4-H Homesteaders take top honors at Cuyahoga County Fair
The North Royalton Homesteaders 4-H Club and 4-H youth members continued their historical excellence at the Cuyahoga County Fair this year. The Club, led the past year by Homesteaders Club president Kayla Kucharski, continues its path of growth with 4-H youth displaying their 4-H projects and skills at the annual Cuyahoga County Fair, held August 11-17. Throughout the year, 4-H members work on animal (market and companion animal) and non-animal projects to present at the county fair as part of 4-H, the nations largest positive youth development program. This year, 4-H members took a combinati ....
Memorial Park Pavilion Moving Forward
The city is continuing to make improvements to Memorial Park in accordance with its Master Improvement Plan. At this time, the focus is the Memorial Park lower pavilion project, which is moving forward as a result of a recent grant announcement for the project. In a statement from Mayor Paul Marnecheck, “on Monday, June 15, 2026, Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 450, the state capital appropriations budget through June 30, 2028. Included in the bill is $700,000 in funding through the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for the City of North Royalton to support construction of a ....
Ohio Supreme Court upholds Brinkman death sentence
On August 20, 2026, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of George Brinkman, Jr., who killed a North Royalton mother and her two daughters in June, 2017. On January 28, 2019, George Brinkman Jr. was sentenced to death by the panel of three Cuyahoga County Judges, Peter Corrigan, Timothy McCormick and Michael Shaughnessy, for the murder of Suzanne Taylor, 45, and her daughters Taylor Pifer, 21, and Kylie Pifer, 19. The judges originally handed down the three separate death sentences. Brinkman originally pleaded not guilty to the crimes, but changed his plea to guilty to the agg ....
School Is in Session, Be Aware of Bus Safety
With today being the start of the new North Royalton School year, school is now officially in session, and so is the daily commute of students around the city on school buses. The North Royalton Police Department wants to remind motorists to keep this in mind and act accordingly regarding the laws about stopping around school buses. According to the laws of the state of Ohio, when approaching a school bus that is in the process of dropping off children: - Drivers approaching a school bus in any direction must stop at least ten feet from the front or rear of the school bus. That goes for driv ....
City Council approves ward redistricting plan
North Royalton City Council unanimously adopted legislation at the July 7 meeting that accepts the findings of the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission’s analysis of population to determine if changes were required in the city’s six wards. Every four years, the city of North Royalton views the city’s population overall and how each ward has been affected. With the growth or decline in certain areas of the wards, the city then redistricts them in order to accommodate the shift in population, making each ward even, contiguous and compact. This has taken place since 1978. The redistrict ....
