Frigid weather causes increase in water main breaks
Water main breaks are unpredictable, although a big factor is weather. The colder the weather is for an extended period of time; the more water main breaks seem to occur. Breaks can also occur when there is a sudden increase in water pressure in a water main, such as when a fire hydrant is closed too suddenly. So far, 2021 has not been kind in this regard, as it has been reported that about sixteen breaks have occurred since the beginning of this year. “This last couple months, we’ve had numerous breaks,” said Mayor Larry Antoskiewicz. He adds that the “Cleveland Water Department ....
School Board News
The North Royalton Board of Education’s monthly School Board meeting took place on Monday, February 8. The Board re-appointed Biagio Sidoti as the District’s Treasurer for a five-year term, beginning August 1, 2021, through July 31, 2026. The Board approved the following 2020-21 appropriation adjustments: • 516 IDEA PART B Special Education $1,075,234.75 to $1,072,641.14 •572 Title I $367,949.96 to $368,719.13 • 587 Early Childhood Special Education $22,984.06 to $22,941.24 • 590 Title II-A $106,875.10 to $112,284.50 • 599 Title IV-A $29,134.94 to $30,145.38 • 4 ....
North Royalton to host Artisan Market on City Green
The City Green will be the place to be, starting this spring. An Artisan Market, CLE Market, will be coming to North Royalton starting in May. The pop-up, produce-style outdoor market will take place one Saturday a month from May through October. “The market will showcase thirty vendors, including local businesses, selling high quality foods, baked goods, art, textiles, flowers and more,” according to CLE Market officials. CLE Market was first established in 2020 in northeast Ohio. According to Mayor Larry Antoskiewicz, “We’ll be doing it once a month, starting in May and running ....
UH assistant manager wins game ticket of a lifetime
When Catherine Wilson received an email at work alerting her that she had won a free ticket to Super Bowl LV, she figured it was spam and quickly deleted it. Then came the follow-up phone call with the same news. “I thought it was a prank call,” said Wilson, a North Royalton resident who works as emergency room assistant nurse manager at UH Cleveland Medical Center. But it was no prank. Together with the Cleveland Browns, University Hospitals had selected three local health care heroes to be the team’s special guests at the Feb. 7 Super Bowl in Tampa Bay and Wilson was one of them, al ....
Greek Orthodox Church finding ways to bring parishioners together
Eleni Johnson of St. Paul Greek Orthodox Church remembers March 8, 2020, very well. It was, unbeknownst to anyone at the Wallings Road church, the last time the large youth ministry population would see each other again before the pandemic changed everything. “When the kids left Sunday School and dance practice, the whole world shut down that week,” Johnson reflected. “Many of them haven’t been back. Youth ministries have either been postponed or turned to Zoom.” Now, almost a year later, Johnson, who serves as Hellenic Dance director and co-adviser for Greek Orthodox Youth of Am ....