Editor's note: Shaker Heights Patch will launch very soon, but we are so excited to be in the new town, we thought, why wait to start making your lives ridiculously easy? We'll be featuring occasional Shaker Heights news on neighboring sites until we launch the new site in early June, when you can add ShakerHeights.Patch.com to your browser's bookmarks! Friday was a record-setting day at Classic Park in Eastlake without the use of bats or a few fastballs.Donning bright blue "H2Know" shirts, 474 students and staff from Laurel School, Beachwood High School and eight other Northeast Ohio schools…

Editor's note: Shaker Heights Patch will launch very soon, but we are so excited to be in the new town, we thought, why wait to start making your lives ridiculously easy? We'll be featuring occasional Shaker Heights news on neighboring sites until we launch the new site in early June, when you can add ShakerHeights.Patch.com to your browser's bookmarks! Mark Zetzer will likely change the logo for his Shaker Heights Taxpayers Union, but it won't be easy.The city has threatened legal action if Zetzer, a graphic artist, doesn't do so. All of the free advice lawyers have given the resident …

The governments in University Heights and Shaker Heights will spend the summer pondering a merger of the communities' fire departments. Both parties await logistical details from North Carolina-based Emergency Services Consulting International to gauge whether merging would work and how much money such a move would save. The Cleveland Foundation gave the cities a $40,000 grant to help cover the cost of the study. ESCI hopes to have the study completed by late June or early July, Senior Vice President of Operations Philip Kouwe said. The organization has already completed a preliminary …

Editor's note: Shaker Heights Patch will launch very soon, but we are so excited to be in the new town, we thought, why wait to start making your lives ridiculously easy? We'll be featuring occasional Shaker Heights news on neighboring sites until we launch the new site in early June, when you can add ShakerHeights.Patch.com to your browser's bookmarks! Two months could pass before residents get a clear vision of a fire department merger between Shaker Heights and University Heights. According to Emergency Services Consulting International, the firm hired to explore the cities' options, that'…