Burbank News

Gilbert Gnarley, inquisitive and confused. The irascible Earl Pitts. And the bombastic Reverend Deuteronomy Skaggs.

With more than $85,000 in funding commitments and the blessing of the Wayne County commissioners, the city's Parks and Recreation Department is hammering out the final details to increase parking and add concession and restroom facilities to the 22-acre soccer complex located on Burbank Road.

The proposed improvements to the Wooster soccer complex will press onward, but the county's emergency management director has some concerns.

MEDINA a ' The 11-year-old girl who was found hiding in a Dumpster on the grounds of Claggett Middle School on Tuesday evening was charged Wednesday with delinquency by inducing panic.

A man wanted by police for pointing a handgun at an officer earlier this week killed himself Wednesday while being pursued by police in Burbank.

A 58-year-old Parma man committed suicide Wednesday night after leading Medina County Sheriff's deputies on a chase from the Lodi Outlet Mall into the village of Burbank and crashing into a telephone pole.

Three men and two women were taken into custody Wednesday in connection with a suspected meth lab on Township Road 1031.

The village is weighing options to join a fire district to provide fire and rescue services.

There's an African proverb that reads: "It takes a village to raise a child." But in the North Central District, it's the efforts of three villages pulling together to ensure children will be able to continue the faith-based education that's been offered for many years.

Burbank Elementary School fourth-graders Spenzercq Arnold and Nate Weinman place beads into a board that will be used to create a portrait of President Barack Obama when combined with other fourth-grade classroom works from around the country.

When the Wayne County Care Center barn burned late Monday night, the county lost not only a landmark from just after the Civil War, it also lost a monument to a way of life that has passed from the scene.