township
Sheffield
Elyria
Sheffield Lake
Grafton
Vermilion
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Wellington * GOES TO 8 P.M.
INSIDE THIS WEEK Amherst
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Oberlin
It’s Vehicle Day for students. A4
SPORTS A6 • CROSSWORD A7 • SUDOKU A7 • KID SCOOP A8