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Wickliffe Forever Foundation is bringing a new event to the city. The nonprofit organization will present "Rock the Mansion 2018" from 6 to 11 p.m. July 14.The event, sponsored by Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council and the Lake County Visitors Bureau, will be at Coulby Park,

The National Park Service has announced the return of the annual Civil War encampment weekend at James A. Garfield National Historic Site.It will take place July 20-22 and will be the event's ninth consecutive year, according to a news release.

A garage fire briefly closed a portion of Reynolds Road in Mentor on July 10. The Mentor Fire Department received a call of a fire in a detached garage behind a home at 6553 Reynolds Road at 11:54 a.m. No one was injured in the fire. The department is still determining a cause of the fire, but it is believed to have started in a car that was being worked on in the garage.

The Heritage Club of Northeast Ohio will host its next meeting at 7 p.m., July 12, at the Holiday Inn, 7701 Reynolds Road in Mentor, in the Tyler Room. The featured speaker will be Steve Salvi, founder of the nonprofit group Ohio Jobs and Justice PAC. Salvi will talk about Illegal Immigration and U.

Dominic Guiseppe Yascone, 37, and Jessica Irene Geraci, 28, of 5616 Walnut St., Mentor-on-the-LakeJoseph Paul Hirtz, 24, 6364 Clearair Drive, Mentor and Meghan Kaleen Cain, 23, of 10200 Alger Trail, TwinsburgCaleb John Siegel, 28, of 38401 Mentor Ave., Willoughby and Alyson Marie Houdek, 27, of 9449 Whalers Cove, MentorMichael John Liszkowski, 31, and Vicki Lynn Easter, 54, of 38326 Laura Drive, EastlakeZachary Daniel Kordeleski, 25, and Caitlin Rose Brooks, 24, 7084 Culver Blvd.

Joe Crusse gained a new perspective about historic tax credits after hearing a presentation organized by Heritage Ohio on July 9.Although Crusse said initially he never wanted to be a part of the National Register of Historic Places, now he is considering the idea.

Wellspring Fields' Level 2 medical marijuana growing facility in Ravenna recently became the first medical marijuana growing facility in Ohio to receive the required state licensing to start growing. Buckeye Relief's facility currently

The design details are still being worked out, but Giant Eagle has the go-ahead to continue with plans in the Mentor City Market development.The city Planning Commission recently approved Curbside Express grocery pickup at

The Lake County Sheriff's Office said women are not being targeted by sex traffickers at the Giant Eagle on Mentor Avenue in Painesville Township, contrary to claims being made in recent social media postings.In a Facebook post of its own on July 6, the Sheriff's Office said it needed to respond to claims that have been alarming area residents.

Public safety officials in Mentor responded to a home on Meadowbrook Drive on July 9 where a boy was found facedown in a swimming pool, the city reports.According to a news release from Mentor Community Relations Manager Ante Logarusic, a call came it at 2:06 p.m. about a 2 1/2-year-old boy being found in the pool at his grandmother's home.