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Summertime, and the reading is easy . . . or challenging, depending on our mood, right? I have just submitted my latest YA manuscript to my agent, so I am gearing up for a readin...

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Police officers and law department personnel from several Ohio cities are helping the Special Olympic torch make its way down to Columbus for the games Friday.

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1. 2012 CARDINAL DASH Where/When: Mentor High School, 9 a.m. Saturday Why Go: Scott Panchik -- a health and physical education teacher at Mentor High -- is competing in the nat...

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The Doo Wop Kingz serenaded the crowd Tuesday evening at Civic Center Park as the city of Mentor kicked off its summer concert series. The concert was sponsored by Honda of Mentor.&#...

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What do an Australian shepherd with heterochromia and a 6-year-old girl have in common? Reading -- specifically reading at Mentor Public Library's Paws to Read program, which pairs t...

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The Mentor Public Library will kick off its first ever summer concert series tonight with the music of The Beatles. Acoustic guitarist Rick Iacoboni will not just play The Beatles' m...

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The annual Summer Concert Series returns to the Civic Center Amphitheatre behind Mentor City Hall this summer. The free outdoor concerts will go from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday from t...

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Kids from the "Hooked on Fishing -- Not on Drugs" day camp dropped their lines this Thursday at Lake Metroparks. Even though many of the kids had never fished before, several of them...