News Archive - Page 112 of 132

School District holds special meeting to discuss future of bond issue

Voters within the North Royalton City School District may see the return of a bond issue on the May 2 ballot. In a special meeting held Jan. 4 at North Royalton High School, more than 200 people – including teachers, parents with and without children in the district, school employees, retirees and older adults, and civic leaders – gathered in the main cafeteria to hear district representatives share available options following the failed Nov. 8 bond issue that called for the construction of one centralized elementary school, and renovations to the middle school and high school including t ....

Jan 10, 2017

Ward 5 Councilman resigns, creates vacancy

Ward 5 Councilman Steve Muller announced his resignation at the December 20 City Council Meeting. Muller said that he was moving out of the city because he was recently married and moving closer to his wife’s job. The position was officially vacated on January 1, 2017. City Council is now looking for a replacement of the Ward 5 position, which is in effect until the end of this year. Muller was in the middle of his third term. The last time City Council had to make an appointment was in 2013, to fill the term of Ward 3 Councilman Don Willey, who passed away in office. Dan Langshaw was th ....

Jan 10, 2017

Look for increase in your sewer bill

This year, residents will again see an increase in their sewer bills. This is the final increase in the city’s rate schedule, that was adopted in 2012. The new rate goes from $81.45 to $84.71, starting this year. The sewer rate schedule was based on results from a $15,000 sewer rate study done by wastewater consultant, Montgomery Watson Harza. At that time, the rate was $52.52 per 1,000 cubic feet of water (MCF) It was agreed at that time to form the new sanitary sewer rates, per MCF, to be $67.67 for 2012, $73.41 in 2013, $75.30 in 2014, $78.32 in 2015, $81.45 in 2016 and $84.71 in 2017. T ....

Jan 10, 2017

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 ....

Jan 10, 2017

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 ....

Jan 5, 2017

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 ....

Dec 20, 2016

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 ....

Dec 20, 2016

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 ....

Dec 20, 2016

Burger King closed for repairs due to fire

On Monday, December 12, a call came in to the North Royalton Fire Department at about 8:30 p.m. from a person driving by the Burger King, located at 5702 Royalton Road. The caller said that heavy smoke was coming from the smoke stack for the grease trap. There were flames in the hood that could not be put out with an extinguisher. Everyone was immediately evacuated. Mutual aid was given by Broadview Heights, who responded with a ladder, as well as Hinckley, Strongsville and Parma. CEI and Columbia Gas also responded. According to Fire Chief Bob Chegan, there was a pretty significant fire, th ....

Dec 20, 2016

Young entrepreneur’s invention to be featured on ABC sitcom Black-ish Wed., Dec. 14

As CMO of the retailer Bear On The Chair, Symonne Harrison helps oversee everything from updating social media to reviewing product design to monitoring sales data. She’s just taken over the company’s Instagram account and will participate in a Meet-and-Greet event Dec. 18 at Learning Express at SouthPark Mall, where the Bear On The Chair product is sold.

If that all doesn’t keep her on her toes enough, the company also recently got a call from ABC Productions requesting their product appear in an episode of the hit sitcom Black-ish, starring Anthony Anderson and ....

Dec 13, 2016