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Shaker Heights To Set Future City Council Salaries This Week
City council members currently earn $9,000 per year.

Chris Mazzolini worked as a newspaper reporter in North Carolina for the past six years, where he jumped at the chance to cover all kinds of interesting and crazy things. Chris embedded with U.S. Marines on search-and-rescue operations in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He got some government folks fired for corruption. And a bunch more.
Life on the beach was great (he lived in a place called Surf City!) but his heart and family were elsewhere. So Chris happily returned to Northeast Ohio to abandon the printing press, go full digital and build something great at Patch.
Before beginning his career as an ink-stained wretch, Chris graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a master's degree. Before that, he studied political science and played football at Kenyon College. Even before that, he came of age at Wickliffe High School.
Chris is happily married to his wife Karyn. Together, they maintain a stable of critters - two dogs, two cats. In his free time, he enjoys reading and sports. Like many of you, he curses the Steelers and Ravens, and roots in vain for the Browns.
City council members currently earn $9,000 per year.

There are no Fourth of July fireworks in Shaker Heights this year.
Here are some of the weirdest police reports and incidents from departments across the region.
Here are some of the weirdest police reports and incidents from departments across the region.
A 55-year-old woman is dead in an apparent murder and her grandson is in custody.
This 7-bedroom, 7-bathroom, 7,290-square-foot home was built in 1915.
The information in this report is from the Shaker Heights Police Department. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A roundup of burglary reports made to the Cleveland Heights Police Department between June 12 and June 18.
The Larchmere Porchfest is this Saturday.
Art and music lovers take note: Shaker Heights will be brimming with things to do this weekend.
Teacher pay will increase over the next three years but so will their share of the health-care costs.
Five Cumberland Pool lifeguards were honored for their work to save a man's life last week.
The board will hold its first vote Tuesday night on whether to ask the voters to approve a $134.8 million bond issue.
Art Falco, the CEO of PlayHouseSquare and a Shaker Heights resident, was given a prestigious award by the Cleveland Foundation.