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Friday, May 3, 2013

5 Things You Should Post on Patch This Summer

Stay tuned in and tune in your fellow community members to news and events around Cleveland Heights.

At Patch, we give you the news, events, business listings and other stuff to make your life ridiculously easy in Shaker Heights when it comes to finding local information. We also make it ridiculously easy for you to do the same. There are at least five things you should share on Patch this summer to keep your neighbors informed about goings-on around town. Here's what they are and how to post about them: Remember, these topics aren't just limited to summer months. You can share similar news and events all year long on Patch. We are your community news site, so be a part of the conversation!

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Our Facebook Fans Find Out More, First

'Like' our page to find out why!

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Share Your Best Purim Pics

Did you celebrate Purim? We want to see your costumes and hamantashen.

Friday, February 22, 2013

Share Your Purim Photos

This year, show us your goofiest costumes and yummiest hamantashen.

Purim is this weekend, and we know parties will be hopping in Cleveland Heights. Last year, over 50 photos of Purim parties at everywhere from senior living facilities, synagogues and more were submitted to Patch, and we want to see even more this year! Click the green button above to upload your favorite shots, and we'll feature them on Cleveland Heights Patch next week!

Friday, February 1, 2013

Check Traffic Before Driving in the Snow

Click here to plan your route to work this morning and avoid a snowy headache

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Show Me Your Snow

Are you out & about today? Snap a shot of what the snow looks like in your neighborhood and share it with Cleveland Heights!

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

This Local Photo Has 427 'Likes' on Facebook

Find out why everyone's talking about a photo taken by a Cleveland Heights Patch reader - and how you can put your own shots up for everyone to see!

This image has gotten quite a bit of buzz on Cleveland Heights Patch's Facebook page. I can see why! The amazing photo was taken by quick-thinking Patch user Christine McBurney in Cleveland Heights and uploaded to our community photo gallery. She saw the deer at her Rydalmount Road house in late December. "I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and I thought it was people jogging!" Barefoot and wearing pajamas, McBurney grabbed her camera and took just one shot of those eight deer — which, if you ask me, turned out great. She shared it on her own Facebook page, got a great response, and shared it with Cleveland Heights Patch. Several days later, I spotted it and thought it was so cool that I made it the cover photo on Cleveland Heights…

Jeri Ann Waltrip

3:05 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013

I live close to Rydalmount & have also been seeing lots of deer lately. They have even been bedding down in my back yard. There have been deer in the Park Synagogue area, but now I think a lot are coming from the Oakwood Country Club where they are now constructing a shopping center. When the construction first started, you could see deer wandering on Taylor Road looking lost. It is not unusual …   more ›

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Show Us Your Snow

Upload your photos of the first big snow of the year.

This weekend, we finally got real snow. Maybe you were one of many who cursed its arrival, slowing rush hour traffic on Friday. Or maybe you, like me, were excited to see it. (Sorry, haters.) Either way, we want to see what you saw. Share your favorite pics with Patch! Just upload them to the gallery above.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Meet Joe Strailey

Joe is advertising manager for five Patch sites.

Joe Strailey had 12 years of ad sales experience when he started as an ad manager for five Northeast Ohio Patch sites in August of 2011. His favorite part of the job, he said, is working with small businesses. “I love helping to put the spotlight on small businesses,” he said. “I live in a Patch town, and I would want to support small businesses — someone who has taken that risk to put their entire life savings to chase their dream. I really admire that.” Joe, a Painesville native who now lives in Mentor with his wife Karissa and dog Roxie, worked at Cleveland Scene Magazine for ten years before coming on board at Patch. When he’s not working, he holds season tickets to the Browns, coaches basketball for 8- to 14-year-old boys and girls, …

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Here's How To Add Photos Via the Patch iPhone App (Instructional Photos)

Let's face it, most of what we do online is done on our mobile devices ... here's a tutorial on how to take and add pictures to Patch sites.

Patch always likes when the community contributes to the sites ... now it's ridiculously easy to do it on your cell phone while out in the community at those sporting and school events, eating at restaurants or while shopping. 

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