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🌱 Patch AM: How Shaker Heights Country Club transformed its locker room for modern families
Also check out New Year's Eve Party @ Windows On The River on the Shaker Heights Patch calendar

Good morning Shaker Heights! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How Shaker Heights Country Club transformed its locker room for modern families
- How a Shaker Heights workshop helped cook up a creative cookbook
- Meet the Shaker Heights freshman making waves in Atlantic 10 swimming
Also on today's calendar: New Year's Eve Party @ Windows On The River and 6 more events.
Find out what's happening in Shaker Heightsfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
Find out what's happening in Shaker Heightsfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
- Wednesday: Windy with snow and rain, with a high of 39 and low of 24 degrees.
- Thursday: Colder with some snow, temps: high: 29, low: 22.
- Friday: Cloudy, flurries; chilly, with a high of 31 and low of 24 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Ladies' Locker Rooms Receive Long-Overdue Makeovers (clubandresortbusiness.com) — Shaker Heights Country Club has completed a major, member-driven renovation of its long-outdated ladies’ locker room, adding family changing rooms, a quiet nursing space, and even a tucked-away remote-work area. The refreshed, spa-like design aims to better serve the club’s younger, family-focused membership and create a more inclusive, welcoming environment for women, teens, and parents alike.
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• Lake Erie Ink's ‘Kitchen Fables' cookbook showcases Cleveland creatives of all ages (cleveland.com) — A Cleveland Heights writing nonprofit is drawing Shaker Heights neighbors into its newest community cookbook, thanks in part to a creative food-writing workshop held at Kiln in Shaker Heights with chef Doug Katz. The “Kitchen Fables” book blends recipes, poems, stories, and artwork from Greater Clevelanders and is now on sale at local bookstores, while Lake Erie Ink also invites teen submissions for its next anthology.
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• Fordham, Rhode Island Collect Swimming and Diving Weekly Awards (atlantic10.com) — A Fordham University swimmer from Shaker Heights, freshman Quinn MacPhail, has been named the Atlantic 10 Men’s Rookie of the Week after winning both distance freestyle races in a recent tri-meet. The conference also honored Fordham diver David Vargas and Rhode Island’s Olivia Winslow for standout performances, highlighting strong showings across the league.
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Shaker Heights
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★ Featured events ★
- New Year's Eve Party @ Windows On The River
Windows On The River, 2000 Sycamore St, Cleveland
8:00 pm
Wednesday December 31
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Other local events
- Neighborhood and Economic Development-CANCELLED
Shaker Heights, OH Calendar , Shaker Heights City Hall 3400 Lee Road , Shaker Heights
6:00 pm - Boys Basketball (Varsity) @ Cuyahoga Hts
Cuyahoga Hts HS
7:00 pm - Women of the Beachwood Chamber Coffee Hour
Beachwood Public Library , 25501 Shaker Blvd , Beachwood
8:30 am - 54th Annual Thornton Park Varsity and JV High School Hockey Tournament
Shaker Heights, OH Calendar , 3301 Warrensville Center Road , Shaker Heights
9:00 am - Recess Teen Fitness Class
Shaker Heights, OH Calendar , 3450 Lee Rd. , Shaker Heights
4:00 pm - Fair Housing Review Board
Shaker Heights, OH Calendar Shaker Heights, OH 44120
6:00 pm - 54th Annual Thornton Park Varsity and JV High School Hockey Tournament
Shaker Heights, OH Calendar , 3301 Warrensville Center Road , Shaker Heights
9:00 am - Swimming (Varsity)
Beachwood HS
5:00 pm
Wednesday December 10
Thursday December 11
Friday December 12
📣 Shaker Heights Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Qi Gong 6 Week Series
AdvancedMMC , 8401 Chagrin Rd Suite 20-B , Chagrin Falls
10:00 am - Co-Working Day
Midtown Collaborative Center , 1974 E 66th St , Cleveland
10:00 am - Family Space
Garfield Heights Branch , 5409 Turney Rd , Garfield Heights
10:30 am - Little Bees Story Time at Sage & Honey (4 and under)
Sage & Honey , 10 E Washington St. , Chagrin Falls
10:30 am
Wednesday December 10
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Found Pet Alert: Looking to Reunite Dog with Owner
This dog was picked up as a stray and is located at the Cuyahoga County Animal Shelter (CCAS) and is looking for its owner. Please contact us… (Nextdoor ) - This morning, we came out to our trash cans having been dragged to the back of our driveway, one trash bag inside missing, and a set (it appeared to be only one set) of GIANT paw prints (like 4.
5"-5") in the snow around the cans. Anyone else in the Courtand Oval vicinity experience anything like this? (Nextdoor North Park)
🗞 Nearby News
University Heights
- 2026 Recycling Schedule (universityheights.com)
- Carolyn Noll Sorg Named 27th President of John Carroll University (schoolconstructionnews.com)
Beachwood
- Funshi Conveyor-Belt Sushi to Open in Beachwood on Dec. 15 (clevescene.com)
- Dump truck owner accused of defrauding Beachwood explosive company dies the day before hearing (cleveland.com)
- Shoplifter claims he was going to pay cash for $3,100 theft of goods from Target: Mayfield Heights Police Blotter (cleveland.com)
Cleveland Heights
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