Senior citizens got into it over a handicapped parking space on Clague Road this week, report Westlake Police. The fisticuffs occurred when a 76 year old Berea man and an unidentified suspect got into a scuffle over a handicap parking space in a Clague Rd. lot on Feb. 28. The victim confronted the other man over his using the parking ... Read More »
CUYAHOGA COUNTY EXPERIENCES AT LEAST 60 FATAL HEROIN/FENTANYL OVERDOSES IN FEBRUARY Fentanyl Death Rate among African Americans Nearly Double 2016 Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Gilson today announced Cuyahoga County experienced at least 60 confirmed fatal overdoses in February due to heroin, fentanyl, or a combination of the two. This marks the single highest monthly fatality rate in Cuyahoga ... Read More »
Bay High School senior Will Huntington has been named a National Merit Finalist by the National Merit Scholarship Program. He earned the prestigious academic distinction with his score on the 2015 Preliminary SAT (PSAT), taken during his junior year in high school. Will plans to major in economics, and he has narrowed down his choice of schools to Vanderbilt, Northwestern, ... Read More »
Westlake Police report that a Lorain woman’s purse was taken from her office at her workplace, Lutheran Home, 2116 Dover Center Rd. workplace on Feb. 24. Three credit cards were misused for a total of $888 in purchases at various Cleveland locations. CCTV recorded a heavyset black female with a big purse entering her office. Stills from that offense are ... Read More »
Love is in the air -literally – at Avon Lake’s Redwood School where the Bald Eagles that nest there are expecting. Two eggs are in the nest, the first appearing on Feb. 27. The eagles, ‘Stars’ and ‘Stripes,’ made headlines last year where they produced three egg at around this same time of the year. The Eagles were named in ... Read More »
An 87 year-old Avon man made repeated trips to buy iTunes gift cards from a Detroit Rd. store. He had been told by a caller that he was going to be ‘helped’ to buy a new computer. Staff at the store became concerned on Feb. 20 and called Westlake police. His family was subsequently notified and found that he had ... Read More »
Bay Village Police report that they received two separate calls this week from residents who were attempting to sell items over the internet. Each had received checks which were significantly in excess of the agreed upon sale price. Fortunately, each of these people checked with their banks and were advised this is a type of scam so they did NOT ... Read More »
Quick change artists struck at Marc’s in Westlake, bamboozling a clerk out of $1100 after requesting confusing amounts of change in a $7.33 purchase. The action took place on Feb. 25 at 8:45 p.m.. The couple depicted in CCTV stills are seen to make a $7.33 purchase with a $100 bill at the Marc’s on Detroit Rd. They then confuse the ... Read More »
Everybody loves a train! It is that love of railroading plus a sense of local history that has motivated Avon Lake shopping center owner Tom Patton to display a historic Lake Shore Electric Car prominently at the front of his Lake Road Artstown Shopping Center. The long-term plan is to eventually develop a railway museum at the site of the ... Read More »
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