Murder for Hire Suspect Requests Lower Bond, Helicopters Used to Survey Power Lines and More: Around the Patch

1. Hillcrest Patch

FirstEnergy has notified area officials that throughout the Hillcrest area for a couple weeks as they look at power lines.

2. Beachwood Patch 

The Beachwood woman accused of initiating a murder-for-hire scheme via Facebook has asked the courts to reduce her bond. Christine Metter, 40, has been in Lake County Jail since her June 2 arrest on a $500,000 cash bond on charges that she and her father tried to pay her high school friend, Patrick Sabo, $50,000 to kill her ex-husband. Read  on Beachwood Patch. 

3. Lakewood Patch

McDonald's is considering putting one of its stores on the property that houses the now-shuttered 90-year-old Detroit Theatre, and taking the historic building down. Though the company has not bought the land, there have been several meetings. Readers about the proposal on Lakewood Patch. 

4. Westlake Patch

Borders announced Monday that the approximately 400 bookstores that were spared back in February, including locations in Strongsville, Solon, Beachwood and Westlake, will close. Read . 

Editor's Note: This "Around the Patch" update is shared among Beachwood, Cleveland Heights and North Canton Patches and may contain updates from any of those Patches.