Use tactics to help keep your New Year’s resolutions
Lose weight. Quit smoking. Spend more time with friends and family. Cut back on spending. Many Americans ring in the New Year with a resolution to improve some aspect of themselves. Statistically, more than half of the United States population makes a resolution each year, but the percentage of Americans who actually make good on their resolutions is too bleak to even report. So what are some tactics for keeping your New Year’s resolution so that by midway through 2017 your gym shoes aren’t collecting cobwebs in the garage or your credit card statement doesn’t continue to blindside you ....
Reward offered in gun shop robbery
North Royalton Police and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are working to solve a recent robbery at the Accurate Arms and Ammunition, located at 6834 Bunker Road. The theft took place at about 4.15 a.m. on Tuesday, December 27. Surveillance video shows the burglars smashing their way into the store with what is believed to be a sledgehammer. Seven rifles were taken from Accurate Arms, which is a federal firearms licensee, according to the ATF. They then fled in a stolen car. Less than a week later, on Monday, January 2, at about 4:14 a.m., police, who wer ....
Thoughts of Christmas: Giving is better than receiving
It’s been quite a year here at the Recorder. We celebrated our 75th anniversary of delivering the news to the residents of our wonderful city. Through our stories, we have documented the lives of our residents, and the progress our city and schools have made as our community grew and grew. We hope you have enjoyed reading about all the events that have transpired throughout the seven plus decades. Although our village has grown to a modern city of more than 30,000 residents, some things have not changed. In many ways, we are still a close-knit community, a place where people care about each ....
Recorder - What will the next 75 years bring?
We have looked into the past 75 years that the Royalton Recorder has been in existence. You have read about the changes in North Royalton from rural dairy and grain farmland to semi-rural growing community, to part of the larger housing area known as suburbia or even exurbia. The growth from rural area to “one-of-the-best-places-to-raise-your-kids” suburban area has brought with it all the challenges of street maintenance, sewer and water quality upgrades, and needed modernization and consistent improvements for our police and fire departments. The North Royalton schools have excellent rat ....
Bowlers take to the lanes for North Royalton High School
After years of requests by parents and students, North Royalton High School is fielding a Bowling Team for the first time. The team is competing in the National Conference of the Suburban League. For those of you who do not know, bowling teams are made up of separate teams of boys and girls. Each match is made up of teams bowling two individual ten-frame games (with five bowlers on a team) and three so-called baker games. A baker game has a line-up of five team members each bowling two frames out of the 10. (1-6, 2-7, 3-8, 4-9 and 5-10). This brings the team element into bowling. The winner ....