The Avon Lake City Schools will be hosting the 1st annual District-wide Community Challenge at 7:15 p.m. March 27 at Avon Lake High School, 175 Avon Belden Road. The event features grades K-6 staff members vs. grades 7-12 staff members in a friendly basketball game. The money raised from the event will fund an Avon Lake scholarship account. Each year an Avon Lake student ... Read More »
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Home Defense: Protect Yourself from Spring Storms
This winter’s wet and icy weather has raised questions on ways to best protect your home from things like a flooded basement or a power outage. Did you know that one of the main causes basement water are your own downspouts, gutters and drains? If any of these are clogged or obstructed, water is unable to escape your yard and ... Read More »
Bay Police: What Was that Boom?!?
What was that boom? Now we know! On 03/11/2018, at 0347 hrs, a resident in the 600 block of Columbia Rd. called Bay Village Police to report hearing squealing tires and a loud bang. The caller also stated there was a vehicle that was half in the roadway in the area. When officers arrived on scene, they located the vehicle ... Read More »
Middle School Mathletes Bring Home Awards
Three Lee Burneson Middle School teams came home with awards from the Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics competition at Lake Ridge Academy in North Ridgeville. Thirteen teams per grade level from across Cuyahoga and Lorain counties competed. The eighth-grade LBMS team of Kathrine Xiao and Subratha Araselvan, and the seventh-grade team of Roman Lucarelli, Yehyun Choi and Michelle ... Read More »
Wanted: Westlake Police Seek Aldi’s Thief
On Sunday 3/11/18 WPD received a report of a theft from Aldi’s on Bradley and Detroit Rds. The manager reported that a male entered the store and bought a 12 pack of soda. As the cashier opened her drawer to make change for the purchase, the unknown male grabbed cash out of the drawer and took off on foot. The ... Read More »
Westlake Police: Intoxicated Mom Stopped at Westlake School
A parent who called Westlake Police on March 5 while waiting in line to pick up children at Dover Intermediate School at 3:51 p.m. was so concerned by the actions of another driver that he actually blocked the suspicious driver’s car while awaiting police intervention. The scenario began when Police received a report of a driver that possibly struck other ... Read More »
Avon-on-the-Lake Garden Club April Meeting and Plant Sale
The next general meeting of the Avon-on-the-Lake Garden Club will be held on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at the Avon Lake Public Library, 32649 Electric Blvd. A potluck lunch will be served at Noon followed by a short business meeting. Our program will feature Justin Sylvester, Horticulturalist and Landscape Designer with Statements Lawn and Landscape, who will present a class ... Read More »
Rocky River Teams Claim Four State Qualifiers in National History Day Competition
Rocky River High School and Middle School teams came away with four state qualifying entries in the National History Day Competition-Region 3. The Ohio Region 3 contest – which includes Cuyahoga, Lake, Lorain, Medina and Summit counties – was held March 3 at the Cleveland History Center. The National History Day Contest encourages students to conduct historical research on a ... Read More »
Bay High Technical Department Awarded Top High School Honor
The International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) will award Bay High technology teachers Luke Kieffer and Ron Rutt its Program Excellence Award at the organization’s annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia this April. The Program Excellence Award is one of the highest honors given to technology and engineering education programs at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Bay High was ... Read More »
Rocky River Science Olympiad Team Heading to State Competition
Rocky River Middle School’s Maroon team is headed to state competition next month after qualifying at the regional contest. Rock River Middle School Science Olympiad Maroon team finished fourth and the White Team finished 13th in Division B, while RRHS’s team finished seventh in Division C at the regional competition March 3 at St. Ignatius High School. The top six ... Read More »
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