6/7 -- The local Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery Services (MHARS) Board (Website | Profile) is providing resources to help mitigate possible new risks to people in active addiction and long-term recovery during the pandemic. Full Story

6/6 -- Sixteen performing arts centers and venues from around the state of Ohio, including the Stocker Arts Center (Website | Profile) at Lorain County Community College (Website | Profile), are joining forces to survey the consumer confidence of their audiences amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Venues designed to bring together large gatherings of people to experience a live performance are being hit especially hard by the pandemic. Their doors were among the first to close and will most likely be the last to reopen as bans on large gatherings are still in place throughout the state. Full Story

6/6 -- This week's slideshow of 10 of the most expensive homes sold in Lorain County features homes in Avon Lake, Avon, Grafton, Vermilion, South Amherst, LaGrange, and Amherst. View 10 of the Most Expensive Homes Sold This Week

6/5 -- University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's (UH Rainbow) announces its fourth year of participation in the Ohio Department of Education's USDA Summer Food Service Program with eight distribution sites across Northeast Ohio. Any child is eligible to receive a complimentary meal through the program - there is no income qualification. Full Story

6/5 -- Located on 3442 Stoney Ridge Rd in Avon, Tom's Country Place (Website | Profile), a local catering and banquet event venue, has been open since June 1st, and is now allowed to host events of 300 or more people, per the state of Ohio. Full Story

6/4 -- The Lorain County Chamber of Commerce (Website | Profile) and the SBDC at Lorain County Community College (Website | Profile) are happy to announce a joint project in which they will work together to produce a Lorain County Minority Business Directory. The County Chamber will take the lead in producing a digital directory to act as a "one-stop" location where anyone looking for or looking to do business with businesses that have been historically underrepresented can easily access the information. The directory will include African-American, Hispanic, Women, LGBTQ, Veteran and Agricultural businesses located in Lorain County. The County Chamber will be working with Emerge to develop a database in which this information can be easily utilized. The County Chamber and SBDC are looking to work with the members of the current Business Growth Network of Greater Lorain County, which besides the Chamber and SBDC, also includes the Lorain County Urban League (Website | Profile), El Centro (Profile), Oberlin College (Website | Profile), LCCC Wellington and JumpStart. Full Story

6/4 -- Simplified Facilities (Website | Profile), located on 588 Ternes Ln in Elyria, has reopened to the public. They are a single source solution for facility management, maintenance service, bucket truck services, home management and various building needs. Full Story

6/3 -- Pardee Environmental (Website | Profile), an environmental consulting services company based out of Oberlin, has reopened their business. Since 1991, the company has provided quality and affordable environmental consulting services to various industries throughout Ohio and the Midwest, including residential, institutional, and commercial businesses Full Story

6/3 -- Read about recent updates from Lorain Public Library System (Website | Profile). Full Story

6/2 -- The annual greenhouse spring plant sale is a special highlight for the Lorain County JVS (Website | Profile) Landscape and Greenhouse Management students. "Spring sales will always be our biggest sale of the year," shared Victoria Sprague, junior in the landscape program. Full Story

6/1 -- The Lorain County Community College (Website | Profile), an organization created in 1966 dedicated to continuous improvement and betterment of our local communities, is reopening their doors this week for their administrative staff to return to work. The building is still closed off to the public. Full Story

5/31 -- Registration is open for Lorain County Community College's (Website | Profile) summer College for Kids and Teens online courses. Full Story