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Hello Shaker Heights! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Shaker Heights' stronger 2025 finances could affect services and taxes
  • Will Shaker Heights keep or cancel its Flock surveillance cameras?
  • Can Shaker Heights avenge last year's tight loss at Lorain?

Also on today's calendar: Cle Feud Competition and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Cooler; a bit of morning rain, with a high of 63 and low of 50 degrees.
  • Saturday: Sunny to partly cloudy, temps: high: 63, low: 46.
  • Sunday: Sunshine, with a high of 67 and low of 52 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Shaker Heights finances improve as revenue, fund balance rose in 2025 (cleveland.com) — Shaker Heights ended 2025 with stronger finances, growing its main operating fund to $46.2 million while trimming overall debt to $22.8 million. Higher income and property tax collections, rising property values, and controlled spending helped boost cash and investments past $101 million, while funding sewer upgrades, street resurfacing, and other local infrastructure work.
   

2. Shaker Heights council hears cheers and jeers on Flock cameras in heated meeting (cleveland.com) — Shaker Heights residents packed a tense City Council meeting as members clashed over whether to keep or cancel the city's Flock license plate surveillance cameras and their $50,500 annual contract. Speakers, including students and activists, pressed privacy and civil-rights concerns, while supporters emphasized unequal impacts of crime and the system's role in investigations ahead of upcoming budget decisions.
   

3. Shaker Heights at Lorain football: Preview capsule for Oct. 2 game (morningjournal.com) — Shaker Heights fans can look ahead to Friday night's Greater Cleveland Conference matchup at Lorain, where the 1-5 Red Raiders seek to avenge last year's close loss. Led by Yale commit lineman Max Resnick, Shaker Heights faces a similarly struggling Lorain squad in what's expected to be a more evenly matched contest.
   

4. Man arrested at bank for threatening employees: University Heights Police Blotter (cleveland.com) — A University Heights police blotter item notes that a reported gun threat involving motorists ultimately traced the original weapons offense back to Shaker Heights, where local officers opened a separate investigation. The report also details several nearby arrests, traffic stops, and thefts, giving Shaker Heights residents a sense of recent crime patterns in adjoining communities they frequently visit or drive through.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig?" — Because he was such a boar! (Thank you Theresa H. for sending it in!)
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