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The Avon Lake Gazette
August 2026
Independent public-record project — Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the City of Avon Lake.
Lede
This edition was reconstructed from the archive available on September 10, 2026.
August adds 68 beach sample entries to the year-to-date series, with observations through August 31. The local permit and sale-price series still end in July. Those charts provide earlier context; they do not establish August building activity or August home prices.
3017121records archived
Corpus total from scoped warehouse records at issue build.
10public actions
Linked public actions recorded for August 2026.
79public sources
Distinct Avon Lake-scoped sources with at least one archived record.
559aggregate findings
Publishable findings aggregated for August 2026.
What changed
2 beach advisories started
3 emergency legislation items detected
520 irs ag charity gap findings detected
0 publishable legislated parcel findings this period (1 below the publication threshold)
33 new foreclosure filings detected
1 water advisory started findings detected
Why this matters
Each source runs on a different clock. The employment chart ends at the first quarter of 2026, and household estimates end at 2024. Their inclusion provides background rather than a measurement of this issue month.
Archive additions measure when this project collected records, including historical backfills. Several automated finding categories also use collection dates. Their counts should not be read as actions taken during this month or as a count of unique civic events. The archive total reflects the September build, not a historical month-end snapshot.
The public-document section includes nine city legislation index entries and one published boards/hearings minutes reference dated in August. These are links to source documents, not a claim that the list is a complete account of every public action or meeting. The Hospital Price Check reflects hospital-posted prices that passed publication checks as of September 10, 2026; it is a current comparison added to this archival issue, not an August snapshot.
Pinned public-data feature
Local price check
This issue compares the selected outpatient lumbar-spine MRI billing code across four Lorain County-area hospitals. It shows how the hospitals' posted figures differ and gives residents a receipt-backed starting point for asking about a personalized estimate.
Hospital-posted machine-readable price; not a personalized estimate or final bill.
How to read this check
These are hospital-posted prices, not a personalized estimate or final bill.
Matching codes and settings can still differ by modifier, bundle, and facility or professional component.
Negotiated ranges are not volume-weighted and omit percentage and formula contracts.
Missing dollar amounts do not mean zero cost or unavailable care.
Prices do not measure quality.
A source may have changed after the disclosed retrieval date.
The comparison is a research starting point. A patient's coverage, care setting, and clinical circumstances can change the amount they are asked to pay.
Eligibility checked as of 2026-09-10. Comparison set and accepted source checks are pinned in the issue bundle.
Figures
Residential permits
Residential permits, through August 2026.
Source: hud_socds_census_bps_permits, fetched 2026-09-01, 444 rows. Caveat: HUD building-permit months publish with a lag; place and county values may include imputed fields.
Median valid sale price
Median valid sale price, through August 2026.
Source: lorain_county_auditor_property, fetched 2026-07-27, 582138 rows. Caveat: The auditor extract is a weekly full snapshot; valid-sale trends exclude non-arm's-length and nominal transfers.
Lake Erie E. coli calendar
Lake Erie E. coli calendar, through August 2026.
Source: odh_beachguard, fetched 2026-09-10, 5681 rows. Caveat: Beachguard is a full snapshot; Avon Lake beaches can have long unsampled periods and sample dates do not imply daily testing.
Lorain County employment
Lorain County employment, through August 2026.
Source: bls_qcew_lorain, fetched 2026-09-01, 86247 rows. Caveat: The QCEW slice begins in 2014 and the two newest quarters remain preliminary until BLS revisions arrive.
Avon Lake households
Avon Lake households, through August 2026.
Source: census_acs_avonlake, fetched 2026-07-24, 112 rows. Caveat: ACS values are annual survey estimates, not administrative counts, and the newest vintage is published with a lag.
Source: avon_lake_boards_hearings, fetched 2026-09-10, 488 rows. Caveat: Five board archives plus notices are covered; scanned PDFs without a text layer are marked as needing OCR.
Source: avon_lake_council_legislation, fetched 2026-09-03, 1380 rows. Caveat: Recently passed legislation is taken from the city index and linked PDFs; a thin early-January index may be legitimate.
Source: avon_lake_council_legislation, fetched 2026-09-03, 1380 rows. Caveat: Recently passed legislation is taken from the city index and linked PDFs; a thin early-January index may be legitimate.
Source: avon_lake_council_legislation, fetched 2026-09-03, 1380 rows. Caveat: Recently passed legislation is taken from the city index and linked PDFs; a thin early-January index may be legitimate.
Source: avon_lake_council_legislation, fetched 2026-09-03, 1380 rows. Caveat: Recently passed legislation is taken from the city index and linked PDFs; a thin early-January index may be legitimate.
Source: avon_lake_council_legislation, fetched 2026-09-03, 1380 rows. Caveat: Recently passed legislation is taken from the city index and linked PDFs; a thin early-January index may be legitimate.
Source: avon_lake_council_legislation, fetched 2026-09-03, 1380 rows. Caveat: Recently passed legislation is taken from the city index and linked PDFs; a thin early-January index may be legitimate.
Source: avon_lake_council_legislation, fetched 2026-09-03, 1380 rows. Caveat: Recently passed legislation is taken from the city index and linked PDFs; a thin early-January index may be legitimate.
Source: avon_lake_council_legislation, fetched 2026-09-03, 1380 rows. Caveat: Recently passed legislation is taken from the city index and linked PDFs; a thin early-January index may be legitimate.
Source: avon_lake_council_legislation, fetched 2026-09-03, 1380 rows. Caveat: Recently passed legislation is taken from the city index and linked PDFs; a thin early-January index may be legitimate.