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Father's Day on the near horizon, and maybe it's time to consider a different style of celebration and a gift more creative than a necktie or T-shirt.If Dad is a polka aficionado, celebrate June 17 with a Slovenian-style meal and a polka Mass at SNPJ Farm,

Community reportThe public is invited to come and learn some helpful ways to keep their brain healthy and reduce the risk of cognitive problems at 7 p.m., June 28, at Perry Public Library, 3753 Main St. Ebony Elam, a Certified Nurse Practitioner with the Lake Health Center for Geriatric Psychiatry, will share information on this topic, which includes dementia, and answer questions from the audience.

A new - and entirely different - use is proposed at a longtime restaurant location in Mentor.The city Planning Commission on June 14 will consider a preliminary site plan and conditional-use permits for a Discount Tire store on the former Urban Roadhouse property,

Community reportThe Downtown Willoughby Car Cruise-In will be from 4 to 10 p.m., June 16 in Downtown Willoughby. More than 500 classic cars, trucks, hot rods and rat rods will be on hand, according to a news release. There will be door prizes, raffles, auctions and more. All proceeds benefit the community - primarily Toys for Tots, Willoughby Food Bank, and the Glen Sheffield/Kenneth F.

A decision regarding the use of the facility at 382 Blackbrook Road in Painesville Township was made June 12 at a contentious public hearing.

There is a new plan to redevelop Johnnycake Ridge Golf Course in Mentor into homes. It looks a lot like the old one.In 2016, city officials approved rezoning the property - 40-plus acres at

Caught popping ollies, sliding through 5-0 grinds and landing tall pop-shove-its in the 80-degree heat Mentor's Headlands neighborhood saw June 12, Mentor-on-the-Lake resident Dan McCurdy said it was all about the board."It's a passion," he said around noon, when the sun was at its apex and temperatures at their highest, with a healthy dose of humidity, to boot.

Laketran, along with public transportation systems nationwide, is participating in the 13th Annual National Dump the Pump Day June 14. With the need to improve regional air quality, coupled with fluctuating gas prices, the local Dump the Pump event will be held at Painesville's Veterans Park, alongside the

A 26-year-old Akron man who has been charged in the Eastlake crash that left a 17-year-old girl dead waived his rights to a preliminary hearing June 12.

This isn't Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."You've been warned.This, however, is easily the Fine Arts Association's most impressive production of the season.In this intense musical adaptation of the 1831 Victor Hugo novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," the Willoughby organization does use Disney songs.