Avon Lake News

This is our first installment of Names in the News, where you'll be able to find out a little more about newsmakers in Avon and Avon Lake.

Avon Lake Service Department maintenance worker John Wedell puts up American flags along Electric Boulevard in preparation of Mondays parade.

A few Avon grocery stores have adjusted their schedule for Memorial Day, but in Avon Lake, everything stays the same at the Convenient Food Mart and Giant Eagle.

While the Avon and Avon Lake area might not have as many stages for live music as some nearby communities, they sure can put up a great debate deciding which is best in what turned out to be one of the tightest polls yet in Readers' Choice history.

GuitarMania is back. Beginning today and continuing throughout the summer, the public art project in downtown Cleveland will show off giant guitars for visitors and residents.

WAKEMAN - An open-air summer shelter that was used for years by Boy Scouts is getting a thorough makeover into a year-round facility, courtesy of an Avon Lake power plant.Camp officials knew the 40-by-20-foot pavilion at the Firelands Scout Reservation off Gore Orphanage Road was in bad shape, and something needed to be done."There was the ... (more)

Motorists in the area of the Nagel Road-Interstate 90 construction project will have new traffic patterns to follow starting Tuesday.

As is the tradition, Avon Lake will again host extensive Memorial Day ceremonies including a parade, and ceremonies at the Avon Lake Cemetery and Folger Home.

The Ellen Trivanovich Aquatic Center will open this Memorial Day weekend.A Avon Lake residents can do some laps, spring off the high board, twist and turn down the big blue slide, or just take a cool and refreshing dip between the hours of 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 26; Sunday, May 27; and Monday, May 28.A Weather permitting, the pool, ... (more)

The new Avon Lake Goodwill store in Learwood Plaza in Avon Lake is the seventh Goodwill location to open in Lorain County.

Where's your favorite spot in Avon or Avon Lake to take in some live music? Admittedly, this isn't Lakewood, where a stroll down Madison Avenue guarantees you'll find a number of places with live bands.

WhenA Charlotte "Charlie" Zimmerman made her grand entrance into this world Monday night, it wasn't exactly the way anyone planned.

AVON LAKE, Ohio - Simply knowing their colors or days of the week isn't always an indicator that your 5-year old child is ready for kindergarten.A As a result, more and more families in Northeast Ohio are holding back their child from entering school: it's a growing controversial trend called redshirting.

The Avon Lake Public Library Gallery was packed with family and friends of three honored on May 17 for their work in the community.

Every eight weeks, World War II veterans who were lucky to eat a potato a day while imprisoned at well-known Stalag 17B eat a potluck meal in Brook Park.

Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School has done it again. Earlier this week, Newsweek named the school one of the best in America .

An air quality advisory has been issued to Lorain County, along with Cleveland and Akron for Wednesday by the Ohio EPA.

Coming on the heels of U.S. News' high school rankings , Newsweek released its list of top 1,000 public high schools in the United States, and Avon Lake High School made that list as well.

Medina junior Ian McKee, shown racing earlier this season, advanced from the Amherst Division I District as a member of the 4x800- and 4x400-meter relays.

The North Coast Chamber of Commerce 21st Annual Golf Outing will be at Sweetbriar Golf Club, 750 Jaycox Road, in Avon Lake at 10:30 a.m. "Just as last year, we plan on another sold out event! The ever so popular helicopter ball drop will be back and the day is always a fun event with lots of food, prizes, golf and comradery, said Linda Hamann, ... (more)