Happy Halloween
Halloween Home Decorating Contest and Trick or Treating City Council is again doing a Halloween Home Decoration Contest. To enter, send an email with your name, address, and telephone number to NOROcontest@gmail.com by Monday, October 25. Judging will take place on Saturday, October 30th. One winner will be crowned per Ward, and one Ward winner will be crowned as the Best in North Royalton on Sunday, October 31. The contest flyer is on page 4 of the October 7 Recorder, which can be foun ....
Discard old meds on Drug Take-Back Day Saturday
Saturday is Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This event allows residents to prevent unused and expired meds from ending up in the wrong hands and keep our environment clean by properly disposing of both prescription and over-the-counter medications. The event is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 23, with two convenient drop-off locations: Giant Eagle and the Timber Ridge Plaza. For those who can't make it or to properly dispose of your meds throughout the year, please remember that there is a convenient drop box located in the lobby of our Police Department at 14000 Bennett Road.
St. Albert’s parishioners take part in Service Day 2021
More than 2000 volunteers signed up for this year’s Parish Service Day, held on October 8-9, 2021. A variety of Blessings Bags for area nursing homes, hygiene bags for the Westside Catholic Center, St. Aloysius preschool, Cornerstone of Hope, layette bags for MetroHealth Friends of Mothers and Infants, and more were put together by over 1,200 volunteers. Several dozen other projects were completed. Some included preparing 310 fleece comfort blankets for the Christ Child Society “my stuff” bags for children in homeless shelters. More than 40 seniors registered to enjoy a morning of Bing ....
School Board News
The North Royalton Board of Education held their October meeting on Monday, October 11. The Board approved the Fiscal Year 2022 Five-Year Forecast. It then approved additions to the comprehensive continuous improvement plan grants for 2021-22: ARP IDEA Special Education, $225,578.46; ARP IDEA Early Childhood, $16,699.28. The Board approved the following 2021-22 fund appropriation adjustments: Permanent Improvement, from $2,907,250 to $3,392,250; 006 Food Service, from $898,900. to $1,717.648.63; 019 Other Local Grants, from $278,465.16 to $291,088.84; 516 IDEA, from $1,107,986.92 to $1,333,5 ....
Council approves Storefront Renovation Rebate Program
The North Royalton City Council unanimously approved the City’s 2021-22 Storefront Renovation Rebate Program at their latest meeting. The program is designed to assist some business owners in the city with the improvement of the facades of their storefronts or assist in correcting exterior code violations. The legislation states that “improvements to and redevelopment of the City of North Royalton’s stock of industrial, office, retail and commercial buildings is integral to the continued economic health of the City of North Royalton, Ohio, and its citizens; and the use of governmental r ....
