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The Westlake High School speech and debate team enjoyed a successful state tournament at Cincinnati Princeton. Over 1,000 students from 106 schools participated in the competition this year. Bradley Katcher, Allyson Simon and Avi Kirpekar qualified for the state tournament after an excellent season with a winning record at the district tournament. Bradley and Allyson were named octafinalists in the ... Read More »

Westlake Mayor Dennis Clough and Westlake City Schools Superintendent Geoff Palmer are joining together in a combined community event on March 16 at 6:30pm at the Westlake Schools Performing Arts Center. Mayor Clough will present an abbreviated State of the City address, while Superintendent Palmer will present a State of the Schools address with CFO/Treasurer Mark Pepera. All community members are welcome. Read More »

The University Hospitals Elyria and Westlake Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Centers are the proud recipients of national awards from Healogics, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. The UH Elyria and Westlake Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Centers both received the Center of Distinction Award. In doing so, they achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 24 consecutive ... Read More »

The Avon Early Childhood PTA Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by Reed Allen State Farm Insurance, will be held March 20th at Heritage North Elementary School. The egg hunt starts promptly at 12:00pm. “This is the first time that this event has been sponsored and Reed Allen State Farm Insurance has so graciously partnered with the AECPTA to make this event ... Read More »

Recognition Ceremony Held at AASA’s National Conference on Education  Excellence in leadership in our nation’s public schools took a major step forward when AASA, The School Superintendents Association, announced the 2016 class of superintendents to earn National Superintendent Certification. Mike Laub, superintendent of the Avon Local Schools, was among the nearly 30 superintendents from across the country honored for completing ... Read More »

Crocker Park has posted the following statement in response to the explosion that took place there this morning: “Earlier this morning an explosion and fire occurred at the construction site of the new American Greetings Creative Studios at Crocker Park. “Early reports indicate that a construction propane tank caught fire and exploded. The cause of the incident is still being ... Read More »

Westlake High School freshman Katie Cirincione’s animated short film, “Checkers the Cat,” was accepted and is part of this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF40), which runs March 30-April 10 at Tower City Cinemas. Her stop-motion animation film is about a drawn cat named Checkers who comes to life. The piece was created when Katie was in Pre-engineering teacher Kurt ... Read More »

Alert to drivers: Upcoming Nagel Road Construction is coming in Avon. On or about March 14, 2016 Sitetech Inc. will begin a construction project that will serve to widen a portion of Nagel Road south of Avon Road. The project will involve the construction of a western extension of Middleton Road along with traffic signals and turn lanes on Nagel Road at the ... Read More »

With appearances on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, NBC’s Last Comic Standing and on the Tonight Show as Jay Leno’s correspondent, Rob O’Reilly is quickly gaining a reputation as an up-and-coming comedian to watch. In fact, he was named one of LA Weekly’s Top 10 Comedy Acts to Watch and one of Funny Or Die’s 30 Under 30: Comedians to ... Read More »

A group of Westlake High School students are organizing a Demon Fest rock/acoustic concert with pop music to raise money to adorn the hallways of the high school with international flags. Leadership Challenge’s Diversity group was working on the international flag installation the past two years, but the project stalled. Junior Austin Goetz, an International Baccalaureate (IB) student from Avon ... Read More »