The OHSAA Commissioner Since 2004 Will Step Down Effective Sept. 15 Dr. Dan Ross, Executive Director of the Ohio High School Athletic Association since 2004, has announced his resignation, effective September 15. The OHSAA Board of Directors accepted Dr. Ross’ resignation letter Thursday at its regularly scheduled January meeting. Dr. Ross began his duties as the OHSAA’s ninth commissioner on Aug. 1, 2004. He ... Read More »
Installations Come in Response to Opioid Abuse Crisis in Cuyahoga County Prescription drug disposal boxes will be installed at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®) campuses by the end of January to provide secure locations for the community to throw away unused medications. Tri-C Campus Police and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office collaborated on the disposal box project in response to the region’s ongoing ... Read More »
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center will be the site for the judging and awards presentation portion of The Great Big Home & Garden Show 21st Annual Student Model Home Design Contest. The judging will take place on Friday evening (1-26-18) at approximately 5:30 p.m. in the commons. This year’s student contest theme is “The Great Modern Frank Lloyd Wright Spec House.” The speech and awards presentation will be Saturday morning ... Read More »
Deb Schrembeck’s seventh-grade Language Arts classes spent the last five weeks researching and writing fairy tales customized to second graders at Dover Elementary school. The Lee Burneson Middle School (LBMS) assignment requires stories to be at least five pages, include images and an About the Author page, and focus on the child receiving the story. Students created their fairy tales ... Read More »
The Avon Lake City Schools Foundation’s annual Sale by the Lake will fill the Avon Lake High School auxiliary gym, 175 Avon Belden Road, with a huge variety of treasures on Saturday, April 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. To reserve sales space, email ALCSFSalebythelake@gmail.com. Read More »
It May Start with Memory Loss that Disrupts Daily Life Memory loss that disrupts daily life may be a symptom of Alzheimer’s or another dementia. Alzheimer’s is a brain disease that causes a slow decline in memory, thinking and reasoning skills. There are 10 Warning Signs and symptoms. Every individual may experience one or more of these signs in a ... Read More »
A Rocky River High School senior is racking up awards and making a name for himself in the computer development field. Austin Wilson, 17, won three Amazon developer awards in the last year, earning him cash prizes, equipment and respect in the developer world. Last fall, Austin was searching how to implement AI into his Raspberry Pi (RPi). A contest ... Read More »
Five Lee Burneson Middle School students were named semifinalists in Ohio in the Library of Congress’ Letters About Literature Contest. Deb Schrembeck’s Language Arts classes participated in the reading and writing contest. Students are asked to read a book, poem or speech and write to the author (living or dead) about how the book affected them personally. Letters are judged ... Read More »
A team of Rocky River High School students took first place in the Ohio Stock Market Challenge. Team members Oliver Clingain, Grant Eversman and Sonny Ficano competed against 507 teams from throughout Ohio to win the $150 top prize. They were among teams in Social Studies and Business teacher Matthew McLaughlin’s economics and entrepreneurial ventures classes participating in the contest ... Read More »
The Cuyahoga County Department of Consumer Affairs is encouraging scam victims who wired money to scammers through Western Union to apply for refunds by the Feb. 12 deadline. Western Union agreed to pay $586 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Justice Department that the company looked the other way while scammers used its money wiring ... Read More »
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