Westlake

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 »

Westlake Porter Library hosted a reception honoring Board President Bob Plantz on receiving the Ohio Library Council’s Trustee Award of Achievement on Oct. 16. In the photos, State Representative Nan Baker, Westlake Mayor Dennis Clough and Westlake Porter Public Library Director Andrew Mangels congratulate  Bob. Andrew Mangels is seen holding the award, which Bob Plantz received at an October 8 ... Read More »

Westlake Police report that officers arrested 41 year old Christina Melaragno of Gates Mills today at the Gardens of Westlake, 27569 Detroit Road. Melaragno is the Executive Administrator of the assisted living facility and the former Director of Nursing. Authorities executed a search warrant for the offices and charged Melaragno with burglary for entering resident rooms on several occasions and ... Read More »

Westlake Police responded to a caller who spotted what he thought was a male with a shotgun in some woods on Clemens Rd. at 4:02 PM on Oct. 15. It turned out that a New York man staying nearby was just playing his clarinet, noodling away, a la Benny Goodman. Man Hits Wife A 38-year-old Westlake man was arrested for ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

Here is the Best of the West Shore Police Blotter for the week. Man Kidnaps Himself for Ransom Money Talk about your low self esteem! Westlake Police were contacted last week about a man who faked his own kidnapping and then settled for a measly $310 in ransom money! Just who was this guy? Westlake Police report he is a ... Read More »