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Good morning Avon! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Mills Road work and new projects will reshape getting around Avon
  • Can Avon police finally name a Jane Doe after 60 years?
  • How did Avon volleyball slip to fifth in this week's rankings?

Also on today's calendar: The Avon Lake Immersive Experience and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: When geese fly, one side is longer than the other. do you know why that is ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 76 and low of 64 degrees.
  • Friday: Partly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 74, low: 57.
  • Saturday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 76 and low of 66 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. AVON/NORTH RIDGEVILLE: Pact with North Ridgeville finalized (westlifenews.com) — Avon drivers should expect intermittent overnight closures on Mills Road through late October or early November as the city and North Ridgeville share a $2.16 million resurfacing project. Avon City Council also advanced plans for Cleveland Clinic's major campus expansion, a second fire station on the southeast side, and improvements to the Stoney Ridge–Kinzel intersection and Route 83 sidewalks.
   

2. She died with a fake name. Ohio investigators believe 'Jane Doe' may have Kentucky connections (wkyt.com) — Avon police are renewing efforts to identify a woman known only as "Janet," who died in a 1965 car crash near Cleveland and may have family ties across Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee. Investigators, working with the DNA Doe Project, hope modern DNA and genealogy tools plus public tips can finally give this decades-old Avon-linked Jane Doe her real name.
   

3. Morning Journal volleyball Top of the Crop for Sept. 16 (morningjournal.com) — Avon's volleyball team sits fifth in the Morning Journal's latest Top of the Crop rankings with a 6-3 record, after notable wins and losses against other strong programs. The list tracks how Avon, Avon Lake, North Ridgeville and nearby schools are shuffling spots as league play heats up this week.
   

4. Sheffield police officer's widow sues Lorain County, alleging wrongful death after 911 technology outage (chroniclet.com) — A wrongful-death lawsuit claims a November 2025 outage in Lorain County's 911 dispatch technology delayed paramedics by about four minutes on a shared radio channel serving Sheffield Lake, Sheffield, Avon, and Avon Lake. The widow of Sheffield police Lt. Aaron Bober argues that known problems with the CAD and Locution systems put the entire public at risk and contributed to his death after a cardiac emergency.
   

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Ok Avon! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: because there are more geese on that side (Thank you jo L. for sending it in!)
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