By Susan Condon Love / Columnist

(Editor’s note: Westlake City Schools Superintendent Scott Goggin submitted this guest column in support of Issue 121, a single ballot issue consisting of both a 1.3-mill bond measure and a 0.8-mill permanent improvement levy. The 33-year bond issue will raise $33.6 million to build a new el…

Why us?

You could say that Liz Ferro runs for her life – literally – and is sharing her journey with girls who have traveled the same road.

When I first saw Sammy, his tongue and ears were hanging from his head; his tail too large for his body and his legs too short. He was standing in my dining room, my fiance, Mike, standing next to him, waiting to see what my reaction would be.

By Nicole Hennessy

By Ryan Kaczmarski

Time Out

Of the four seasons, summer is my favorite season hands down. To me, one of the best feelings in the world is sitting on my back patio when my skin is warm to the touch and there is a slight breeze to cool me off every so often. With summer brings a feeling of being carefree. In early May wh…

I always enjoy feedback on what I write. Usually it’s pretty positive, but negative is good, too. At least it proves someone is reading. While I (usually) don’t hide in someone’s trash can looking for scandal, I like to think that I occasionally entertain, inform or even move someone. Kind o…

Taking a page from our Insights section, I noticed a story coming about an April 21 Victorian tea event sponsored by the Bay Village Historical Society, and checked my reaction about halfway through.

A member of a family which has helped thousands of  people through the years with their family business and assistance to those in need could use a little deserved help from the public for a special project.

Guest columnist

I never realized it before, but my husband and I were bad parents.

When Rocky River school board Finance Committee Chairman Scott Swartz said recently that “the deficit might not be so bad at the end of 2013,” the single clap of thunder was that of operating levy opponents smacking their hands together.

Two first-class ladies who have helped thousands of people travel safely in the often confusing areas of health care and government are on the road to well-deserved retirements this week.

Back in the olden days when cameras used film and you had to carefully unload exposed film in a darkroom, I worked for a school picture company. I always thought it was pretty cool that I was helping to create a memory, complete with missing teeth, braces or pink hair, that a particular stud…

Officials at the North Olmsted branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library system are inviting people to open the pages on the wide variety of  services available from the nationally ranked system.

We all like to complain.

By Nicole Hennessy

If a five-sided object is a pentagon, and an eight-sided object is a octagon, what do you call an object with at least 56 sides?

For those who live in North Olmsted, the book on one of its residents, beloved to many other people,  has reached its final chapter.

By Ryan Kaczmarski

By Ryan Kaczmarski

By Ryan Kaczmarski

Are you sick of the players versus owners (millionaires vs. billionaires) scenarios that was the National Football League lockout? How about “tattoo-gate” down in Columbus, or everything about the University of Miami (Florida) scandal? Did the USC Trojan football team make more money than th…

By Art Thomas

By Thea Steinmetz