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South Amherst parade and Hunter memorial gallery

Vet­er­ans, safety forces, churches, and com­mu­nity groups joined Mon­day morn­ing to honor this nation’s fallen heroes in a parade through South Amherst to Ever­green Ceme­tery. There they ded­i­cated a memo­r­ial rock to Staff Sgt. James Hunter, who died last year in an explo­sion while on duty in Afghanistan. Higher res­o­lu­tion pho­tos may be pur­chased in […]

Steele High School 124th commencement gallery

Here are a few shots — some which appeared in our print edi­tion and oth­ers that did not — of the Steele Class of 2011 grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mony held Sat­ur­day at the CSU Wol­stein Cen­ter in down­town Cleve­land. Many pho­tos are avail­able for pur­chase in our store. Click the blue but­ton on the News-Times main page […]

Hats off to 338 Steele graduates

They thought the day would never come. One by one, each green-and-gold-clad grad­u­ate of the Class of 2011 marched to the stage and enjoyed a moment in the spot­light. The hon­orees, 338 strong, marched Sat­ur­day toward the future in the 124th com­mence­ment of Amherst Steele High School, held at the Wol­stein Cen­ter in down­town Cleve­land. For […]

Village covers Hunter memorial with red flowers

The loss of a local son weighed heav­ily on the hearts of paraders Mon­day morn­ing as they marched through South Amherst toward Ever­green Ceme­tery. The red, white, and blue pageantry that often goes with Memo­r­ial Day was muted. In its place were long faces and tears shed in the mem­ory of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. […]

Steele seniors mourn passing of classmate who would have graduated Saturday

Dozens of helium bal­loons streaked silently sky­ward Thurs­day in mem­ory of 19-year-old Jake Turner, who would have grad­u­ated this past week­end. Instead, his life was cut short dur­ing an acci­dent on March 4. Mem­bers of the Class of 2011 gath­ered out­side Steele High School, where they planted a tree for their class­mate. “He won’t be […]

Honor guard raising $9K for new uniforms

Clark Bruner and John Mli­narik are stand­ing today at atten­tion, eyes straight ahead and faces solemn as they pay their respects at Ohio West­ern Reserve National Ceme­tery in Rittman. Over­head flies the red, white, and blue flag both men fought to pro­tect. In the soil below their boots are the bod­ies of the vet­er­ans who […]

Kathleen Margaret Gray

Kath­leen Mar­garet Gray (nee Zierolf), 93, died Wednes­day, May 25, 2011, in the New Life Hos­pice Cen­ter of St. Joseph in Lorain fol­low­ing a brief ill­ness. A res­i­dent of Amherst for almost her entire adult life, Kath­leen was born on June 2, 1917 at home in Henry County, Ohio. She was vale­dic­to­rian of the Holgate […]