Daily Wire

The Westlake Women’s Club is celebrating it’s 58th year as a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting the community both financially and through service projects. Some of the organizations WWC has supported include:  Far West Center, Meals on Wheels – Westlake, Providence House, Relay for Life, Westlake Service and Assistance Center, Youth Challenge, Westlake Police and Fire Departments, Westlake Safety Town, ... Read More »

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty announced Oct. 14 that complaints have been filed in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court against five youths who humiliated a classmate by dumping a bucket of urine, tobacco spit and water over his head shortly before the start of the school year – and captured the act on video. Based on evidence gathered during a ... Read More »

Westlake residents, now is your time to be heard.  Many of you have great ideas concerning your city, but simply don’t know how to express them or whom to tell.  Now is your time.  Your city leaders want to hear from you. Recently, the City of Westlake has embarked on a Master Plan Study for Parks & Recreation, and it ... Read More »

Her dreams are in reach after being forced to flee war-torn Lebanon Mireille “Miro” Tabanji — the 2014-2015 Board Student Scholar at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®) — can tell you all about perseverance. In 1980, when Tabanji was 18, she fled war-torn Lebanon with her family and took refuge in Jordan. She left her homeland without graduating from high school, ... Read More »

What is the price of trouble? Here’s an example: An employee of a Center Ridge Road store saw a suspect steal a $600 cart from the rear of the building on Oct. 3 at 12:42 p.m. The suspect left in a red pickup. The quick-thinking officer who took the call notified a North Olmsted recycling business and – voila!  – ... Read More »

When Kim D’Acunzo’s second grade class at Dover Elementary School learned about a classmate’s struggle with diabetes, they wanted to help Ethan Kanderski was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (also known as juvenile diabetes or T1D) in February. When he shared with his classmates that he was participating in the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) Walk to Cure Diabetes, his ... Read More »

Westlake High School sophomore Alex Lathem scored a perfect 36 on the ACT test given over the summer. Fewer than 1/10th of 1 percent of the average 1.6 million students who take the ACT annually earn a top score of 36. This is the ninth time in six years a WHS student has earned a perfect score on the test. ... Read More »

Talk about your desperate acts! Fairview Park police were called to a Lorain Road apartment on September 30 because of an intoxicated person causing a problem. Upon arrival, officers were told that a male had taken approximately $30 which the caller was saving up for his son’s birthday present. Officers approached the male who was in a drunken stupor. The ... Read More »

Seven Westlake High School students were named 2014 National Merit Semifinalists in the National Merit Program. Semifinalists Aswin Bikkani, Nicholas Craven, Wendy DeFeo, Kartik Dhinakaran, Alan Garber, Thomas Reusser and Ameesh Shah will move on to compete for about 8,300 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $34 million. They are among 1.5 million students from 22,000 high schools across the ... Read More »

The Annual Heritage Race through beautiful Bay Village to benefit The Bay Village Foundation will take place on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. The fifth annual 5K run/ 1 mile walk begins at Cahoon Memorial Park at 9:00 a.m. Preregistration is available on line at www.hermescleveland.com at $20.00; or, in person on the day of the race at $25.00. Packets will ... Read More »