Westlake

Dave Greenspan, District 1 Cuyahoga County Councilmember,  announced today passage of an ordinance he sponsored calling for greater financial accountability. The ordinance passed 10-1 at the June 24th meeting of the Cuyahoga County Council. Cuyahoga County Ordinance O2104-0013 requires internal requests for public funds to provide an overview, budget, milestones/timelines and staffing levels for all new programs and services.  Prior ... Read More »

A 69-year-old Lorain woman left her Jack Russell terrier in her car while she shopped at a Market St. store at Crocker Park  on July 1 at 6 p.m., report Westlake Police. The dog was in distress and was released from the vehicle by an officer who unlocked it. The dog gulped 20oz of water provided by a passerby and ... Read More »

Westlake Police hold felony warrants for Shawuan M TELFAIR, 28-years-old (last known address in Cleveland). TELFAIR was a manager at a Westlake group home and used the Ohio Direction cards of three developmentally disabled male residents to make purchases totaling $749 that were not for those residents. TELFAIR was dismissed in Nov. 2013; the thefts occurred during and after her ... Read More »

A suspicious male entered a Detroit Rd. restaurant on June 20 at 1:30PM claiming that the cable system there needed a new part, report Westlake Police. He was not in uniform and could not produce any paperwork. He also could not find the part that needed replacing. Management followed up with the cable provider, who also could not verify that ... Read More »

As stated at the start of the superintendent search process, the Board of Education is committed to finding the right person to fill this very important role for the Westlake City Schools. When the Board began this process, it indicated a desire to first attempt to name a new superintendent by June, but it was important that if the right ... Read More »

Four intoxicated wedding guests threw room furnishings and beer cans/bottles out the fourth floor window of their Detroit Rd. hotel room on June 15 at 3:52AM, report Westlake Police.. Bay Village PD sent 2 officers to assist with the arrests of a 24-year-old Lakewood man, 25-year-old Vermillion man, 24-year-old Millersburg man, and a 24-year-old Dennison man, all for DCI and ... Read More »

The Westlake City Schools’ top candidate for the superintendent position – Dr. Jeffrey Graham, superintendent of Parma City Schools – withdrew his name from consideration after he and the Westlake Board of Education were unable to agree to contract terms. The Board offered the superintendent position to Dr. Graham on June 19 following a focused search process and presentations to ... 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 »

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 »

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 »