NRHS Alumni Association honors the past and embraces the future

In the 1950s, just a few thousand men and women called North Royalton home. Gas and power lines had only recently been brought in and our municipality was still officially a Village and not yet a City. It was a tight-knit farming community, and those enrolled in school shared even closer ties. These relationships continue today in the form of the North Royalton High School Alumni Association. “All of my classmates were like my brothers,” said member Marlyn Cerino, a 1953 North Royalton High School graduate who earned her diploma that year with less than 50 others. She became an active Alu ....

Jan 8, 2018

City Council adopts five-year sewer rate plan

City Council unanimously adopted legislation at the December 19 meeting that will result in a change in sewer bills for most residents. The legislation, was introduced at the November 21 City Council meeting by the Council Finance Committee of Council President, Larry Antoskiewicz, Ward 2 Councilman Gary Petrusky and Ward 4 Councilman Paul Marnecheck. The legislation was placed on second reading at that meeting, then on third reading at the December 5 meeting, with the final vote taking place on December 19. It amends the current ordinance regarding sanitary sewer charges in the city’s codi ....

Jan 8, 2018

City Green Project on Target for 2018

North Royalton’s City Green will get a facelift this year, after the removal last year of the old city hall last July. The City Green is located at the intersection of Rt 82, Bennett and Ridge Roads and has served as a gathering place for many events over the years. On December 19, a presentation was given to City Council by North Royalton Community Development Director, Tom Jordan, and representatives from Brandstetter Carroll Incorporated on the project. Jordan said that the city appointed Brandstetter Carroll, Incorporated as the architect to offer concepts to replace the old City Hall t ....

Jan 8, 2018

School community meeting shares facilities progress

Over one hundred residents braved the frigid weather to attend a community meeting that not only highlighted the progress being made on the North Royalton School District facilities plan, but also to participate in the finer details of the plan. The meeting was held on Wednesday, January 3, at the North Royalton High School Performing Arts Center. School Superintendent Greg Gurka began the meeting by giving the long history of how the district came to the point where it is now in the process, through the realization of the need, several failed bond issues, formalization of the need and ultima ....

Jan 8, 2018

City and Chamber of Commerce plan big birthdays this year

North Royalton proudly proclaimed its centennial in 1918. That year the “Great War” in Europe would come to an end. The United States did its part to help the Allies, Britain and France, fight the war to end all war. North Royalton, along with the rest of the nation, celebrated the Armistice of November 11. North Royalton welcomed home thirty-six of thirty-nine men, husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers, who answered the call of duty to their country. In victory the city mourned the loss of three that could not return to the arms of a loving family and a grateful nation. During that centen ....

Jan 8, 2018