Bob Sandrick

The demolition of the former Central Elementary School on Ohio 82 just west of Brecksville Road is scheduled for this summer and may start in a matter of weeks or even days.

Police arrested a Parma man June 13 after he slapped his girlfriend in the parking lot of Stone Ridge apartments.

Police arrested a Michigan man June 12 after catching him driving drunk. Also, a Cleveland man was arrested June 11 after he stole more than $575 in groceries from Aldi.

A Lakewood woman, 18, called police June 9 and said a 19-year-old Wadsworth man, with whom she had just had sex in exchange for money, robbed her of $200 at gunpoint.

Two Brook Park men, 64 and 42, fought each other at about 9:30 p.m. June 9 outside a Wengler Drive home.

An unidentified man stole a sport-utility vehicle from Ken Ganley Chevrolet, 13865 Brookpark Road. Also, Galaxy tablets were reported stolen at about noon June 4 from Athens Foods Inc. on Snow Road.

North Royalton City Council voted last week to place a property tax increase on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Brecksville is ordering more than $700,000 in equipment to replace items lost in an April 7 service garage fire at Blossom Hill on Oakes Road.

A hair stylist with a luxury salon in Strongsville is expanding into Camden Woods, an 83-townhome development at the southeast corner of Ohio 82 and Prospect Road.

As expected, City Council last week approved a contract with ProQuality Demolition in Youngstown to tear down the former Central Elementary School.