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Around the Patch: The Progressive Party, Bath Salts & Groping

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1. A 75-year-old Twinsburg man was arrested last week and charged with sexual imposition after he was accused of groping a male employee at Solon's Giant Eagle.

Basilio Caliri was arrested July 6 and charged with sexual imposition.

The grocery store worker, a 19-year-old Solon resident, told police that on July 4 Caliri walked up to him in front of the store and hugged him. The man told police that Caliri then patted his crotch with his hand and made a lewd comment, according to the police report.

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2. The city of Stow is considering a ban on bath salts — not the kind used to fragrance tub time; the kind that people have snorted, smoked or swallowed to get high.

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(and the difference between the two sorts of bath salts.)

3. Election season is warming up and local candidates are invited to blog on their local Patch sites.

A candidate for Cleveland Heights City Council as to why he joined the Progressive Party and what its goals are.

4. The Beachwood Board of Education approved  saving about $50,000 a year in salary.

The positions of assistant superintendent, whose duties included both personnel and curriculum, and the technology coordinator, who headed the district’s IT staff, have been eliminated and their responsibilities re-allocated.


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