Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH) back issues from August 2007:
Enjoy dog days of summer, literally.
Aug 01, 2007
With long drives and plenty of confidence, it's Argentina's Romero.
Aug 01, 2007
DVD picks: `300' movie overflows with DVD extras.
Aug 01, 2007
Indians find new way to lose in 10 innings.
Aug 01, 2007
Crennel calls procedure for Browns' defensive end `normal'.
Aug 01, 2007
Take time to clown around.
Aug 02, 2007
Home and garden news and notes.
Aug 02, 2007
Indians blank the Rangers.
Aug 02, 2007
Tucker says he needs to regain trust of his Browns' teammates.
Aug 02, 2007
Brady Quinn, it's time to sign the deal and get in camp.
Aug 02, 2007
Mahan can see his turning point on the course.
Aug 02, 2007
Three share Bridgestone lead.
Aug 02, 2007
Indians defeat Santana and Twins.
Aug 03, 2007
Browns tackle Ryan Tucker suspended four games.
Aug 03, 2007
Thomas won't talk at length at Hall of Fame.
Aug 03, 2007
Ryan Tucker knows there is no excuse for his suspension.
Aug 03, 2007
Sabbatini leads Bridgestone by two strokes.
Aug 03, 2007
Indians fall to Twins.
Aug 04, 2007
For Indians, Sizemore has the edge.
Aug 04, 2007
Touching moments highlight Pro Football Hall of Fame ceremony.
Aug 04, 2007
Browns still in quarterback search mode.
Aug 04, 2007
Sabbatini leads Bridgestone.
Aug 04, 2007
This is Tiger's time.
Aug 04, 2007
Aaron's silence speaks volumes.
Aug 05, 2007
After nearing losing leg, Bentley pushes on toward NFL return.
Aug 05, 2007
Woods runs away from field at Firestone.
Aug 05, 2007
Super Sunday: Woods shows his greatness at Firestone.
Aug 05, 2007
Hike and bike in Northeast Ohio on rail trail.
Aug 06, 2007
BRIEF: Former Akron minister Humbard 'fighting for his life' at Fla. hospital.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Carney Aug. 11--Pioneering televangelist Rex Humbard is "fighting for his life" in a Florida hospital, according to his son, Rex Humbard Jr. The former Akron minister, who will turn 88 Monday, broke his hip on July 23 and underwent total hip replacement, ...
Male breast cancer survivor urges everyone to be vigilant.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Jewell Cardwell Aug. 11--Lee S. Giller has acquired a raft of titles over the years, including president of B. Berger in Macedonia, a national distributor and designer of exclusive fabrics for the interior design industry. He's a civic leader, serving on the ...
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Jewell Cardwell column.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Jewell Cardwell Aug. 11--Kimberly Carbaugh is one of 24 runners tapped from around the world by the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon as a "2007 Global Hero" to run in a 10-mile race Oct. 7. She will be joined by Global Heroes from Spain, South Africa, Canada, ...
Be prepared to carry money.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Kathy Antoniotti Aug. 11--Summer camp may be nothing more than a memory as you anticipate another new school year. The canoe you paddled downstream at Scout camp is likely stashed away by now, along with hikes, campfires and singalongs. You probably earned a few merit ...
Diocese asks people to pray, take action.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Colette M. Jenkins Aug. 11--The social action office of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland's "40 Days of Prayer, Fasting and Actions for Peace" begins Aug. 25. During the 40 days, Catholics and others are asked to spend seven minutes per day on prayer, ...
Keep Akron Beautiful to ID environmental priorities.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: John Higgins Aug. 11--The organization that plants flowers, picks up litter and paints over graffiti in Akron has a new charge: prepare the ground for a potential influx of new federal money dedicated to reducing energy dependence. Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic ...
Copley athlete killed in Tennessee crash.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: David Lee Morgan Jr. Aug. 11--Tragedy has hit the Copley community after it was confirmed Thursday evening that 2007 graduate Virgil Walker, a popular young man among the student body, was killed that day in an automobile accident near Nashville, Tenn. ...
Banking on new facility.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Colette M. Jenkins Aug. 11--The Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank is moving to a new home so that it can expand its operations. "There is an unmet need in the community and we are committed to changing that," said Joseph D. Parsons, chairman of the board of ...
BRIEF: Longtime coach back for Garfield.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: David Lee Morgan Jr. Aug. 11--A familiar face will be roaming the Garfield sidelines during football games this fall. Former longtime Rams coach Bill McGee has joined head coach Bob Sax's staff as a volunteer assistant. McGee retired in April 2002 ...
Survivors find support at center.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Colette M. Jenkins Aug. 11--STOW, Ohio -- Carole Hegedus was broken when she arrived at the little house on Marhofer Avenue with "The GriefCare Place" sign on its front lawn. "It was like I was traveling at 50 miles per hour and hit a brick wall," said ...
Nation's heritage in bloom: Plants with a pedigree get noticed.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Mary Beth Breckenridge Aug. 11--Frank Gonzalez's birthday gift came with a pedigree. It's not a pet, but a plant a sweet gum tree that's an offspring of one growing at the Virginia birthplace of Robert E. Lee. Gonzalez, a Jackson Township resident, ...
Injuries to pitchers have team scrambling.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Stephanie Storm Aug. 11--It hasn't been a good year for pitchers in the Indians organization. Not by the standards of wins and losses, but by health. Consider that Cleveland lost starters Jake Westbrook and Cliff Lee early this season to abdominal injuries, ...
Lawyer's death called natural.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Phil Trexler Aug. 11--If there's a fine line between eccentricity and mental illness, James Gatskie was a master tightrope walker. His flowing, silver-tinged hair, scruffy beard, tinted eyeglasses and loud ties over pink shirts were unconventional, yet ...
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Patrick McManamon column.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Patrick McManamon Aug. 11--CLEVELAND -- Offensive lines seem to change in a hurry in Cleveland. Think back to 1999. At that point, Dwight Clark did what he could to build a line in a hurry. He drafted Jim Pyne first in the expansion draft, then ...
Man pleads not guilty to murder.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Ed Meyer Aug. 11--An Akron man is facing the death penalty on charges of aggravated murder, kidnapping, aggravated burglary, rape and other offenses in connection with the July 28 shooting death of 28-year-old Darian Polk in Barberton. Cameron Darnell ...
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Sheldon Ocker column.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Sheldon Ocker Aug. 11--CLEVELAND -- Apparently, the Indians' seven-run, 11-hit outburst against the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night was a one-time blue-light special. Demonstrating that there's more action in the laundry detergent section at Wal-Mart, the ...
Hoover may be on brink of sale.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Mackinnon Aug. 11--The soon-to-be emptied Hoover Co. campus in North Canton may get a new owner who has intimate knowledge of Northeast Ohio industrial properties. City Councilman Jim Repace, head of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ...
Judge, not jury, to decide charge of sexual battery.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Ed Meyer Aug. 11--The case of a New York law school graduate accused of sexual battery will be decided by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Judy Hunter. Sahil Sharma, the defendant, on Wednesday filed a document waiving his right to a jury trial, instead ...
Simply Smucker's reopening.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Betty Lin-Fisher Aug. 11--Simply Smucker's, the showcase retail store of Orrville-based J.M. Smucker Co., is readying itself for its grand reopening Thursday after an expansion that doubled its size. The store, about a quarter mile north of U.S. 30 on state ...
Residents survey storm damage.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Carol Biliczky Aug. 11--GREEN, Ohio -- When Pam and Chuck Morton came home Thursday afternoon, they thought they'd been robbed. The culprit: Mother Nature. Ferocious winds shot a 4-foot tree limb 40 feet through a window in their great room. The couple found ...
Akron schools, teachers reach contract.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Stephanie Warsmithand Katie Byar Aug. 11--The Akron school district reached a tentative agreement Friday with the teachers union. Contract talks for Stow-Munroe Falls and Cuyahoga Falls teachers continued Friday afternoon. Leaders of the Akron ...
Can old Bowl learn new trick?
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Carney Aug. 11--At age 67, the Akron Rubber Bowl appears to be closing in on retirement. At the end of the University of Akron's 2008 football season, the sports and entertainment facility built during the Great Depression by Works Progress Administration ...
Vintage planes give feel of history.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Carney Aug. 11--GREEN, Ohio -- John and David Baker remember the last time they saw their uncle. It was around 1941, when they were about 4 years old and Addison E. Baker was home in Akron on leave. Two years later in World War II, the ...
Backup catcher awaits another trip to majors.
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Stephanie Storm Aug. 12--Every minor-leaguer dreams of the day when he gets the call, the one that finally summons him to the major leagues. Aeros backup catcher David Wallace hopes that there is a second one coming someday since his first trip to the majors ...
The Akron East High Class of 1937 will reunite.
Aug 12, 2007 ... Aug. 12--The Akron East High Class of 1937 will reunite Sept. 28 at the Tangier in Akron. Call Clarence Berry at 330-634-0418. The Akron Buchtel High Class of 1949 will reunite Sept. 7 and 8. Classmates who haven't been contacted by reunion planners should call Bill Lilley at ...
Tallmadge graduate caters to Aeros.
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Stephanie Storm Aug. 12--This season, the Aeros' clubhouse is very much pro-fruit, a pineapple mecca on most nights, in fact. The players, however, are not broccoli or carrot types. Bring a nice veggie tray in there, and it will sit for days, practically ...
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Michael Douglas column.(Column)
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Douglas Aug. 12--In May, Eric Fingerhut opened his talk at the Cleveland City Club with a description of how the conversation has changed at the Statehouse. The chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents wanted the audience to know that lawmakers no ...
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Bob Downing column.
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Downing Aug. 12--NANTUCKET, Mass. -- It's easy to have a whale of a time on Nantucket. One of the best places to start is the island's showcase museum: the Whaling Museum in downtown Nantucket Town. The museum, housed in what was an 1847 ...
EDITORIAL: Community trust.(Editorial)
Aug 12, 2007 ... Aug. 12--As crime rates dropped steadily across the country in the 1990s, it appeared communities had found the right combination of answers to curb violence. The optimism is tempered now. The crime rate is inching up. And so are the calls to reclaim neighborhoods under the siege of crime ....
EDITORIAL: Shock treatment.(Editorial)
Aug 12, 2007 ... Aug. 12--Got chutzpah? The answer is a resounding yes if you are part of the Ohio Coalition for Affordable Power. On Tuesday, the organization called for something close to re-regulating the state's electricity market. Not a bad idea, entirely. If anything, Ohio would be better off today ...
EDITORIAL: Tenacious in Norton.(Editorial)
Aug 12, 2007 ... Aug. 12--Even trivial issues such as buying gravel for the road department, let alone big ones that would save taxpayers serious money, routinely get a full hearing before the many small councils that make up the region's dense (and expensive) web of local government. Then there ...
Entrepreneurs-to-be go to boot camp.
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Paula Schleis Aug. 12--It couldn't have been possible a few years ago, they agree. But new leadership and a contagious spirit of regionalism sweeping Northeast Ohio has pulled seven universities in its wake. Today, a year-old collaboration that ...
Two men dead after accidents in Akron, Falls.
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Ed Meyer Aug. 12--Two people died from injuries in two late Friday crashes in Cuyahoga Falls and Akron, authorities said. Killed were Joseph Martin, 47, of Morningview Avenue in Akron, and 18-year-old Jermain Cummings, whose address was not reported, the ...
Ungvary Jr. follows in father's footsteps.
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Tom Gaffney Aug. 12--Joe Ungvary Jr. enthusiastically embraces his expanded role in an event that his late father accidently started. Ungvary Jr., 42, a former golfer at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School and Kent State, will be the first-year captain of the ...
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Elaine Guregian column.(Column)
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Elaine Guregian Aug. 12--Presenting a different company each weekend of the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival has made for a happily varied and unpredictable event. Verb Ballets, a contemporary dance company from Cleveland, began Friday's concert at Goodyear Heights Metro ...
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Rich Heldenfels column.(Column)
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Rich Heldenfels Aug. 12--When The Fugitive: Season One, Volume One (CBS DVD, 15 episodes, four discs, $42.99) hits stores on Tuesday, it finally begins a comprehensive collection of the long-running series, which inspired a hit movie with Harrison Ford and an ...
Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Rich Heldenfels column.(Column)
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Rich Heldenfels Aug. 12--HOW TO LOSE $1 MILLION: An Oregon woman's lottery win has been disallowed by a judge because she bought the ticket with a stolen credit card. According to the Associated Press, the woman, Christina Goodenow, used a credit card ...