Shaker Heights News

Steven Lin of Shaker Heights is among six University School students who brought home medals from the Science Olympiad Invitational held recently at Solon High School.

Incumbent Democrats Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kuinich don't have just each other to worry about as they face off in the March 6th primary.

St. Ignatius High School puts its perfect 35-0 record on the line against Shaker Heights to decide this year's Baron Cup I hockey champion.

Members of Verb Ballets rehearse Chung-Fu Chang's "The Lily" for its world premiere Friday at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts.

He was born Aug. 2, 1931, in Bluffton to Alfred and Marion Armentrout Muller. On July 25, 1960, he married Diane Ackerman, who survives.

Gertrude Greenberg Brown, a resident of Montefiore in Beachwood, displays one of her paintings with Mary Jane Klarich, a nurse manager at Montefiore.

Presentations by American Field Service foreign exchange students from Italy, Slovakia and Germany will be featured in a program at 7 p.m. Feb.

Grown-ups wearing fancy dresses and tuxedos with top hats and white gloves rolled out a pink carpet and offered mini-cinnamon rolls on platters to children arriving at Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts Friday morning.

SHAKER HEIGHTS City Health Director Scott Frank and his staff will be getting a raise, thanks in large part to a new collaboration with the Shaker School District.

If you are looking for some fun activities in Shaker Heights this weekend, we would like to offer the following suggestions: * Learn about the Underground Railroad in the program, "His Promised Land: John Parker and the Underground Railroad," starting at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Shaker Historical Society and Museum, 16740 South Park Blvd.

Lakewood-bred composer David Conte, shown in Rome in 2009, was commissioned by the Shaker schools to write "I Dream a World" to celebrate the centennial of Shaker Heights.

But it's now official: the ducks are in line and full funding is in place for the long-awaited reconfiguration of the Warrensville-Chagrin intersection, long the bane of motorists, cyclists and pedestrians alike.

"They destroy your children," says Elana Rose of Santa Monica, Calif. "There are certain places I simply will not let my kids go.

After years of abusing drugs and alcohol, including two arrests for selling drugs, Dan Cadesky was clean and sober -- but miserable.

SHAKER HEIGHTS In their latest cost-cutting move, city officials plan to switch the law director to an in-house position.

Stephen Klein, president of the Kentucky Center, was introduced to the stage at an early age.

Learn about the famous architects of Shaker Heights at a program 4 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Shaker Historical Society, 16740 South Park Blvd.

The Rev. Daniel E. Budd, parish minister at First Unitarian Church of Cleveland talks in the sanctuary of the Shaker Heights church about the morality of making a choice for or against having an abortion.

State Rep. Armond Budish, minority leader of the Ohio House and District 8 representative, will lead a community forum from 9:30-10:45 a.m. Feb.

When: Through Feb. 25. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; noon-4 p.m. Saturday.