NRHS Mock Trial Team Advances to State Competition
The North Royalton High School Mock Trial Team is headed to the state competition after an impressive showing at both District and Regional tournaments, continuing to build on the program’s rapid growth and success. This year’s case challenged students to tackle a timely and complex constitutional issue centered on the Fourth Amendment. Students argued an evidentiary hearing in which the defendant, Morgan Remy, sought to suppress DNA evidence obtained through investigative genetic genealogy. Competitors examined whether Remy had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his DNA and whether s ....
2025-2026 Deer Stats
The deer hunting season has drawn to a close and the statistics for North Royalton have been tallied. With this season’s end, North Royalton Chief of Police, Keith Tarase, reported the 2025-26 season’s update to Council at a recent Council Safety Committee meeting. The Ohio Deer Hunting Season for 2025-26 , for archery, started on September 27, 2025 and concluded on February 1, 2026, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. “The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), commonly referred to as the whitetail, is perhaps Ohio’s best-known wildlife species,” accordi ....
Council Votes to Allow All to Participate
The North Royalton City Council corrected an issue that they didn’t know existed. They were unaware that not all were allowed to address them during Council meetings. The rule that was on the books stated that any resident, by submitting a request, may speak at a regular council meeting on agenda items. The public can be heard at end of the meeting, on miscellaneous items. A poll was taken on twenty different communities, where it was shown that sixteen allowed only residents to speak. Nineteen of those communities required a name and address. The time allowed to speak ranged from t ....
School Board News
The North Royalton Board of Education’s monthly School Board meeting took place on Thursday, February 12. Assistant Superintendent, Melissa Vojta reported on a teaching and learning update. The Board approved the following 2025-26 appropriation adjustments: Fund 300 District Managed Student Activity Fund, from $630,000 to $680,000; Fund 516-9026 IDEA-B Fund from $1,185,800.67 to $1,185,766.90; Fund 551-9026 Title III Language from $47,940.51 to $48,123.97; Fund 572-9026 Title I-A from $416,439.61 to $418,758.90; Fund 587-9026 Early Childhood from $23,200.55 to $23,205.18; Fund 590-902 ....
City Planning on Solution for Salt Shortages
North Royalton Service Director, Nick Cinquepalmi addressed City Council at the Council’s February 3 Streets Committee meeting regarding a solution to the City’s recent salt shortage problems. Mayor Larry Antoskiewicz has directed Cinquepalmi to put together a plan for a brand new salt barn to house additional amounts of salt. This plan will help alleviate problems the city has experienced this winter season, due to shortages from Cargill Salt. Snow began in early November and continued consistently throughout November, December, January and most of the beginning of February. This imp ....
