After months of being closed, the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center in Bay Village has begun offering guided tours through its many animal exhibits. Visitors will get a chance to see how the organization cares for the animals, including bald eagles, turtles and snakes. Up to six people w…

The setup in Sam Winterberger’s front yard is relatively simple, but the execution has become highly detailed.

Work on a new $170,500 pavilion in Rocky River Park on Beach Cliff Boulevard is expected to wrap up by the end of the month. Construction crews are installing the last decorative elements and landscaping crews are re-seeding the grass, Recreation Director Bob Holub said last week.

Rocky River school district officials still have a lot to figure out as they debate whether to have online or in-person learning for the fall semester, which begins Aug. 31. The debate includes fall sports.

Student athletes took to the streets of Bay Village last week, protesting the cancellation of sports within the district in response to COVID-19 concerns. Their activism resulted in a rethinking of the ruling.

The Bay Village City School District will see a new face in its administration as the fall semester begins.

The Avon Lake Police Department is investigating Joceyln Wright, a former Lorain County caregiver, after disturbing photographs and videos of elderly patients were discovered on her phone.

With the calm sound of water washing over rocks in Porter Creek and the wind rustling the lush canopy, it can be easy to hit sensory overload in Bay Village’s Huntington Reservation.

If you are looking for some sort of silver lining, something, anything positive to come out of the coronavirus pandemic, the city of Westlake has just the thing.

At the beginning of summer Rocky River resident Emily Hausman noticed a new family had moved in behind her house on Hilliard Boulevard. Only this family was a small herd of deer with a newborn fawn.

High school can be stressful, particularly for students with special needs.

How to bait a hook. How to cast a line into the water. How to know when you’re getting a bite and how to reel your line back to shore. These are just a few of the fishing basics learned by youngsters under 15, courtesy of the city recreation department’s Fishing with Friends.

After months of being closed, the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center in Bay Village has begun offering guided tours through its many animal exhibits. Visitors will get a chance to see how the organization cares for the animals, including bald eagles, turtles and snakes. Up to six people w…

Westshore seniors weren’t just feeling like a million bucks, they were feeling like a pot of gold! The Rocky River Senior Center hosted an Irish celebration Friday to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day after the pandemic postponed it in March. About 100 senior citizens listened to music by The New …

Curbside service has become a popular offering among restaurants because of the pandemic. Now seniors on the Westshore have one specifically for them with the help of O’Neill Healthcare’s “Curbside Lunch and Learn” event.

It’s been almost a year since kayakers noticed blue paint oozing down the cliffside of the Rocky River. Recently, contractor Oscar Serratos-Lozano, 42, pleaded no contest and was found guilty of illegally dumping blue paint into Lake Erie while refinishing a pool on Frazier Drive. He was fin…

When Bay Village senior Emma Spirollari was in middle school, one of her classmates asked if her parents, Albanian immigrants, were terrorists. It’s moments like this that she and Bay Village school district officials are working to stamp out through community awareness campaigns.

Gus Godinez sounded happy and enthusiastic even though he had just completed his shift as a respiratory therapist at University Hospitals and spent nearly an hour driving home.

These days, Stop 65 of the Lake Shore Electric Railway at the intersection of Electric Boulevard and Lake Road probably is best known as the location of a bright orange passenger car once used by the long-defunct railway system.

The striking bright neon graffiti mural honoring Bay High School’s Class of 2020 has become a new attraction in Bay Village. With popular video game characters like Mario and Donkey Kong and a row of five black lights illuminating the painting at night, it’s not hard to see why.

Next month marks the 100th anniversary celebrating the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. While the event holds national significance, Lakewood officials plan on celebrating it by honoring a local hero who played a big role in its success.

Becoming principal at Gilles-Sweet Elementary School is a natural progression for Matt Krivak.

The Senior and Community Services Department is bringing back its Curbside Food Pickup program beginning Thursday and continuing on the last Thursday of every month at least through September.