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Jessica Fenos is winner of Ward 1 City Council Race

After a month-long wait, the winner of the Ward 1 City Council Race has finally been determined. Jessica Fenos, 40, has been named as the next Council Representative of Ward 1. The official tally showed that she beat 20-year-old Anton Krieger by two votes. The unofficial count released by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on the November 5 elections showed Fenos at 617 and Krieger at 615. At that point, the Board processes the initial votes and adds provisional ballots and other mail-in ballots, which then become the official count. At that point, the Ward 1 race showed Fenos with 6 ....

Dec 20, 2019

School District faces possible financial hit

The North Royalton School District recently learned that they may be facing a possible financial hit, compliments of the state legislature. The state’s biennium budget, which was adopted earlier this year, included a change in it’s EdChoice scholarship program that has added the North Royalton District, as well as other well-to-do districts in their program. The EdChoice Scholarship program offers scholarship to parents of students in underperforming public schools and for low income students. The program was established in 2005. According to the Ohio Department of Education, “the ....

Dec 20, 2019

Plastic Bag Ban extended to July 2020

North Royalton City Council introduced legislation at its December 3 meeting that would negate the plastic bag ban that was adopted by Cuyahoga County in May. If passed, North Royalton would join other cities in the county, including Brooklyn. The city of North Olmsted also recently introduced legislation. The legislation, introduced by Mayor Bob Stefanik, states the following: “No retail establishment shall offer customers disposable plastic bags unless: (a) it provides a disposable plastic bag collection bin that is visible, easily accessible to the customer, and clearly marked tha ....

Dec 20, 2019

North Royalton Athletes “Stuff the Bus” for Coats for Kids

The North Royalton High School football team held the 10th Annual Coats for Kids Stuff the Bus event on Saturday, November 23, from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. North Royalton residents, friends and neighbors brought new or like-new winter coats and cash donations to the North Royalton Board of Education parking lot at 6579 Royalton Road. The players carried on the decade-long tradition of “stuffing” a North Royalton school bus with coats which will be transferred to Coats for Kids and redistributed to children in need in northeast Ohio. Football players and their parents were on hand to accept th ....

Dec 3, 2019

St. Albert the Great building on 60 years of faith for a new generation

The Catholic feast of St. Albert the Great, patron of the parish was November 15. Saint Albert the Great parish celebrated this Feast Day as a Solemnity on Saturday and Sunday, November 16 and 17. This year’s celebration is special due to the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the parish. To celebrate this landmark anniversary year, the annual renewal of Ministers took place at all of the weekend Masses. In addition, the parishioners received a pamphlet that highlighted the time, talent and treasure that is St. Albert the Great Parish over the last sixty years and Building Faith for a New G ....

Dec 3, 2019

City Parks and Recreation Departments moves in to new property

The North Royalton Parks and Recreation Department is in the process of moving into a new facility, purchased this year by the city. They will be moving into the previously-owned Cuyahoga County property, which sits adjacent to the York Road ball fields, which will not only give them more room, but will also serve as equipment storage. “We’ll start moving in a little at a time,” said Mayor Bob Stefanik. The York Road property previously belonged to the Cuyahoga County Engineer’s Office. The road and bridge maintenance facility property, located at 4875 York Road and is zoned (PF) P ....

Dec 3, 2019

Former Rite Aid property will be Chase Bank

The Rite Aid property, which is located at the corner of Royalton Road and State Road will be seeing some changes. The property will ultimately be changed from a retail store to a bank. Rite Aid vacated the property when they closed down that store’s location earlier this year. Rite Aid was built in 1997 on the 1.37 acre parcel. The existing 11,316 square foot building will be demolished and a new building housing Chase Bank will be constructed next year. The Architects Partnership, LTD addressed the North Royalton Planning Commission on October 2 on behalf of JP Morgan Chase Bank, and ....

Dec 3, 2019

Royal Redeemer Care and Share continues 30 years of Thanksgiving Dinner and fellowship

Care and Share at Royal Redeemer Lutheran Church had humble beginnings back in 1989. A group of volunteers served 100 Thanksgiving dinners. Fast forward to Thanksgiving Day 2019, 1,600 Thanksgiving dinners, 400-500 served inside the church and 1,200 more dinners delivered to shut-ins or given to individuals who wanted to enjoy their dinners at home. Can you imagine cooking 108 turkey breasts and fourteen 20-pound turkeys for those who wanted dark meat? That amounts to 900 pounds of meat. Add to that mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans and stuffing! We haven’t even gotten to t ....

Dec 3, 2019

Close Ward 1 Council race to be recounted

On November 26, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections reported that an automatic recount of the November 5 election would take place on six different races in Cuyahoga County. The Ward 1 Council race was among the others, that included the Council at Large for the city of Brecksville and Rocky River, Council seats in the villages of Valley View and Walton Hills and a Board of Education member in the Brooklyn City School District. By law, if the difference between votes is one half of one percent, an automatic recount then takes place. Since the Ward 1 City Council race is so close at this ....

Dec 3, 2019

Rain could not dampen the excitement for Christmas parade, arrival of Santa and Lighting of City Green

It takes many helping hands to make the magic happen at Christmastime, and thankfully, there are numerous “elves” working hard to spread holiday cheer in North Royalton. Members of the North Royalton Holiday Lighting Committee, the Royalton Hills Lions Club and the City Administration once again helped the City Green come alive as part of the Holiday Lighting and Christmas Parade, a community tradition nearly 20 years in the making. The annual event, which always occurs the Sunday after Thanksgiving, took place Dec. 1 with an eager crowd enjoying festive floats, visits with Santa, a comm ....

Dec 3, 2019