Silver Lake News

Requests won't be granted for out-of-district kindergarten students to attend Silver Lake Elementary School in the 2009-10 academic year.

A University of Akron trustee will face a hearing and possible trial July 28 on charges that he had a stake in the house his son was poised to sell to the university.

I'm a week late on this so let's get started with hearty congratulations to the members of Stimulus - lead singer/songwriter/drummer Cam Johnson of Silver Lake, guitarist/vocalist Dan Sutter of Bath Township and guitarist Ryan Husser and bassist Joe Knapp, both of Brimfield Township.

Virginia Robinson's yard is about to get a new look. Robinson of Akron won a front- or backyard makeover worth $10,000 in Keep Akron Beautiful's annual Dreamscape raffle.

DOWNTOWN : Blogdowntown tweeted about it on Tuesday : "Second day that a plane has been towing a banner for A&E's Hammertime around Downtown.

The local restaurant scene has been mostly quiet in Los Feliz, simmering in Echo Park and exploding in Silver Lake lately.

"Was everything terrific as always?" asked the host as my friends and I left Reservoir in Silver Lake.

CUYAHOGA FALLS: The names of two men killed in Iraq will never be forgotten. Monday, the eastbound lanes of a stretch of Front Street from state Route 8 to Silver Lake were designated the Sgt.

''You made your bed, now lie in it'' is what people sometimes say to mean, ''You must now bear the consequences of your immoderate actions.'' Voluntary Chaos , a novel by former Silver Lake resident Joan Jackson, is about a woman who makes her bed and finds out that lying in it isn't as comfortable as she'd hoped.

There is an old saying: ''Figures lie, and liars figure.'' Like much of the other rhetoric in the campaign to recall Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic, the ''data'' offered by recall proponents are nonsense.

CUYAHOGA FALLS: A proposal to redistrict elementary schools has upset some Cuyahoga Falls parents.

First Baptist Church of Akron will celebrate its 175th anniversary with a worship service at 10:30 a.m. and a special program at 1 p.m. Sunday at the church, 1670 Shatto Ave., Akron.

When the takeout shack Netty's opened in the late 1980s, it was in retrospect the first bowshot in the gentrification of Silver Lake, the first acknowledgment that the community might include residents who knew about things like blackened chicken and pesto.

Chef Gloria Felix, veteran of some of LA's hippest restaurants is putting her Verace Pizza Napoletana certification to good use at Reservoir, an upscale eatery in funky-no-more Silver Lake; its midpriced menu ...

Richard G. Lubinski is president at Silver Lake, OH-based Think Energy Management LLC, a nationally recognized energy consulting firm.

Out on errands today and noticed a huge crowd waiting in the rain outside Reservoir, the new joint in the old Netty's space at 1700 Silver Lake Blvd.

Cesar Valenzuela, a 44-year-old Latino man, died of multiple gunshot wounds and a severed forearm Monday, Oct., 13, 2008 in an incident that took place in the 1400 block of Silver Lake Boulevard, according to ...

I watch a potential customer turning over a vintage silver cigarette case-combo-lighter in his hand.

Summit County Juvenile Court wasn't exactly alive with the sweet sound of music on Dec.

The Women's Board of Akron Children's Hospital recently honored 44 area young women at its 106th Charity Ball at Goodyear Hall.