Westlake High School freshman Katie Cirincione’s animated short film, “Checkers the Cat,” was accepted and is part of this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF40), which runs March 30-April 10 at Tower City Cinemas. Her stop-motion animation film is about a drawn cat named Checkers who comes to life. The piece was created when Katie was in Pre-engineering teacher Kurt ... Read More »
Alert to drivers: Upcoming Nagel Road Construction is coming in Avon. On or about March 14, 2016 Sitetech Inc. will begin a construction project that will serve to widen a portion of Nagel Road south of Avon Road. The project will involve the construction of a western extension of Middleton Road along with traffic signals and turn lanes on Nagel Road at the ... Read More »
With appearances on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, NBC’s Last Comic Standing and on the Tonight Show as Jay Leno’s correspondent, Rob O’Reilly is quickly gaining a reputation as an up-and-coming comedian to watch. In fact, he was named one of LA Weekly’s Top 10 Comedy Acts to Watch and one of Funny Or Die’s 30 Under 30: Comedians to ... Read More »
A group of Westlake High School students are organizing a Demon Fest rock/acoustic concert with pop music to raise money to adorn the hallways of the high school with international flags. Leadership Challenge’s Diversity group was working on the international flag installation the past two years, but the project stalled. Junior Austin Goetz, an International Baccalaureate (IB) student from Avon ... Read More »
The Avon Early Childhood PTA Spring Kid’s Kloset resale event will be held March 19 at the NEW Avon Middle School (3445 Long Road, Avon). The Early Bird sale ($5 admission fee) is from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. General sale ($2 admission fee) hours are from 9 a.m. to noon. Tables are now on sale to the public. Registration ... Read More »
Pierre Gholam, MD, of the University Hospitals Digestive Institute, will offer a hepatology clinic in Elyria on the first Thursday of every month, starting on March 3. Patients aged 18 and over will be seen in Dr. Gholam’s office located in Suite 101 of the Gates Medical Building on the UH Elyria Medical Center campus. Hepatology is the study, diagnosis, ... Read More »
Westlake’s Lee Burneson Middle School team took home the third place trophy for the MATHCOUNTS Competition at Lorain County Community College on Feb. 27. Eighth grader Richard Garber earned the fourth place overall individual score. MATHCOUNTS is a nationwide middle school competition held across the country and sponsored by the CAN Foundation, the National Society of Professional Engineers and the ... Read More »
The Avon Board of Education voted unanimously during a special meeting Feb. 29 to approve a three-year contract for Colleen Mudore to become the new principal at the Avon Early Learning Center (AELC). The building houses the district’s kindergartners and Educational Service Center of Lorain County’s Soaring Little Eagles Preschool program. Current AELC Principal, Yolanda Little, is retiring at the ... Read More »
The Westlake High School Academic Challenge team clinched the championship title with a perfect 9-0 record at the 2016 Southwestern Conference Tournament at Olmsted Falls High School on March 5. Westlake beat out teams from Amherst, Avon, Avon Lake, Berea-Midpark, Lakewood, Midview, North Olmsted, North Ridgeville and Olmsted Falls. Team members are Kyle Yu, Anna Craven, Justin Krantz, Alex Lathem, ... Read More »
The Bay High basketball team continued on the path of one of the greatest seasons in school history by claiming a Div. II district championship last weekend. The Rockets, now 22-3 overall, outfought a game Keystone squad on Saturday night, 71-59, to capture the school’s first district crown since 1993. Bay now becomes a member of the state’s elite Sweet ... Read More »
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