Cupcakes, Beautification & Murder For Hire: A Week In Review

1. Let's start with some sweet news. (That will be my first and last pun in this article. I promise.)

A new cupcakery, The Confectionary Cupboard, has moved into Mentor.

That's great news for the city and bad news for my waistline.

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2. The city's Beautification Committee .

In recent years, the city has had its Parks Department or independent contractors take over responsibilities that used to belong to the Beautification Committee. For example, the city will pay a contractor to care for it's rose garden this year.

"The main reason -- from what I was told -- is many of the members are getting up in years and don't have the energy they used to," City Council President Scott Marn said to his fellow Council members during a work session Tuesday.

3. A Beachwood, OH, woman involved in a Facebook murder-for-hire plot .

Christine Metter, 41,  of conspiracy to commit murder after she and her father paid an undercover detective to kill her ex-husband, David Metter.

The plot originated in a Facebook chat between Christine Metter and a high-school friend she thought might be able to help her find a hit man.

4. Not to make this recap all court news but...

A Mentor man will spend two years in prison for trying to steal a dying woman's estate.

The judge said .

5. Principal Rick Koenig sent an email to staff and his students' parents this week,

"It is with tremendously mixed emotions that I inform you that I will be retiring at the end of this school year," Koenig wrote. "I initially thought I was coming here for one year to help find a more permanent person for the principal’s position. Well, I’ve stayed for four years, mostly because of everyone here and in the community making this such a wonderful place to be."