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Volume 10, Issue 16
Western Reserve Land Conservancy opens boardwalk CARISSA WOYTACH THE COMMUNITY GUIDE
OBERLIN — Nature lovers in Oberlin now have a new spot to visit. The city and Western Reserve Land Conservancy opened a new boardwalk and overlook at the Oberlin Preserve on April 11, built along an existing hiking trail and vernal pools and wetlands within the patch of longstanding wilderness. Andy McDowell, vice president of Western Field Operations, said the woods were first identified as a conservation priority in the late 1800s. More than 100 years later, The Western Reserve Land Conservancy acquired the 63-acre property in 2015. In 2021 the Land Conservancy created its Signature Parks and Preserves program, opening and managing six properties throughout Northeast Ohio for public access — including the Oberlin site. “It gives you more of an immersive experience to be out there and just absorb nature around you and the health benefits associated with it,” McDowell said of the boardwalk. The property includes a prairie, with nearly 600 native wildflowers and 200 native trees, as well as the Oberlin Great South Woods. City Council President Bryan Burgess
remembered running the woods as a child — when it was a truly overgrown wilderness before Reserve Avenue was put in. In the years since then, the city, Land Conservancy and other partners have worked to clear the paths and make them usable again. “Since then it’s become one of the bestkept secrets in Oberlin,” he said and was excited to add the boardwalk to the list of amenities there. Volunteers helped pre-drill the plastic and pressure-treated lumber for the walkway, toting them from Associate Field Director Kate Pilacky’s home a few miles away to the site. She said the project was actually completed in October, but for the first time in 20 years the area was dry — and it didn’t make much sense to have a grand opening without the wetlands and vernal pools living up to their name. The Oberlin Preserve was once owned by John and Delilah Copeland, free people of color who moved to Oberlin in the 1840s. Their son, John Anthony Copeland Jr., was involved in two significant anti-slavery events prior to the Civil War: the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858 and the raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859, for which he was later executed. The Western Reserve Land Conservancy maintains an Underground Railroad PRESERVE PAGE A4
BRUCE BISHOP | The Community Guide
Ray Stewart, of Amherst, a member of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy looks for small marine life to show to people at the ribbon cutting for the new wetlands overlook and boardwalk trail at the Oberlin Preserve in Oberlin while people chack out the new overlook.
Carnival tradition benefits Wellington Former EMA director students throughout the summer resigns from county DAVE O’BRIEN THE COMMUNITY GUIDE
JEFF BARNES | The Community Guide
Wellington High School saw a great turnout for the 13th annual Duke Pride Carnival on April 13. The carnival’s proceeds provide meals throughout the summer to students who receive free or reduced lunches during the school year. Nadia Greer, 17, and Naudika Boden, 16, posed with Stomper, the Lake Erie Crushers mascot, as Bryant Santee, 17, took their photo during the Duke Pride Carnival.
Less than a week after being replaced as head of the Lorain County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Jessica Fetter resigned. Director since June 2021, Fetter sent a two-line email to county HR Director J.R. White that was copied to County Administrator Jeff Armbruster and Deputy County Administrator Karen Perkins: “Please accept this email as my official resignation from the Emergency Management Agency and the County of Lorain. This will be effective as of 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12,” she wrote in the email, obtained by The ChronicleTelegram. “The county and I are going in two different directions,” Fetter said April 13 when reached for comment. Fetter was hired by the Lorain County Board of Commissioners to replace her former boss, Tom Kelley, upon his retirement in 2021. She had worked at EMA as an emergency operations manager for 2½ years prior to that. Commissioners voted unanimously on April 7 to replace Fetter with William “Dave” Freeman, currently the director of emergency
management in Wayne County. He is scheduled to start Monday. After JESSICA deliverFETTER ing the news to her on April 6, Armbruster and Perkins offered Fetter the chance to go back to her old position as emergency operations manager, she told the Chronicle on April 11. Commissioners also announced they were replacing Lorain County 911 Director Jeff Young, the former Sheffield Fire chief, with former Avon Lake mayor Rob Berner. Commissioners said they were impressed with Berner’s credentials, including his master’s degree in public administration, and said plans are to merge EMA with 911. He also is scheduled to start Monday. Neither Fetter nor Young was fired after the new directors were hired. Commissioners said they hoped to find roles for both former directors. Young’s replacement was met with criticism by county fire chiefs, who backed their former peer. They questioned Berner’s credentials and ability to fill the role.
INSIDE THIS WEEK Oberlin
Council talks affordable housing ● A4
Sports
Firelands cinch close game ● A6
Wellington
Museum unveils painting ● A3
OBITUARIES A2 • CLASSIFIEDS A4 • CROSSWORD A7 • SUDOKU A7 • KID SCOOP A8