What Were The Top Stories in Cleveland Heights in 2011?
Cleveland Heights Patch invites readers to suggest the biggest news stories from the past year
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Cleveland Heights has seen its share of big news in 2011.
Several new businesses have popped up like Big Dog Theater, SweetieFry, Luna and Myxx. And neighborhood favorites like Seitz-Agin have shuttered.
The Cleveland Heights High School football team had a historic season, undefeated for the first time, and secured a spot in the playoffs.
Cleveland Heights residents followed the news about the proposed development of the former Oakwood Country Club in South Euclid, wondering what the fate of the Cleveland Heights side would be.
And no one could forget the aftermath of the Coventry Street Arts Fair, which prompted Cleveland Heights City Council to establish a 6 p.m. curfew in specific business districts and the region to discuss flash mobs.
Then there was the strange. The suspect in the California synagogue bombing who fled all the way to Cleveland Heights, and that $15 parking ticket Cleveland Browns star Josh Cribbs didn't think he deserved and battled.
And the tragic. Police continue to investigate the fatal shooting the Saturday after Thanksgiving that took a 16-year-old Cleveland Heights resident's life.
What do you think was the biggest story in Cleveland Heights for 2011? Tell us in the comments, and the staff at Cleveland Heights Patch will take your suggestions and organize them into a poll for readers to pick the biggest story of 2011. The story will run on Dec. 22 — Cleveland Heights Patch's one-year anniversary.
Garry Kanter
6:48 am on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
South Euclid's ill-advised and unconstitutional rezoning of the Oakwood golf course to allow (encourage) the poaching of the Severance WalMart. Unless overturned, History will recognize this thoughtless betrayal of their constituents by the South Euclid City Council (with an unthinkable 7 - 0 vote) as the Turnng Point that began the rapid descent of our beloved Near East Side Suburbs (NESS).