Harding Middle School to Retire Flag, Honor Veterans Thursday

Annual ceremony to take place at 8 a.m.

Lakewood Considers $300,000 for ‘Lakefront Improvement’ Plan

City council will first decide whether to spend $25,000 on a design study.

The city of Lakewood is looking to spend $300,000 on “lakefront improvements” at Lakewood Park. But don’t break out your swimming trunks or your fishing pole just yet. The plans aren’t likely to include a public beach or a pier. City council will first decide whether to spend $25,000 on a design study to find out how to get the most out of $300,000. City officials said they’d like to focus on improving the western edge of the waterfront at Lakewood Park. But other details of the proposal may have to wait for the results of a design study. In 2010, city council adopted the Lakewood Park System Plan to outline a strategy of “continuous and coordinated improvement to our parks and open space.” “One of these goals is to enhance the …

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Local Voices from the Lakewood Community

Check out a selection of the blogger contributions from community members, including businesses, hospitals and people just like you.

All members of the community are invited to "share what they know" and become a Local Voice, aka blogger, on Lakewood Patch. Click through the links below to learn about what people in your community have to say about current events, businesses, family and living. • Do you let your children or pets drink from the hose on those hot and sunny days? Mom blogger Elana West questioned the safety of it and shared her research with us. • The Lakewood Public Library is having a party and you're invited. Want to know what's playing at the Cleveland PlayHouse this season? Click here.  • A local member of World Exchange is looking for families to host French students this summer. Blogger Jill Quinn, whose family has hosted several foreign exchange …

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Angelo’s Plays Hero Role; New Grocery Stores; and Legal Drama in Clifton Park: Week in Review

Here’s a highlight of the top stories from around Lakewood during the past week.

Did you miss anything around town during the past week? Here’s your opportunity to get caught up.  Angelo's Raises $35,000 for Freed Kidnapping Victims: On Thursday, the Lakewood pizza shop donated all of the proceeds from pizza sales to Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. City May Demolish Former Boarding House on Grace Avenue: After buying the property last year, city officials say the selling the home has been a bit of a challenge. Indian, Nepalese Grocery Store Opens on Madison Avenue: Everest Grocery Store opens at 14021 Madison Avenue. With the city’s Asian population continuing to grow, the customer base is already here. Firefighters Battle Blaze at Clifton Boulevard Apartment Building: The building was evacuated, but no…

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City May Demolish Former Boarding House on Grace Avenue

After buying the property last year, city officials say the selling the home has been a bit of a challenge.

After buying a former "burdensome" boarding house on Grace Avenue last year, the city may consider demolishing it. That news comes after the city has been unable to sell the home. City officials recently told Lakewood Patch that the property, as an empty lot, may be offered to neighbors. According to LoveLakewood.com, a potential buyer approached the city last year with a plan to turn the home into a halfway house, but that proposal was turned down. The city recent dropped its asking price to $43,000, but the rehab could cost more than $100,000. The city’s building and housing director Dru Siley said that the high cost of fixing up the home makes it “very unattractive to potential investors,” according to LoveLakewood, adding doubt that …

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Brandon Scullion

8:04 am on Thursday, May 23, 2013

This sort of project is a dream of mine. At this point I still have to focus on smaller scale home purchases but if I had the means this home would be fully restored. Perhaps if they sold it for a dollar I could do it but that of course is not in the cards.   more ›

Lakewood City Council Eyes Investments in Basketball Courts

Among them are increased supervision, a drinking fountain, better access and improved community policing.

After the new basketball court was installed at Lakewood Park last year, city council is now considering a game-plan that includes a few upgrades. Among them are increased supervision, better access and improved community policing. Tom Bullock and Monique Smith penned a letter to fellow council members, encouraging a discussion on outdoor basketball in Lakewood. “After a long winter spring is finally here, and with it, a significant increase in residents and visitor using our parks, including a popular new facility, the recently installed basketball courts near the skate park at Lakewood Park,” said Bullock and Smith. “I think this is a worthwhile investment,” Bullock told council last Monday. “I think it’s important to prioritize this.” …

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Steve

5:56 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

You are so right Bill. But on the other hand we do pay for Animal Control. Count how many times you drive past a person with a dog off leash, don't have a baggie in their hand for clean-up, off leash in the public parks. These are also laws, but never seem to get enforced. And where exactly did the money go that was left to the animal shelter by a Womans estate??? No one has a clue, even the …   more ›

Clifton Park Legal Dispute Intensifies With Clifton Club

Judge rules that the lawsuit should include all 224 reisdents in the Clifton Park neighborhood, since the dispute centers around who has rights to the land.

A legal dispute between Clifton Park residetns and the Clifton Club over the rights to the land — more specifically, the beach — just got a lot more complicated.  Last week, a Cuyahoga County judge decided that the lawsuit — filed last year by four residents — should include all 224 homeowners, since the dispute centers around who has rights to the property. The complainants argue that that club’s membership has crowded the once-quiet lakefront beach at the mouth of the Rocky River.  Clifton Park residents also have rights to the beach. Dennis Butler, a Clifton Park resident who’s siding with the four original complainants, said the lawsuit seeks to clear up who owns the land trust. From there, he said, beach access won’t be an issue. “It’…

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Barrio, PizzaBOGO Open; McKinley Headed to Auction; and School Levy OK'd

Here’s a highlight of the top stories from around Lakewood during the past week.

Did you miss anything around town during the past week? Here’s your opportunity to get caught up.   Lakewood Voters Overwhelmingly Approve School Levy: It was a night of good news for a school district that saw much of its 6.9-mill levy — passed in 2009 — “wiped out” by sweeping cuts to education from the state of Ohio. $400,000 in Upgrades Eyed for Madison Park: Public meeting slated to discuss the proposal, which includes an overhaul to the skatehouse. Angelo's Pizza Hosting Fundraiser for Freed Kidnapping Victims: One of the first meals Amanda Berry wanted after nearly 10 years in captivity was a pizza from Angelo's Pizza in Lakewood. McKinley Elementary School Headed to Auction: The district first offered the property to charter …

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