Cuyahoga Heights News

Padua's Mark Spehar carries the football. Padua finished the regular season strong with a 35-14 North Coast League football win against Holy Name.

It was a good night to be an incumbent mayor in Cuyahoga County's suburbs on Tuesday.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources awarded $6.25 million in grants from the Clean Ohio Trails Fund to 25 projects, including three in Cuyahoga County .

Case Western Reserve University has received a $20.5 million gift from one of its dental school graduates.

The U.S. Postal Service made an about face on its plan to possibly close its office here.

DRUNKEN DRIVING, ROCKSIDE ROAD: Police on Sept. 9 arrested a 31-year-old Cuyahoga Heights woman for drunken driving after stopping her car for speeding near Maureen Drive.

The Cuyahoga Valley and Garfield chambers of commerce will join together to present the "Greatest Business and Community Expo Ever" Sept.

Two men are behind bars after running from police. The chase started just after 8 a.m. Saturday on Granger Road in Brooklyn Heights.

More than a dozen students from Northeast Ohio gathered around ponds at the Ohio and Erie Canal Reservation on East 49th Street in Cuyahoga Heights to learn and practice the basics of how to read the signs of water quality -- temperature, clarity, aquatic life and more.

Several interesting enviro-political themes bubbled to the surface earlier this week during a U.S. EPA hearing in Northeast Ohio on how the Obama administration's proposed $475 million Great Lakes Initiative ought to be spent.

Posted by Joan Mazzolini / Plain Dealer Reporter July 27, 2009 17:58PM The sewer district's chief lawyer helped a company try to shift blame onto his employer for a costly sewer collapse, according to sworn statements from the president of the company.

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There will be some new names on the ballots this fall for Village Council seats.

Posted by Michael Scott / Plain Dealer Reporter July 26, 2009 19:22PM If you go .

Drivers were caught in traffic Thursday night after a crash involving a mattress.

Lexi Baciak shows off her Safety Town graduation certificate. Lexi Baciak of Brooklyn Heights shows off her graduation certificate from Safety Town in this photo sent in by her mom, Kari Baciak.

Gate 4's quiet these days. A "Gate Closed" sign blocks the entrance drive to ArcelorMittal's idle steel mill that branches off Harvard Avenue in Cuyahoga Heights and winds into the valley.

Posted by Mark Holan, Sun Courier -- mholan@sunnews.com July 18, 2009 09:45AM Categories: Student of the Week Kalli Rossi is the Sun Courier Student of the Week for July 16, 2009.

The Great Lakes are facing big problems: invasive species, air pollution from China, an uncertain future from global warming and continuing toxic problems.

Today, Cleveland Metroparks will hold a dedication for the Lake to Lake Trail in its Big Creek Reservation.