Harvest Fest canceled, will be part of Halloween Madness
Mayor Larry Antoskiewicz recently announced that the annual Harvest Festival that was scheduled for Sunday, September 18, has been canceled. He added that the Halloween Madness event, scheduled for Saturday, October 22, will not only go on, but be enhanced with some of the events that would have been included with the Harvest Fest. The Harvest Fest has taken place for many years, sponsored by the Holiday Lighting Committee. The event started as a fund-raiser to help pay for the holiday lights on the City Green. With Covid, the event had not taken place for a couple of years, just as other cit ....
November election will have GOP write-in candidate
Although Republican voters in North Royalton did not have a candidate for an Ohio House Representative to vote for in the August 2 primary, they will have an opportunity to elect a Republican candidate come November 8. The only catch is that they will have to remember the name of the candidate, write it in and fill in the little oval on the left. North Royalton resident and attorney Nicholas E. Phillips (Nick Phillips) has thrown his hat in the ring for the position of Ohio House Representative. Phillips submitted his declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate with the Cuyahoga County B ....
School Board News
The August meeting of the North Royalton Board of Education took place on Monday, August 15. During the June 29 meeting, the minutes were questioned by Board Member Jeremiah Sawyer, who stated that the conclusion regarding discussion on parental/children’s rights at that meeting, was that the District’s lawyer was going to address the Board with policy options. “All he did, was come in and defend his recommendation,” said Sawyer. Board President John Kelly stated that, “He didn’t have any other options to present.” School Superintendent Mike Laub said that “I was under the imp ....
Outstanding community support for 4-H Jr. Fair Livestock Auction 2022
Results in record-setting proceeds for 4-H Youth and Scholarship Fund Local community businesses and individuals smashed auction records on Saturday night, August 13, at the annual 4-H Jr. Fair Livestock Auction at the 125th Cuyahoga County Fair, doubling the previous year proceeds, for a total of $61,680. The auction, sponsored by Animal Science Committee and the Cuyahoga County 4-H, brings to sale 4-H youth projects and items to benefit the Bruce Kucharski Sr. Scholarship Fund. Community support for the 4-H auction has grown exponentially. “In 2005, the sale rai ....
Residents see higher utility bills and react
North Royalton residents who have recently received their electric bills may have noticed that their bills seem rather high. They may have thought that the bill was high due to the hot weather experienced this summer. They may be only half correct. Those residents who are NOPEC customers may want to check the “charges from NOPEC” in the middle right section of the first page of the bill. There, it will show the billing period, the basic charge, which is broken down to the number of killowatt hours (KWH) x the NOPEC rate. For the August bill, that rate increased to 0.120000. That number ha ....