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Hundreds of school-age athletes, from elementary school through high school,  flocked to the Center for Orthopedics last week for the sixth year of Free Sports Physicals. Area physicians donated time for the medical portion.The orthopedic exams were performed by board certified physicians of The Center for Orthopedics. These highly-trained and skilled specialists are recognized locally, regionally and nationally, and serve ... Read More »

A Westlake City Schools bus driver found a cartridge for a .380auto firearm on the floor of bus 11 while sweeping the vehicle after the AM run this date. That bus carries students from Lee Burneson Middle School and Parkside Intermediate School. All students who rode that bus either at dismissal on 6-10-14 or this AM were interviewed by Westlake ... Read More »

University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center has received the Mission: Lifeline® Silver Plus Receiving Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks. Each year in the United States, approximately 250,000 people have a STEMI, or ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (heart attack) caused by a ... Read More »

The Bay Men’s Club has awarded four $1,500 scholarships to four very deserving Bay High students: Victoria Hamilton, Pawel Kotowski, Shaley Stearns and Abriana Holzworth. Scholarships are awarded based on need, character, scholastic achievement and leadership qualities. The four and their families were honored recently at the club’s annual pig roast at the Bay Lodge. Hamilton, a two-year member of ... Read More »

The drowning death of Medina man Peter Radke, 42, two weeks ago at Huntington Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks in Bay Village brought tragedy to summer’s start. A spokesman for the Cleveland Metroparks reports that beaches were open at Huntington Reservation in Bay Village Sat., May 31 when Radke drowned. Radke helped get an endangered 14-year old girl to safety. ... Read More »

A suspect armed with a small black semi-automatic handgun tried to take a motorist’s radar detector on June 10 at 10:10PM, report Westlake Police. The Vermillion man had stopped for the signal on Columbia Rd. at Hilliard Blvd. when the suspect leaned in the open passenger window and grabbed at the detector. The driver then hit the gas and the ... Read More »

Wins with birdie on Tour-record, 11th playoff hole It’s ironic that last week’s Cleveland Open held at Lakewood Country Club in Westlake co-incided with the 70th anniversary of Word War II’s climactic event, the Normandy Invasion. Both will go down as The Longest Day. Especially the Cleveland Open. It saw Sunday’s final round morph into an 11-hole, record breaking playoff ... Read More »

Lee Burneson Middle School eighth graders Alex Rujawitz, Audrey Lyle and Rachael Kaiser are the 2014 winners of the Jon Thompson Civil War Poetry Contest sponsored by the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable. The three were honored at a dinner on May 14 at Cleveland’s Judson Manor, where they read their winning entries –poetic interpretations of “The Widow,” a painting showing ... Read More »

The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) has announced 10 finalists in its DiscoverDesign.org National High School Architecture Competition. Westlake, OH student, Cal Craven of Westlake High School is among the finalists who submitted design projects to redesign their high school athletic pavilions to promote healthy lifestyles. Cal is sponsored by teacher Scott Kutz. A jury team of 35 architects, engineers and ... Read More »

When Dennis Sullivan’s seventh-graders learned that they had won the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pasta for Pennies contest at the school, they made a startling request. The students asked that the Olive Garden lunch they had won for their classroom is donated to the Ronald McDonald House, a home-away-from home for families of children being treated at Cleveland-area hospitals.  Lunch ... Read More »