The Kinney Bros helping the Bears win on the football field.

In High School football, it's not unusual to have a father and son coaching and playing for the same team.  The North Royalton Bears have something a bit unusual this season familywise.  The Kinney Brothers.  Coach Joe Kinney is on the sidelines and junior Anthony Kinney is playing in both the offensive and defensive backfields.
Joe Kinney graduated from North Royalton High School back in 2025.  He threw for over 4,000 yards in his three years on the varsity and completed 47 touchdown passes.  This past off season, head coach Judd Lutz named Joe Kinney as an ....

Oct 14, 2026

Fall Ushers in with Apple Picking Time

It's the season when trees heavy with crisp, ripe apples tempt our tastebuds.  When the apple harvest comes in you know that fall has arrived and a stop at Royalton Farms on State Road can supply you with 15 varieties suitable for everything for pie making, apple sauce, or just good eating. A visit last week found Bruce Grayson hard at work tuning up equipment while his salesladies, sisters Bree and Kylei Kosek, waited on customers. Grayson said his father, Dave, founded the farm in the mid-1960's but recalled when he was little, he spent summers playing on the property by the remains of a ....

Oct 14, 2026

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 ....

Sep 1, 2026

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 ....

Sep 1, 2026

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 ....

Sep 1, 2026