Chagrin Falls News

When Lyric Watters heard about the damage done by the Moore, Oklahoma tornado she felt she should do something to help.

GATES MILLS Village Council moved swiftly and decided May 14 to forge ahead with its plan to move emergency dispatch services out of the village.

CHAGRIN FALLS The Blossom Time Festival this weekend will conclude with the Memorial Day parade, stepping off at 10 a.m. May 27 from Triangle Park and heading to the village cemetery for a ceremony.

Unruliness: Police were called to an Orchard Avenue home May 10 for a report of a group of juveniles on the porch screaming and fighting.

Get out and see the gorgeous home and flowers at the Chagrin Falls home and garden tour and Cuyahoga County Master Gardeners plant sale.

BRUNSWICK Although symptoms of the condition itself last, in general, little more than 24 hours, a norovirus outbreak at the Brunswick City Schools this past week led to the closer of every building in the district by May 21.

Solon Center for the Arts will host the SCA One Act Festival, premiering the works of the winners of this year's fifth annual Playwriting Competition, at 7 p.m. May 23 and 7:30 p.m. May 24 at SCA, 6315 SOM Center Road.

Chagrin Falls Intermediate School students Camryn Safenovitz and Chandler Wood. Camryn will read Logan's Orders, and Chandler will recite the Gettysburg Address at this year's Memorial Day celebration.

A group of Solon Star swimmers from Chagrin Falls, Solon, Bainbridge and Aurora will attend the "Swim Fort Lauderdale International Classic" meet June 20-23, which attracts top swimmers from all over the U.S. and abroad.

HIT SKIP, PINETREE ROAD: A Pepper Pike man, 80, was cited for leaving the scene of an accident May 7 after his car hit another car at Heinen's. The two drivers exchanged words before the man left the scene, but the other driver wrote down his license plate number and police traced the car.

The assembly focused on the novel, "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies. Six teachers and sixth-grade student, Chester Hill, performed a skit to reveal the book's plot.

Intermediate School fifth grader Ginny Kazinger and her sister Marie, a Gurney School second-grader got the honors when their parents, Greg and Jean, won a Chagrin Falls Dad's Club auction.

Mayor Thomas Brick issued a proclamation that June 5 is Volunteer School Crossing Guard Appreciation Day.

BURGLARY/THEFT, BLUE HERON DRIVE: A resident reported May 11 nearly $3,500 worth of jewelry was missing from her bedroom.

For a discipline with Eastern roots, the yoga world looks a lot like the Wild West these days.

According to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, Allen Warner, 60, has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor, five counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance, two counts of voyeurism and one count of possessing criminal tools.

SUSPICIOUS, EAST WASHINGTON STREET: Officers woke a Lakewood man, 27, sleeping in his parked car 2:10 a.m. May 8. He said he worked at a restaurant in town, his girlfriend had kicked him out of his house and he had nowhere else to go for the night.

Chagrin Falls High School student Addison McBrayer, 18, who polie say claimed he had explosives in his backpack May 3 when he walked into the high school wearing a rubber horse's head mask entered a plea in Bedford Municipal Court Monday.

The Chagrin Falls PTO approved $59,001.74 in major disbursements at the organization's April meeting.

The Provisions: So-called "Insurance Navigator" bill, establishing a process for eligible agents to help Ohioans wanting to purchase insurance as part of the federal affordable health care act, informally referred to as Obamacare.