It’s turkey time, so you know what that means. Lots of leftovers, a dishwasher that runs 24/7 and the wayward slice of pumpkin pie you will find under your sofa during the hunt for Easter eggs.
Graduating from the Solon Citizens Police Academy comes with a perk - a three-hour ride-along with a Solon police officer. I was the lucky recipient of riding with two different officers for my ride-along on Nov. 18 due to the fact that my original officer got called away to serve a warrant.…
Freeloader vote pays off
“I, (insert name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States ...
It all began around age four, when my mom took me to the Center-Mayfield movie theater to see Walt Disney’s “Bambi.”
Friday, Nov. 11, “was the 51st Veterans Day that I have commemorated as an American military veteran. I have to confess that it hasn’t always been celebratory. It hasn’t always been easy.”
For the past 10 weeks, my Tuesday nights have been filled with a one-of-a-kind learning opportunity, a chance to do things I have never done before, meet people from many different backgrounds and learn about an organization that offers unparalleled policing service to the Solon community.
‘Thin blue line’ gets thinner
As we near the end of our Solon police education, the Citizens Police Academy Class No. 20 members had a chance to portray the role of an officer in a training scenario that resulted in most of us realizing we were not adequately prepared for any kind of police work.
Like breathing, or the beating of our heart, democracy has been a constant in our lives in so many ways. But now they are telling us the American experiment is circling the drain.
Please pick up after your pet
The voters have spoken. The election is over, and it is time to move forward. Whether your candidate won or lost, or you are happy are angry about issues, levies and bonds … look ahead not back. That is what makes our country great and helps sustain a thriving republic.
There is one sign in my yard, and that sign reads “Steve Demetriou for Ohio House.” It’s not that I don’t support other candidates, but I know Steve.
I was doing some grocery shopping rcently when I unsuspectingly walked smack dab into my worst nightmare: the Little Debbie snack cake display.
Police radar guns are kind of fun – for the operator of them anyway.
Cleveland sports fans are no stranger to loss and the excuses that go with them.
Missed it! I sure hate when that happens because it puts me in a position of catch-up, but so it was with National Newspaper Week Oct. 2 – 8.
Throughout the Solon Citizens Police Academy, I have had some revelations about myself.
There are 172 steps to the top of Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi. And on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, Robert Burgess couldn’t help but smile as he climbed every last one of them on his way to the press box.
I have had occasion lately to attend some Berkshire football games, and I continue to walk away impressed by the behavior of the students in attendance.
It’s October so you know what that means. Time for our “PR on the PR” and that stands for “Public Relations on the Pumpkin Roll.”
As a resident of Chagrin Falls, I have had my name spelled incorrectly in print and read information taken from Facebook pages in this publication. And while I have never countered such information publicly, when a writer who hasn’t attended a playground meeting in more than six months offer…
Coming up on Nov. 8, the Party of Trump (POT) is poised to recapture a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. The POT moniker fits the 147 House members who identify as Republicans and voted on Jan. 7, 2021, to overturn the undeniable results of the 2020 presidential election.
The Chagrin Documentary Film Festival begins next Wednesday. Are you ready? Wait, what film fest, you ask?
For Week Two of the Citizens Police Academy, my classmates and I learned about the police department’s work through some numbers.
I was so moved when I read Times Editor David Gustafson’s column in the Sept. 15 issue of the Times about Danny McLish, the special needs newspaper carrier he once employed.
I was talking to a friend recently about the emails we pass back and forth and the stream of consciousness “style” unto which we have fallen.
As a born and bred native Oklahoman, I like to pretend I know a thing or two about tornadoes.
The first day of the academy was informative and exciting and... wow.
Washington continues to deliver for the American people.
Before our new class of the Solon Citizens Police Academy begins on Tuesday, Sept. 6, I thought I would find out a little about the first “police personnel” that helped keep the peace in Solon, Ohio.
I am writing this letter in response to a guest column by Phil Paradise, Jr. entitled “Shame on the Democrats” in the Aug. 25 edition of this newspaper.
Tim Ryan, the presumably recalcitrant Democrat who is seeking to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate, has it butt backwards.
Having your heart broken isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
A couple ofweeks ago, I wrote a column about a 1969 movie called “The Manchurian Candidate,” in which mind control plays a major role in the life of its fictional character Raymond Shaw, a World War II POW who was “brain washed” into becoming a political assassin.
Depending on how many pages we publish each week, you’ll typically find somewhere in the neighborhood of 85,000 words in any given issue of the Chagrin Valley Times, Solon Times, or Geauga Times Courier.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has not admitted to any wrongdoing in connection with the First Energy bribery case that is going to trial in January. Two of the three defendants have already pleaded guilty.
Since taking my new position as a reporter with the Solon Times, I have had weekly interaction with the Solon Police Department.
School is now in session.
I believe in free speech. I believe in the right for someone to voice their opinion, even if completely off-base, inaccurate & quite frankly, stupid but listening to a recent Munson resident regurgitate the exact same talking points from the corporate media started to wear on me.
In 1961 Judge Robert Ford signed the statute to create the Geauga Park District.
Shame on the Republican Party, especially those in the House of Representatives from Speaker Kevin McCarthy on down, for its reckless, dangerous condemnation of the Justice Department and the FBI after the search for classified documents at former President Trump’s winter residence, Mar-a-Lago.
A Mississippi school teacher came under fire earlier earlier this year for having a “prayer board” on display in her classroom used to accept prayer requests from students.
Art really does imitate life.
We all have sleepless nights once in a while. It’s how we handle them that makes the difference and the folks here at Window Central World Headquarters are ready to assist.
Saying good-bye to a friend is never easy. In fact, it’s downright difficult.
Growing up in the 1960s, I was a pretty good competitive swimmer. My sister Vonnie was a very good competitive swimmer.
I want to pass on how wonderful Liberty Camp is in Geauga County. My nine-year-old granddaughter, Miriam, just finished the camp and I had the privilege of seeing it firsthand while dropping her off and then attending the final ceremony at the end of the week.
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