Cleveland Heights News

City Council members had some tough questions June 12 about the potential Cleveland Heights-University Heights school district facilities project and bond issue, but members of the school board and the lay facilities committee were ready with answers.

The The Brunswick Board of Education will be asked to approve choices for six new principals at its next meeting.

Five Cumberland Pool lifeguards were recognized by City Council June 17 for their role in saving a man who suffered an apparent pulmonary embolism at the facility last week.

Boxing legend Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini will be on hand for a 7:30 p.m. screening of the biographical documentary "The Good Son: The Life of Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini" June 18 at the Cedar Lee Theatre, 2163 Lee Road.

CRIMINAL DAMAGE, MAYWOOD ROAD: A woman was sitting in her home at 1:18 a.m. June 4 when she thought she heard the sound of gunshots.

Last week was another week of interesting news, feature and sports stories about Cleveland Heights.

THEFT, CEDAR ROAD: A Brooklyn Heights woman, 29, took cosmetics June 7 from Sephora, but during the arrest she had a seizure.

Before you hire someone to update your electrical system, it's helpful to know how your present system is functioning.

Doorman Ray Almond opens a Lakeside Avenue door for the new Cleveland Convention Center to visitors including Denver and Liz Rearick with son Corbin, of Cleveland Heights, for a first public look at the complex on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

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City Council has issued a moratorium on new businesses that seek to issue payday loans without a license under the state's Short-Term Loan Law until the Ohio Supreme Court rules on an interest rate loophole case.

Bring dad to the "Father's Day Lego Spectacular" building party from 2-3 p.m. Sunday at the Lee Road library, 2345 Lee Road in Cleveland Heights.

The City of Cleveland Heights and Cain Park present the Broadway hit Smokey Joe's Caf - The Songs of Leiber and Stoller June 14-June 30 .

But a movie focussing on real-life heroes, all kinds of men striving to be good Dads,was shot here.

Mamai Theatre Company is starting its inaugural season with a bang -- or shall we say a howl? -- with Euripides' "Medea," in a U.S. premiere of the translation by Irish poet and novelist Brendan Kennelly.

Guitarist-arranger Michael Occhipinti brings his jazz band to Nighttown next week on Thursday, June 27, to showcase his latest project, a jazz-infused reimagining of the works of John Lennon.

The Columbus trio -- Marcy Mays, Jovan Karcic and Sue Harshe -- took the road less traveled.

Musical father-daughter duo Franklin and Diana Cohen will present the second annual ChamberFest Cleveland June 20-30 at venues across Northeast Ohio.

The 57 communities recycled 227,473 tons of residential waste last year - an average of 356 pounds per person, according to the Residential Recycling Report released by the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District .

Cain Park opens its 75th anniversary season Saturday night with a benefit concert for PAWS Ohio , a non-profit dedicated to placing rescued dogs and cats into loving homes.