Westlake

  The Great Big Home and Garden Show, February 8-16 at the I-X Center, will showcase the top ten area high school model home designs from the 17th annual Student Model Home Design Contest, held January 18, 2014 at Cuyahoga Valley Career Center in Brecksville. The Westlake High School senior team of CHRIS TSUEI, CHRIS STONE, ROB SLATER, AND CONNOR ... Read More »

Three Westlake High School students won Gold Key awards in the Cuyahoga County Scholastic Art & Writing Competition, which recognizes creative achievement of seventh to 12th grade students throughout Cuyahoga County. Senior Madeline Chernosky and junior Sadie Roff won Gold Key awards. Madeline also won two Honorable Mentions and Sadie won a Silver Key award. Senior Alex Sierputowski, who is ... Read More »

A competitive cheerleader since the age of 4, Westlake High senior Courteney Belmonte has lived her life tumbling, twisting and flying through the air. That passion was nearly shattered when she was diagnosed with scoliosis at the age of 14. The condition threatened Courteney’s physical well-being and her way of life. Thanks to medical intervention by Dr. Ryan Goodwin, Pediatric ... Read More »

Raphael D. BENJAMIN 32 years old of Cleveland was found unresponsive laying on his cell bunk at the Westlake City Jail on Jan. 15 at apprx. 1PM. WPD employees gave him CPR and used an AED in an attempt to revive him. Westlake FD responded and found no signs of life. Ohio BCI was requested to assist with the sudden ... Read More »

Two Lee Burneson Middle School Academic Challenge teams competed Dec. 14 in the Copley-Fairlawn Middle School Academic Challenge Tournament, competing in separate brackets against teams from Cloverleaf (Lodi), Copley-Fairlawn, CVCA (Cuyahoga Falls), Granville, Hawken (Lyndhurst), Lincoln (Warren) and Sacred Heart (Wadsworth). The two teams finished undefeated this season with perfect 7-0 records in their respective brackets. Advisors are John and ... Read More »

  Westlake Police report that a  23-year-old Avon Lake man caused 2 crashes within moments of each other on Jan. 14 at 10:22 p.m. on Bradley Rd. The driver fled from the first crash, and then caused serious injury to a 28-year Westlake woman, who was the driver of the second car he hit. He was arrested for Agg. Vehicular ... Read More »

Westlake Democratic Club Meeting January 21, 2014  –  7:00 pm At: Western Cuyahoga Lodge 25, FOP Hall  26145 Center Ridge Rd, Westlake, OH Speaker:Todd LeVeck, Democratic Candidate for Ohio House District 16 Topic:How to win this seat back: Todd’s campaign strategy and important issues. Read More »

“Flash, Bam, Curtain” is the title of the musical program Lauren Elizabeth Gronvall, will present on Thursday, January 23, at 7 p.m., at Porter Public Library, 27333 Center Ridge Road.   For a second year the Westlake-Westshore Arts Council is sponsoring “Catch a Rising Star…Baldwin Wallace Music Theater in Recital.” Gronvall, a BW music theater major, performs her senior recital, a ... Read More »

Randy Kimbro of the FBI Citizens Community Outreach program will lead a panel on “Social Networking & Young Children” on Wednesday, Jan. 15, from 7 to 8 p.m. at Lee Burneson Middle School, 2260 Dover Center Road. The program, geared to K-6 parents and students, will cover cell phones, social networking, cyberbullying, live chat and “follow me” cell phone apps. ... Read More »

Honored as  the 2014 Ohio Superintendent of the Year by the Buckeye Association of School Administrators, the night belonged to Westlake Supt. of Schools Dr. Dan Keenan, Jr. at ceremonies held in the rotunda of the new Westlake High School Monday. But it was a line from Dr. Keenan’s father, Dr. Daniel J. Keenan, Sr., that offered the most important ... Read More »