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Yahoo
07-08-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
One year later: Reflecting after multiple tornadoes hit Northeast Ohio
BROOK PARK, Ohio (WJW) – August 6, 2024, was a day many people in Northeast Ohio won't forget. Multiple tornadoes touched down in the region, including a confirmed EF-1 that touched down in Brook Park and tore across seven cities. It covered 17 miles and sustained wind speeds above 100 MPH all the way to Bedford. 'I remember that we had to declare an emergency within, you know, less than five minutes,' Mayor Ed Orcutt said. Orcutt told FOX 8 that severe damage to several roofs at Brook Park's Recreation Center is still being repaired a year later. 'Grateful': Local mother saved during cardiac arrest, had baby the next day The damage also hit numerous homes in the city. Lyndsey Miller believes her home may have been hit the worst on Carol Drive. Miller, whose entire family was home, watched as her garage got torn to shreds, a large tree came down in front of the home and siding, gutters and parts of her roof all flew away. It's not an anniversary they will be celebrating. It had an impact on her two young kids, she said. 'Every time there's any kind of weather, they immediately think there's a tornado,' Miller said. However, the fact that they're here to remember is the most important part to her. 'To be able to sit inside, not having power for a week or so, but you know, knowing that everyone was OK inside because we were home was a pretty impactful thing,' she said. Former NBA player's pregnant wife says she was attacked by shark Miller explained that she's looking forward to a community picnic for her ward in Brook Park. A similar picnic was held following the tornado. She said she's looking forward to being with the community and people who were impacted. Orcutt said the tornado brought a community that was already tight even closer together. 'The community became closer. We unified even more,' he said. 'Brook Park was a very unified community prior to the tornado, but then once the tornado hit, it definitely brought us together even more.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
01-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Remembering Maureen Orcutt, who won 65 golf titles, battled legends and covered golf
On a humid morning in Durham, North Carolina, the year she turned 82, Maureen Orcutt stepped to the tee and won yet another club championship. Her career had lasted longer than most players' lives. She would give it up just a few years later, not because her swing failed her, but because she no longer enjoyed the strain of walking the course. By then, Orcutt had won more than 65 titles across seven decades. She had written for the New York Times and stared down such golf legends like Walter Hagen and Babe Zaharias. Orcutt had also competed internationally, earned the respect of golf's ruling bodies and helped shape the public record of women's athletics from inside the newsroom and on the links. But none of it started in Durham. And none of it started on the professional tour, because it didn't exist yet. Instead, it started in Haworth, at White Beeches Country Club. There, Orcutt's mother — a capable golfer herself — tried to keep Orcutt and her twin brothers, Sinclair and Bill, safe from the polio epidemic of the early 20th century by getting them outdoors. For Orcutt's seventh birthday, her parents gave her a shortened hickory-shafted 7-iron, according to her obituary in The New York Times. By 12, she'd played her first full round. By 13, she'd made a bet with her mother: win the club championship match, and the equipment — along with the club membership — would be hers. Orcutt won, and her mother never played again. Orcutt went on to captain the girls' basketball team at Englewood High School, and briefly enrolled at New York University. But a knee injury sent her to Florida to recover. She never returned to college. Instead, she came back to golf — and to winning. Her list of championships is staggering. She won 10 Women's Metropolitan Amateur titles, spread over a 42-year stretch. She won six New Jersey Amateurs, seven Women's Eastern Amateurs, three North and South Amateurs, two U.S. Senior Women's titles and two Canadian Amateurs. At 17, she placed second in the White Beeches men's club championship. She twice reached the finals of the U.S. Women's Amateur, in 1927 and 1936, and was medalist three times. She made four Curtis Cup teams, winning five of eight matches. When the USGA created the Senior Women's Amateur in 1962, Orcutt won the inaugural event. She won again four years later. While at Englewood High, won Connecticut tournament in 1925 Her first big win came in June 1925, when she won the Women's Eastern Golf Association Amateur at Connecticut's Greenwich Country Club by five strokes. Still a senior at Englewood High School, she agreed with school officials that if she wasn't in contention after the first round, she would withdraw from the tournament to return and finish her final exams. She ended up requiring some special dispensation. "Putting school trials far behind her with powerful drives from the tee and brilliant play with the irons, Miss Orcutt led a big field on opening day and then duplicated her performance on the second round," The Record reported in June 1925. For decades, she played off the back tees in exhibition matches against men, outdriving most of them with 240-yard carries using wood-shaft clubs. In Augusta, she once overheard Walter Hagen groan about being paired with 'a lady golfer,' The New York Times reported. She said nothing, then carried him through nine holes and helped win the match. She beat Zaharias in another exhibition. "The Babe" walked off without paying their $10 wager. An era when there was no money in women's golf Orcutt's prime came in an era when there was no money in women's golf. She remained an amateur her entire life and funded her playing career through journalism. Beginning in the 1930s, she reported on golf for the New York Journal and several other outlets before joining The New York Times in 1937. She was only the second woman to work in the Times sports department, according to her 2007 obituary in the newspaper. For decades, she covered the sport while continuing to compete. When she made the finals of the 1968 Metropolitan Amateur, Orcutt called her editor and said, 'I'm not covering the final. Send somebody,' according to United States Golf Association records. Her replacement wrote up her victory story. Readers trusted her because she knew the game firsthand. Editors valued her because her writing matched her record. The New York Evening Journal described her as someone 'able to write as well as she plays championship golf.' 'Player of the Century' Recognition came slowly. She was inducted into the New York Sports Hall of Fame in 1991. The New Jersey State Golf Association added her to its inaugural Hall of Fame class in 2018. The Women's Metropolitan Golf Association named her 'Player of the Century,' a title based not on sentiment but on statistics, longevity and dominance. Even still, her full legacy remains underappreciated. She played against and alongside Bob Jones, Glenna Collett Vare, Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen and Marion Hollins. She competed against the best amateurs of her generation and later mentored younger players at events like the Curtis Cup, where in 1990 she sat on the grass near the 18th green at Somerset Hills and traded stories with Team USA's Vicki Goetze and Brandie Burton. She did all of this from a base in Bergen County, where her family had settled after moving from Manhattan. Her father, a newspaper editor and descendant of a Mayflower passenger, and her mother, an Irish-born golfer, helped set the path. Still, it was Maureen's ability, ambition and resolve that kept her winning into her eighties. She died in 2007 at 99, long retired in Durham. But her story also belongs to Haworth, to White Beeches, to Englewood High and to a generation of locals who learned the sport by reading her work or watching her play.
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Anderson City Council asked to adopt complete street policy
ANDERSON — The Anderson City Council is being asked to approve an ordinance to create a Complete Streets group in the city. At the council's April meeting Ben Orcutt, the owner of Buckskin Bikes, asked that an ordinance be approved to promote safety on streets. The ordinance is on the agenda for the Thursday council meeting and includes the appointment of citizens to a committee. Orcutt said Friday that council members are supportive of the proposed ordinance. 'We need to improve infrastructure in the city,' he said. 'The streets are designed for automobile use, but there are people who ride bikes and walk.' He said the Complete Street policy has been adopted by Madison County and other communities. 'The plan is in the future to make streets safer for all users,' Orcutt said. Orcutt cited a study done by the Madison County Council of Governments, which found that two pedestrians or bicyclists are injured every month in Anderson. He said there is an established process to implement the Complete Streets policy. 'We are looking to take a step toward safer streets,' he said. 'There is a wide use of our streets, and we should make accommodations for the people are living here.' Orcutt said with Anderson wanting to attract young families, there should be an effort to make the streets safer for all users. 'We have too many pedestrians being hit by cars and a lot of traffic accidents,' he said. 'We should be doing our best to make the streets safe.' Orcutt said he would like to see the bicycle lanes already established in Anderson expanded in the future. 'Every street needs a safer option,' he said. 'There should be areas for pedestrians and bicyclists not in the traffic lanes.'
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Brook Park wants to be a considered for NASA headquarters if it moves from DC
BROOK PARK, Ohio (WJW) — NASA hasn't announced any plans to move its headquarters from Washington, D.C., but with its lease expiring in 2028, the door is open for possibilities—and Brook Park is hoping to position itself as a serious contender. 'It will create more jobs. It will create a pipeline of high education as well,' said Mayor Ed Orcutt, who believes the city is primed for something big. Driver identified but not in custody in hit-skip that injured mother, son in Parma NASA Glenn has been a part of the region since 1941, and local leaders want to build on that legacy. Cleveland City Council has already passed a resolution backing the idea, signaling growing momentum behind the push. 'Working together will get the job done,' said Orcutt. 'Working with county executives, our federal executives.' If this effort gains traction, officials say NASA Glenn could become the new center of operations for one of the world's most iconic agencies. The region's infrastructure, they argue, is already in place—they just need Washington to take notice. Paul Marnecheck, Brook Park's Director of Economic Development, said the plan isn't just wishful thinking. 'Is it possible to have HQ here? As you can see, this is NASA Glenn. There is space available,' he said. Marnecheck points to lower operating costs and a strong NASA-rooted workforce already living in Northeast Ohio. He believes it's a natural fit. 'This is a great place to start a business. Having these world-class experts in Brook Park already, hopefully shows that this is the right place to make this investment,' he said. Man pulls gun in Solon road rage incident: police While federal headquarters rarely move, Brook Park officials say they're thinking big. 'We have something very special here that we may have the headquarters for NASA,' Orcutt said. NASA has made no indication it plans to leave D.C.—but if it ever does, Brook Park wants to be ready. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Onion
12-03-2025
- Automotive
- The Onion
Prospective Car Buyer Takes SUV Out For Test Hit And Run
PHILADELPHIA—Saying he was in the market for a more powerful and rugged vehicle, prospective car buyer Gabe Orcutt reportedly took an SUV out Wednesday for a test hit and run. 'I took it for a spin through some pedestrians, and I like how smoothly this thing flees the scene of an accident,' Orcutt said of the GMC Acadia, adding that he was impressed by how well the mid-size sport utility vehicle handled curbs and bollards. 'I popped right up on the sidewalk, over a guy, and into the park, no problem. The all-wheel drive was perfect for getting through the uneven mulch on the playground, and the backup camera made reversing out from under the slide so easy. Plus it gets great gas mileage. I topped out at 110 mph evading the police, and it barely used any gas.' Orcutt later confirmed that while he liked the Acadia, he ultimately needed something cheaper that wouldn't depreciate the instant he drove it through a storefront window.
