Westlake

  From the “That’s Just Nasty” file: Westlake Police report that at 2:16 p.m.  on Sept. 9, a Detroit Rd. gas station employee reported that a male (later identified  as a 24-year-old North Olmsted man) was heating up urine in the station’s microwave.   When confronted and sent packing posthaste, he claimed it was fake urine to be used to ... Read More »

There’s no expiration date on this child of God 92-year old  Louise Haskins of Avon was baptized two weeks ago at Church on the Rise. The Water Baptism ceremony took place during a 20th anniversary celebration service at the Westlake church, located at 3550 Crocker Road. Pastor Paul Endrei hosted several special events as part of the anniversary observance two week’s ... Read More »

Congratulations to THEODORE POULOS (2013 senior) & PETER SLATER (junior) of the Westlake High School STEM, Technology & Engineering Education Department for winning a Best of Show and the coveted Zupancic Award at the 2013 Ohio State Fair Technology & Engineering Showcase held at the beginning of August in the Lausche conference center. POULOS & SLATER teamed up to design ... Read More »

  Fall is set to arrive very shortly and the Westlake Recreation Department is ready to go.  Four special events are on the calendar so stop on in and register before the leaves fall and you are left holding the rake! First up is our inaugural Spooktacular Scarecrow Contest.  For $20 you will receive the wood, nails and straw.  The ... Read More »

The Battle for the Little Brown Jug – the annual rivalry between the Westlake and Bay High football teams – was another terrific contest again this year. Although Westlake won, 20-14, both teams rose to the occasion in a rivalry so old it dates back to the days when Dover High split up into different communities – the cities of ... Read More »

  For want of a front license plate, $3179 was lost, and so was the pot. So might begin a poem about the travails of a 20-year-old Cleveland man and 21-year-old Cleveland woman who were stopped on I-90 eastbound on Sept. 5 around 12:35 p.m. in Westlake. The license plate violation quickly became the least of their worries after the ... Read More »

Fugitive Missourian Arrested Westlake Police report that at 1:03 p.m. this afternoon, fugitive Brian ADKISON was observed bicycling on Detroit Rd. near Cahoon Rd. by a citizen. ADKISON ducked into woods near Cahoon Rd. and Bryandale Drive. Officers from Avon, Bay Village, Fairview Park, North Olmsted, and Rocky River set up a perimeter in the area bounded by I-90, the railroad ... Read More »

Westlake Police Report $607 cash went AWOL from a Rose Rd. home on the night of Aug. 22. The homeowner found the greenbacks missing and suspects that a Bay Village male (friend of her boyfriend’s son) who was sent on his way from the house that night might be involved. She got nowhere when she repeatedly called and went to ... Read More »

On 9-3-13 at 4:29AM A Westlake PD patrolman tried to question a male sleeping in a pickup truck at the Hampton Inn on Detroit Rd. The male took off westbound on Detroit Rd. into Avon near Avon Commons, where Westlake PD called off the pursuit. At 4:44AM, North Ridgeville PD reported pursuing the same vehicle eastbound on Center Ridge Rd. ... Read More »

The Westlake Police Department and police departments across Cuyahoga County are banding together to get drunk drivers off Northeast Ohio roads and protect motorists by supporting the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign.   This year’s nationwide campaign will run from mid-August through the Labor Day holiday (August 16 through September 2).   “As summer ends and families hit ... Read More »