Bay Village Bay Days 2025 Fun For the Whole Family! Join us for the 2025 Annual Bay Days in Bay Village! During the four day carnival, July 2-5, catch up with family and friends, enjoy thrilling rides, fuel up with delicious food, listen to local music and celebrate 4th of July with stunning fireworks on July 5. Open daily from ... Read More »
Retired Avon Lake teacher continues lifelong learning at LCCC Kathy Leopold has stories to tell. She attended the 1968 summer Olympics and the 1970 World Cup. She traveled by herself to a village in Taiwan in 1977 to visit her parents. And all she had to find her way was a photo of the house they lived in. She survived ... Read More »
The Cleveland Guardians are one of Major League Baseball’s most successful franchises. Year after year they finish close to the top, making the playoffs and giving fans plenty of thrills. Competing in a so-called “small market” against teams with massive payrolls (think Yankees and Dodgers, who have a $200 million tab), the Guardians pull it off year after year. What ... Read More »
The City of Westlake has a Revolutionary War connection within Evergreen Cemetery located at 29535 Center Ridge Road. At rest in the cemetery are the remains of six Revolutionary War veterans – men who battled the British 250 years ago to establish American independence. After the war, they made their way west to the area known as the Western Reserve ... Read More »
All the high drama going on in the world today isn’t just happening on Wall Street or Washington, DC. A much more enjoyable form of drama is on stage in our local high school auditoriums and performing arts centers where casts and crew have been wowing audiences with incredible productions. Bay High Drama closed their spring musical production of The ... Read More »
The greatest calling….. by Leigh Keeton City of Elyria Parks and Rec supervisor and LCCC women’s basketball coach Brandon Lawler uses his journey through life and faith to positively impact those around him One wrong decision. That’s all Brandon Lawler says it would have taken for his life to have turned out drastically different. Today, Lawler is the Parks and ... Read More »
What is our local Supt. of Schools’ take on the Dept of Ed dismantling announced by the Trump administration last week? How might it affect area schools as well as schools across the country in general? Is there a way to address this without getting too political? Not asking to create a controversy, just straight info. Here is the answer ... Read More »
Less than 18 months after the Rev. Dr. Buckley Wilford provided spiritual comfort for Linda Lowery’s dying mother in the Intensive Care Unit at University Hospitals St. John Medical Center, he united Linda with her lifelong partner in marriage. Lowery could never forget the UH St. John Medical Center chaplain who had come to see her 87-year-old mother and prayed ... Read More »
The West Shore Chamber of Commerce hosted a special farewell celebration, “A Toast to John Sobolewski,” on February 27, 2025, at the Elks Lodge in Westlake, where over 100 guests gathered to honor John Sobolewski’s 39 years of leadership as Executive Director. Throughout the evening, business leaders, elected officials, and longtime friends paid tribute to John’s remarkable contributions to the ... Read More »
At his annual State of the City address sponsored by the West Shore Chamber of Commerce earlier this month, Westlake Mayor Dennis Clough reported he has filed to run for office again this year. Unopposed, this will be Mayor Clough’s 11th term. He has administered the city since 1986. Clough has seen many changes to his community since ‘86. There ... Read More »
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