North Royalton Jail to close

After thirty years, the North Royalton Jail will be closing. Mayor Larry Antoskiewicz recently released a press release, saying that it will close within sixty days. The North Royalton Jail is part of the North Royalton Police Department, located at the corner of Bennett and Royalton Roads. North Royalton built the facility in the early 1990’s. Originally, the Police Department was housed at the old City Hall. The Jail houses up to 18 full-time male and female prisoners and serves about nineteen communities who do not have access to their own jail. According to Antoskiewicz, it employed se ....

Plastic bag ban deadline may be pushed forward

If you have gone shopping lately, you might have noticed that the plastic shopping bags are back. Although the deadline for retailers was July 1, 2020, some stores had already been shying away from the plastic. With the COVID-19 pandemic, some stores went back to supplying the plastic bags, as there were questions regarding the possibility of spreading the virus through the use of personal carrier bags. Some stores have adopted guidelines where customers may bring in reusable bags, but must bag their own groceries and take them. The counters are then sanitized after each of these customers re ....

Council makes budget adjustments due to Coronavirus

On May 5, the North Royalton City Council held a special Finance Committee meeting to discuss budget adjustments with Mayor Larry Antoskiewicz. These adjustments were necessary due to the financial impact from COVID-19. On the same day, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced changes to the state budget to the tune of over $750,000,000. “We have been working on this for a few weeks, trying to get figures and estimates,” said Antoskiewicz. He said he also has had discussions with local, state and federal representatives. They are telling us that we are going to get some money, but it would onl ....

North Royalton High School Senior’s song resonates with many

Covid-19 has robbed graduating seniors of many things, but it’s the sense of closure and the absence of a proper good-bye that hurts the most. Seniors didn’t know it at the time, but March 12 was the last day they would ever walk the hallways of North Royalton High School together, and akin to mourners at a funeral, seniors here and everywhere are grieving a sudden and heavy loss. North Royalton High School Senior Becca Pavelich channeled that loss into writing a beautiful ode dedicated to the Class of 2020. Aptly called, “More Time,” Pavelich performed her song and shared it on YouTu ....

Teachers are engaging in virtual opportunities for students

‘We’ve never been so compassionately connected’ Educators have always worked to inspire others and sometimes, if they’re part of a dedicated team and community network, they get inspired themselves. “I have observed people who are in their own ways dealing with what has changed for them personally, and I’ve seen them be the hands and feet of Jesus for someone else, to a point where I’m absolutely inspired,” said Heidi Malone, who serves as principal at Royal Redeemer Lutheran School. “I think God’s hand is in all of this. To see an extension of G ....

School district construction is progressing

At the April 13 School Board meeting, Assistant Superintendent Jim Presot presented an update on the progress of the construction at the various district facilities. School Superintendent Gurka noted that “construction at both our elementary site and our high school site are continuing. School construction has been deemed an essential business. Hammond Construction has worked diligently with our contractors to put precautions in place of social distancing, hand washing stations, sanitizing stations and we continue to move forward with both our projects.” Presot noted that construction con ....

Take the challenge and solve the Small Business Word Search

In these challenging times, it is more and more important to support

our local businesses that are struggling to stay afloat. Local businesses

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time of need. We’ve put together a fun Small Business Word Search.

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Rite Aid building razed to make room for Chase Bank

The building that previously housed Rite Aid has now been demolished and the beginning of construction of something new can be seen. The Rite Aid property, which is located at the corner of Royalton Road and State Road is where this has been taking place, and will be changing from a retail store to the home of a bank. Rite Aid vacated the property when they closed down that store’s location last year. Rite Aid was built in 1997 on the 1.37 acre parcel. The existing 11,316 square foot building was demolished recently and a new building housing Chase Bank is being constructed. The Archite ....

North Royalton City Schools dropped from EdChoice voucher program

The North Royalton School District recently learned that they will be taken off the list of Ohio school districts that were mandated to participate in the state’s EdChoice Voucher Program. Last year, with the adoption of the state’s biennium budget, it included a change in its EdChoice scholarship program that has added the North Royalton District, as well as other well-to-do districts to their program. The EdChoice Scholarship program offers scholarship to parents of students in underperforming public schools and for low income students. The scholarship is used to attend private school ....

Schools closed for remainder of school year, no thanks to Covid-19

On Monday, April 20, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that Ohio school students will continue to go to school remotely through the end of the school year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The last day of school for North Royalton students is May 27. In a press release from the Governor, issued April 20, he stated that “we balanced many issues in arriving at this decision. In the end, I believe this is what is best to protect the health of our children, our teachers, and our administrators. While our buildings are closed, we know that students continue to learn in new and innovative ways. I ....