Willoughby | featured news

A week before school resumes for Riverside students, about 40 teachers and principals voluntarily participated in a four-day, world-renown professional development workshop.Thanks to a $20,000 grant from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, the district was able to host the

A man wanted by the U.S. Marshal's Violent Fugitive Task Force was arrested Aug. 15 at a Willoughby hotel. The marshals along with the Ohio Adult Parole Agency were looking for 37-year-old John Shear, whose last known address was near the 2100 block of W. 81st Street in Cleveland. Sheer was wanted for a parole violation.

Rabbit Run Theater in Madison has one more weekend left for you to catch "Evita." Winner of seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, "Evita" features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics and book by Tim Rice. "Evita" runs through Aug. 18. All performances are at 7:30 p.m. at the Ohio Historic Landmark barn theatre at 5648 West Chapel Road in Madison.

Pickles take the stage on Aug. 21 when Judi Strauss leads a two-hour class in the kitchen at Wildwood Cultural Center, 7645 Little Mountain Road, Mentor.The class will cover everything from old-fashioned crock pickles to pickled peaches. Learn what you need to know to make pickles from home and as gifts.

The Lake Metroparks Volunteer Department has moved from Lakefront Lodge in Willowick to the Concord Woods Administrative Offices located at 11211 Spear Road in Concord Township.All contact information for the Volunteer Office will remain the same: 440-585-3041, ext. 6418, and

A Mentor-on-the-Lake woman and Mentor man faced a judge in Mentor Municipal Court in connection to an Aug. 13 incident, court records there show. Taylor D. Fox, 23, of 6006 Goldenrod Road, and William R. McNeely, 24, of 4764 Corduroy Road, were both arraigned Aug. 14 for felony offenses, court files confirm.

The story of "Evita" is intense, to say the least. Telling the whole story through song without a scrap of dialogue? Well, that's just challenging.Rabbit Run Theater nails the song and dance of it all with its current production, but if you don't know the details of the story, you may want to brush up on the specifics before taking your seat.

A tenant that seeks to fill the former hhgregg spot in Mentor won't have to travel far.The owner of Erie Commons-Great Lakes Plaza is requesting to re-image the storefront at

Painesville City Manager Monica Irelan attended a recent Painesville Township trustee work session to provide answers to some of the recent electric rate concerns, but the presentation sparked additional questions."Painesville Township residents have been customers of Painesville Electric for more than 40 years," according to Irelan's Aug.

Corn trends have changed over the years, says farmer Larry Klco, whose eastern Lake County-based Rainbow Farms takes bushels upon bushels of corn to area farmers markets."When I was young, Silver Queen was the corn everyone wanted," he recalled. "But corn these days is so much better. Our Super Sweet and Triple Sweet varieties both have a tremendous capacity for holding sugars.