With the opening of the new aquatic center in Mayfield Heights now projected for sometime between June 30 and July 7, the new, $710,000 on-site playground is expected to open about a month later.
Richmond Heights, through the efforts of Mayor Kim Thomas, has been named one of five Great Lakes community winners of the inaugural Richard M. Daley Water Equity Community Award. The award will help Richmond Heights modernize its water infrastructure after years of water line breaks.
Former Richmond Heights police chief Thomas Wetzel, who retired from that position March 7, was sworn in exactly three months later, on June 7, as interim chief of the University Circle Police Department.
There are but 161 high school students in the country, and only three in Ohio, who have been named 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholars. And Highland Heights is home to one of them.