Heights Now

The city of Cleveland Heights has decided to hire on a full-time law director among the city’s staff.

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Kara Hamley O’Donnell, Historic preservation planner in the Cleveland Heights Department of Planning and development, has been working hard with with Cleveland Heights Historical Society and the Cleveland Heights Lee Rd library, to plan different historic tours and lectures.

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The Cedar Taylor Development Association plans to finish up their study this April on streetscape improvements in the Cedar Taylor neighborhood in Cleveland Heights and University Heights.

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Reaching Heights, a 25-year-old citizen support organization for the Cleveland Heights-University Heights public schools, has just named its new executive director, Krista Hawthorne.

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Cleveland Heights has been chosen as the pilot city for Cuyahoga County’s emergency notification system, Ready Notify. City Manager,Tanisha Briley, is hopeful that the system will improve awareness of urgent matters in Cleveland Heights.

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The Heights High Barbershoppers took home first place in the nation and second place internationally in their division at the International Youth Chorus Barbershop Festival in Long Beach, California.

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On Saturday, February 22,  the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes paired up with the Rotary Club of Shaker Heights to hold their annual event, “Pancake breakfast with the birds.”

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On Saturday, February 8, storytellers from Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights came together at the Breen Performing Arts Center at St. Ignatius High School to share ideas on the art of storytelling with the Cleveland community. The Late Winter Storytelling Festival was put on by Beacon Street Performing Arts in Ministry, which is directed by [...]

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Cleveland Heights kicked off the new year by launching an online tool that allows the public to view past and current financial records.

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Cleveland Heights City Council passed a resolution at its December 16 meeting to honor Officer Jason West who was killed in the line of duty in 2007 by renaming part of Cedar Road to Jason West Road.

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