Garfield Heights News

By 1977 WEWS had a huge hit on its hands with The Morning Exchange and as old-time radio star Fred Allen once said, "Imitation is the sincerest form of television." If the Morning Exchange was a hit, why not do an afternoon show? And so, The Afternoon Exchange was born.

ASSIST, PROSPECT STREET: Police surrounded a house recently after finding a vehicle that matched the description of one involved in a recent hit-skip accident in Garfield Heights.

The company spends $1.6 million to buy and renovate new laboratory, says it will hire 19 more workers in next few years Growth in industrial markets, more regulations and a shortage of skilled metallurgists all mean the same to NSL Analytical Services Inc.: more business.

A McDonald's franchise owner has built a new restaurant in Garfield Heights, Ohio, to be super energy efficient, spending about $1 million of his own money for the upgrades.

THEFT, CHAGRIN BOULEVARD: Police responded late on April 25 to a report of a someone in a gray hood attempting to break into a car parked behind a flatbed truck at Mooney's Gulf station.

Crews will close the I-71 southbound exit ramp to West 25th Street from 10 p.m. Monday until 6 a.m. Tuesday .

Wilma Smith will conclude her 35-year Cleveland broadcast career on Wednesday, May 22, the last official day of the 2012-13 television season.

Scotty Kormos, who grew up in Garfield Heights and now lives in California, will appear on AXS-TV's "The World's Greatest Tribute Bands'' tonight with his Journey tribute band DSB.

Some of the products currently made for NPK by Holmes include hammer support blocks, hammer side plates, compactor frames, eccentrics, processor jaws, bushings, pins and bearing housings.