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University Hospitals of Cleveland and Nashville-based Centerre Healthcare Corporation announced a joint venture to construct a comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Avon on Oct. 16. This will be the second inpatient rehabilitation hospital that the two organizations have built together. They opened the UH Rehabilitation Hospital in Beachwood, Ohio in 2012. Scheduled for completion in early 2016, the state-of-the-art facility ... Read More »

St. Edward High School’s theater company, The Edwardian Players, are presenting “1776” for their fall performance. The venue for the performances will be the Auditorium at St. Edward High School, 13500 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood. “1776” puts a human face on the pages of history as we see the men behind the national icons: proud, frightened, uncertain, irritable, charming, often ... Read More »

Expansion Brings Inpatient Services to Lorain County Designed as a “hospital of the future,” Cleveland Clinic broke ground on Thurs., Oct. 23, on its new hospital in Avon. It is scheduled to open in 2016. The five-story, 221,500-square-foot addition, estimated at more than $143 million, will be built onto the north side of the existing Richard E. Jacobs Health Center ... Read More »

It was a great day at Nick Mayer Lincoln in Westlake! Three great organizations – Nick Mayer Lincoln, the Avon Lake Wrestling Club and Rocco Whalen’s Fahrenheit Food Truck all were on hand Tuesday, Oct. 21,  for a test drive event to raise funds for the Avon Lake Wrestling Club and to raise awareness for The Road to Hope House, ... Read More »

Westlake Police have identified the suspect in last night’s Dover Gardens Car Crash as Brandon L. Pawlak (date of birth 5-9-88)  of Cleveland. Police report he has not had a valid license since 2004. Westlake Police report they have an Aggravated Robbery warrant for him. Past criminal history items include felony fleeing from Cuyahoga County in 2011, report Police. They ... Read More »

Westlake Police have released the names of those injured in the car crash at Dover Gardens last night. Those injured and the Fire Departments that assisted are: Bay Village Fire (all transported to St. John Medical Center): -Edmund Leese  of Bay Village, -John Comer  of Avon Lake, -William Winter of Westlake, -Larry Walker  of Bay Village, -Colin Hollows of Bay ... Read More »

Westlake Police have issued the following release after a car crashed into Dover Gardens bar on Detroit Road tonight: Fleeing Suspect Hits Building At 8:53 PM this date, Avon and Avon Lake PDs were in pursuit of a pickup truck stolen from Avon Lake. The suspect entered Westlake travelling eastbound on Detroit Rd. A Westlake patrolman deployed stop sticks on ... Read More »

Football fans wanting to witness a good, old-fashioned neighborhood rivalry game should plan on heading to Bay Memorial Stadium Friday night when the host Rockets take on Rocky River at 7 p.m. Both teams are having fine seasons and enter the game with 5-3 records. A lot is on the line as the two teams also have OHSAA playoff hopes ... Read More »

Robert L. Fortney, founder of Fortney & Weygandt, Inc., one of the largest commercial construction companies in northern Ohio passed away October 22, 2014 at his home in Westlake, Ohio. He was 61. Bob Fortney had recently retired from the company he led for 36 years, naming Greg Freeh, a 31-year employee and most recently Chief Operating Officer, as President. ... Read More »

University Hospitals has been recognized as “Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. HRC is the educational arm of the country’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization. The findings were part of HRC Foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index 2014, an annual survey that encourages equal care for LGBT patients and recognizes heath ... Read More »