Cuyahoga Heights News

High School students and their parents from Brecksville-Broadview Heights, Cuyahoga Heights, Independence and North Royalton are invited to attend a Cuyahoga Valley Career Center information night from 7-9 p.m. January 7. Attendees will have a chance to visit the center, meet teachers from the 14 career track programs and ask questions.

The Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District is considering lengthening the school day for elementary school students.

2 from a car parked in a driveway. The driver's side window had been shattered to gain entry.

A manufacturer of military equipment purchased a Solon industrial building and will move there next year from Cuyahoga Heights.

Ben Tedrick, a biologist with the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, cultures brine shrimp last spring in the water testing lab at the Southerly Treatment Plant in Cuyahoga Heights.

Joey played Randy, Ralphie's little brother, in the 2007 production of "A Christmas Story." The coveted role of Ralphie Parker in the Cleveland Play House's final production of "A Christmas Story" has been Joey Stefanko's goal ever since he played Ralphie's little brother Randy in the 2007 production.

The opponents and sites for the Ohio High School Athletic Association state football semifinals have been set with Coshocton and Ridgewood traveling in opposite directions.

A group of "shepherd dogs" help Sgt. Brad Borowy, top left, including bottom left, Mary Digeronimo, Rachel Hollingsworth, Nicole Schmetzer, middle row Justin Kotlarsic, Alexa Gervasi, Carey Artrip and, top, Sam Stretar.

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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