City seeking funding to further transportation options
The North Royalton City Council unanimously adopted legislation that would authorize the Mayor to submit an application to help promote transportation options that were targeted in the city’s Alternative Transportation Plan. The application asks for $121,000 from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) funding through the Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative. The requested funding would extend the multi-use path that runs from Rt. 82, south, to North Akins Road on Bennett Road. That asphalt path was installed several years ago, when that section of Bennett Road ....
Seniors engage in the interview of a lifetime
It’s no secret that interviews can be nerve-racking encounters. There are responses to carefully rehearse, perfect outfits to select, aspects of your personality to highlight, traps to avoid, and important first impressions to make. Every moment counts. Seniors at North Royalton High School already know this to be true. While many of them have perhaps engaged in part-time job interviews throughout high school, they recently participated in one interview that helped earn them a diploma. The Class of 2018 recently completed their Senior Exit Interviews, a graduation requirement and one of th ....
Schools and stadium benefit from yummy Taste of NR event
All the ingredients came together to make the seventh annual “Taste of North Royalton” a yummy success. The event held on November 2 at the St. Paul Hellenic Center brought together more than 400 guests which helped benefit the North Royalton Education Foundation and the North Royalton Stadium Foundation. Looking at the scoreboard on the night, there were plenty of impressive numbers. There were 21 food vendors; 94 large raffle baskets were available for bid and more than 400 people came to enjoy themselves, and the food. “This is a fantastic event organized by both the North Royalton ....
Community partners up for prevention and collects unused medications
In support of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s national medication take back initiative, members of the community partnered up to help dispose of unwanted, unused, and expired medications, keeping them from falling into the wrong hands or harming the environment. This initiative addresses a vital public safety and health issue. Dedicated students in the high school club STAND (Students Together Against Negative Decisions), members from CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), volunteers from PHNR (Partnership for a Healthy North Royalton), and law enforcement joined together and ....
Drug Take Back Day Oct. 28 - Dispose of unused and unwanted meds at two locations
News media report that the growing drug epidemic and drug overdose deaths are reaching dangerous levels. These messages focus on this growing problem, as addiction often starts at home, in your own medicine cabinet. Many medicine cabinets contain unused, unwanted or expired prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs. If not disposed of, they may fall into the wrong hands and run the risk of accidental overdose and addiction. The Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., at two locations: Timber Ridge Plaza, 9199 Sprague Road and Giant Eagle Plaza, 6000 Royalton Road (Ro ....
