Friends of the Libraries Sale Preview Kicks Off Today

Members' preview starts at 4 p.m., and the public sale begins Friday at the Lee Road Library

The Friends of the Heights Libraries Book Sale preview kicks off today at the Lee Road Library, and the public sale begins Friday and runs through Monday. Library staff members have weeded through the collection and the Friends have  gathered donated items to create a selection that includes 30,000 books and a variety of CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes and even vinyl records. Prices range from 50 cents to $2 and include hardcovers, large paperbacks, children's books, small paperbacks and CDs, VHS tapes and DVDs. The schedule is below, and includes special promotions: Proceeds from the sale benefit the Friends of the Heights Libraries, which supports the library system through programming and advocacy.

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Poll: Where's Your Favorite Patio in Cleveland Heights?

Besides your backyard, tell us what restaurant has the best dining outdoors.

The weather is shaping up for outdoor dining with family and friends. Eating outdoors is a great way to welcome in summer while enjoying a good meal and relaxing. We’ve got to take advantage while we can — in Northeast Ohio, there only seems to be a few months to enjoy the outdoors. This week's Readers' Choice focuses on the Best Outdoor Patio. Readers nominated the following restaurants for best patio in Cleveland Heights: Vote for your favorite below. We'll select a winner at 5 p.m. Friday, May 18 and announce it in a story on Saturday, May 19. In judging, we'll consider comments, poll votes and reviews in our complete directory of local businesses. Be sure to check out our contest rules in the PDF at right.

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Cleveland's Michael Symon Writes Love Letter to Hometown

Read the letter and tell us what you love about Cleveland

Chef Michael Symon, owner of Eton Plaza's B-Spot and other area restaurants, showed a little emotion and a lot of Cleveland pride in a touching love letter to Cleveland for The Huffington Post today. Raised in North Olmsted and a graduate of Lakewood's St. Edward High School, he reminisces about places all over the area: I remember when I was young and I would spend my entire weekends with you and my grandfather: heading to the Eastside and staying with my grandparents; taking the rapid Downtown; shopping at the Westside Market with all its fabulous aromas of smoked meats and baked breads. It is here I found my true love for food, for going to the historic Terminal Tower to pick up my Grandma at Higbees and heading back east to cook split …

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2012 Road Repairs: Street Work Scheduled For The Week of May 14

Cleveland Heights will repair more than 50 roads this year. Here are the streets the city plans to work on this week.

At the end of March, we told you about the streets Cleveland Heights plans to fix this year. More than 50 are on the list to be repaved or surface treated. Last week, work began on nine roads. This week, seven more streets will be surface treated: Repairs take a day or two per street and about two to three weeks per group, said Alex Mannarino, public works director. Work usually begins on Monday but can be pushed back because of weather. The streets will not be closed off, Mannarino said, but parking can be limited. Look for more road work updates throughout the orange barrel season, and click on the interactive map above to view all streets the city plans to fix.

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Patch Preview: Shaker Heights News

UH, Shaker Discuss Merging Fire Departments

A final report with information on potential consolidation savings and more should be available this summer.

Editor's note: Shaker Heights Patch will launch very soon, but we are so excited to be in the new town, we thought, why wait to start making your lives ridiculously easy? We'll be featuring occasional Shaker Heights news on neighboring sites until we launch the new site in early June, when you can add ShakerHeights.Patch.com to your browser's bookmarks! Two months could pass before residents get a clear vision of a fire department merger between Shaker Heights and University Heights. According to Emergency Services Consulting International, the firm hired to explore the cities' options, that's when some fun will ensue. "When (communities) decide to move forward with it and they actually start creating a firm implementation plan, in other …

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CH-UH Will Discuss Long-Term Lease Of Millikin With Mosdos

Karen Jones, CH-UH School Board president, said this is the first option that will be made available to Mosdos Ohr Hatorah.

CH-UH School Board president Karen Jones announced at Tuesday night's school board work session that the district will discuss a long-term lease of Millikin with Mosdos Ohr Hatorah. The board met in executive session at 6 p.m. before the regularly scheduled work session at 7 p.m. at Wiley Middle School. Jones had said at a meeting Monday night that the board would consider putting the former Millikin School, which has been vacant since 2006, up for public auction. Instead, the board decided to "initiate entering into negotiations of a long-term lease," Jones said. "This is the first option that will be made available," Jones said. "(A public auction) is not off the table." Alan Rapoport, a former Cleveland Heights mayor who represents …

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Kelley: Call Center Will Not Move Into Millikin

Cleveland Heights Mayor Ed Kelley confirmed the developer will have space near Monticello and Mayfield, and School Board president Karen Jones said the CH-UH Board will consider putting Millikin up for public auction in its executive session tonight.

The Millikin controversy has come full circle. The recent debate over the former school was sparked by word that a call center was interested in the building, constructed in the mid-50's, at 1700 Crest Road. Cleveland Heights Mayor Ed Kelley confirmed that was no longer on the table at a meeting Monday night that included Cleveland Heights and University Heights city councils and the CH-UH School Board at the Cleveland Heights Community Center. About 400 people came to listen to the work session, the majority being Orthodox Jewish families from Mosdos Ohr Hatorah, which wants to buy Millikin. Kelley said the developer previously interested in opening a call center in the school building, owned by the CH-UH City School District, has a …

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