Local apple farmer harvests smiles
In the fall, there can be nothing better than taking a bite out of a crisp, locally grown seasonal apple. Thanks to a partnership with Royalton Farms, the city’s youngest residents are getting the tasty treat hand-delivered to their school buildings each week by Bruce Grayson, owner of the Royalton Road family farm that’s been cultivating apple varieties since 1982. Every Monday morning during apple season, Grayson loads his pick-up truck with bushels of his farm’s apples and drives them to the various school buildings by 7 a.m. – one bushel to each elementary school, three bushels ....
Health Fair & Family Expo, 5K Bear Run set for September 29
Unless there’s a doctor in the family, it’s not very often that a person has the unique chance to walk shoulder-to-shoulder with a physician, asking questions and getting one-on-one health advice and tips in an outdoor setting. But that valuable opportunity, and many others, will come Sept. 29 during the North Royalton Health Fair & Family Expo sponsored by the City of North Royalton, North Royalton City Schools and Southwest General North Royalton Physical Therapy. Back for its ninth year at North Royalton High School, the event will be held from 8:30 a.m. until noon Sept. 29 and f ....
St. Albert the Great debuts a new TV studio as a memorial
The memory and legacy of Kathleen Cochrane DePiero will live on with every morning broadcast at Saint Albert the Great School. Family, friends and colleagues from Fox 8 gathered Sept. 7 at the Wallings Road school to dedicate a new broadcast studio in honor of Cochrane DePiero, an Emmy-award winning reporter and Fox 8 anchor who died last December from influenza. She was 38 years old. Husband Dean, and the couple’s young children, Blake, 8, and Hadley, 5, who attend Saint Albert the Great School, participated in an emotional ceremony that included a morning Mass, ribbon cutting, unveil ....
Mayor and ODOT enter agreement for resurfacing of Rt. 82
At its September 4 meeting, the North Royalton City Council adopted an ordinance that authorizes the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for the resurfacing project of Rt. 82. This is not to be confused with the widening project, but will resurface an area of Rt. 82 that is not currently being widened. Even though a portion of the Rt. 82 widening project has begun, the entirety of the stretch through North Royalton will not be widened any time soon. In fact, the portion between York Road and the eastern corporation line to Broadview Heights ....
City asks State for budget overage
The City of North Royalton has joined other Ohio cities in an effort, trying to encourage state officials to consider municipalities when they determine how to utilize a projected surplus of tax money in the state budget. On September 4, the North Royalton City Council unanimously adopted a resolution imploring Ohio Governor John Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly to distribute the state budget surplus tax dollars to municipalities. The legislation was sponsored by Mayor Bob Stefanik, Council President Larry Antoskiewicz and all of the North Royalton City Council. The cities of Barberto ....