Valley Vista Elementary School property is for sale
The North Royalton City School District is in the process of selling the remaining elementary school property that has been vacated after the opening of the new North Royalton Elementary School this past fall. Presently, the Valley Vista school property is up for sale. The district has decided to keep Royal View, but the Albion Elementary property will also be placed up for sale. The Valley Vista property is on Wallings Road, east of State Road; Royal View is located on Ridge Road, just north of Bennett Road; and the Albion Elementary property is located on Albion Road, just east of York Road ....
Council discusses EMS Levy replacement
The North Royalton City Council adopted legislation at its January 18 City Council meeting that is the first step in placing an EMS Levy on the May 3 ballot. Fire Chief Bob Chegan gave a presentation on the proposed replacement to Council at its January 18 Safety Committee meeting, which took place before the Council meeting that evening. The resolution was unanimously adopted that declares the necessity of replacement of the current 1.7 mill tax levy for EMS services. This is the first step of a two-step process that could place the measure on the May 3 ballot. A second piece of legislation ....
Izzy hits North Royalton with a punch
A winter snow storm, named Storm Izzy by The Weather Channel, hit North Royalton, starting at about 6 p.m. the night of Sunday, January 16, with continual snow and drifting through the night and into the morning of Monday, January 17. The storm closed schools and delayed rubbish removal. Izzy’s western edge hit the Greater Cleveland area, pulling moisture off Lake Erie and resulting in lake-effect snow that recorded up to 25 inches of snow in some northeast Ohio areas for the end of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. North Royalton fared slightly better, with reported snow depths r ....
Residents gather to lay wreaths on graves of Veterans
Morrill Worcester was a 12-year-old paper boy for the Bangor Daily News when he won a trip to Washington D.C. His first trip to our nation’s capital was one he would never forget, especially Arlington National Cemetery that made an indelible impression on him. These were the graves of veterans that made the peace and freedom we have in America possible. In 1992, when Morrill’s company, Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, Maine, had a surplus of fresh evergreen wreaths for the holidays, he remembered his experience at Arlington Cemetery. Worcester realized he had an opportunity to hono ....
New School Board holds first meeting of new year
The North Royalton Board of Education held their yearly organizational meeting on Thursday, January 6. The Board elected John Kelly as President of the 2022 School Board and Anne Reinkober as Vice President. The Board approved the following scheduled dates for the Work Sessions and Regular Board meetings: Regular Work Sessions, 6:30 p.m. January 6, February 10, March 10, April 7, May 5, June 9, July 8, August 11, September 8, October 6, November 17, December 8. Regular Meetings, 7 p.m. January 10, February 14, March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13, July 11, August 15, September 12, October ....
