Westlake

Bassett Elementary School’s Honor Choir performed at the Oberlin Choristers Children’s Honor Choir on March 2 at The Stocker Arts Center at Lorain County Community College. The Honor Choir consisted of more than 200 voices from 16 different schools in Lorain, Cuyahoga and Huron counties. Each year area music teachers in grades four through six are invited to train a select ... Read More »

The Lee Burneson Middle School Math Demons and a team from Parkside Intermediate School took home some of the top awards in their division at the 2013 Equations competition at the Cuyahoga County Educational Service Center. Westlake took three teams to competition against eight other school districts and 144 students. The LBMS eighth-grade team – Anna Craven, Sneha Ramachandran, Alex ... Read More »

      Six Westlake High School Honors English students were selected for special recognition through the Cleveland Clinic eXpressions writing program. Blue ribbons and $100 went to juniors Haley Lyle for “I’m Too Early” and Kailey Mau for “Geremy’s Travels.” Red ribbons and $75 went to juniors Krystina Horvath for “Trapped” and Natalija Tyler for “Temporalnova in the Doctor’s ... Read More »

Lee Burneson Middle School won the Gardens That Teach Challenge in Cuyahoga County.  Tunnel Vision Hoops will work with Technology teacher Kurt Thonnings to install a $2,246 hoop house at the new middle school this spring. The Hummingbird Project also is donating a Healthy Soil Workshop valued at $600 to LBMS, teaching students about the complex soil food web. The ... Read More »

Westlake High School, under the guidance of World Language teacher Anne-Frances Zaborniak Budz, recently established its own Socieded Honoraria Hispanica, an honor society for high school students enrolled in Spanish and Portuguese. Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, there are about 2,000 active chapters nationally. The group recognizes high achievement of high school students in ... Read More »

The Westlake High School Orchestra received unanimous “Superior” ratings at the Ohio Music Education Association’s State Orchestra Contest at Bowling Green High School. This is the second consecutive year WHS students have competed in the highest and most difficult class in the state. The OMEA promotes music education in elementary and secondary schools, as well as colleges and universities. It ... Read More »

“I love to swim and help people” replied Tyler Sugimoto a 3rd grader at Dover Elementary school.  So when it came time to do his community service project the Swim for MS opportunity was a natural fit.  Tyler swam 20 laps at the Westlake Rec Center on Sunday, February 24th and raised over $435.00 to support MS efforts.  Way to ... Read More »

Door to door solicitors play on older people’s respect for vets, police and firefighters, and love of little kids. On 2-26-13, a 72-year-old Westlake woman and her adult daughter reported an incident of an unlicensed solicitor approaching the older woman for a donation. The solicitor Anthony A. ASHBY (40 years old, last known address in Cleveland) initially approached the victim ... Read More »

The Westlake Recreation Department will be hosting its annual 3 on 3 March Madness youth basketball tournament.  This tournament is open to any 3rd -8th grade boy or girl.  This is a double elimination tournament and will feature separate divisions of boys and girls.  Grade divisions will be 3/4, 5/6 & 7/8.  Rosters will be limited to 4 players per ... Read More »

Pot Purchase Proceeds Poorly At 8:54PM on 2-25-13, a 19-year-old North Ridgeville man reported that he had been robbed an hour earlier in a public parking garage on Vine St. \\ Further investigation revealed that he had met an acquaintance there to buy marijuana; that acquaintance (19-year-old Joseph POLOMSKY of Westlake) produced a handgun (later found to be a BB ... Read More »