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📰 Local News: 🎤 Chase Matthew Takes the Mentor Rocks Stage Tonight

💵 Mentor Schools to Receive $125,339 as Lake County Returns Excess Assessment Funds

🛠️ Mentor Public Library Adds 57-Piece Tool Set for Borrowing

🏡 The Home Front: Why Your House Can Feel Too Small Even When You Have Enough Space

🏈 Sports: 🏈 Browns QB Battle Gets Two-Game Preseason Audition

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Country artist Chase Matthew takes the Mentor Rocks stage Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 7:30 p.m., with free admission and free parking at the Mentor Civic Amphitheater, 8600 Munson Road.

Matthew blends contemporary country with rock, pop and hip-hop influences. His breakout song “County Line” helped build a following that has grown to more than 1 billion career streams.

For concertgoers, a little planning will make Tuesday night easier.

There is no permanent seating, so bring a lawn chair or blanket. One important change this season: coolers are no longer permitted. Outside food and non-alcoholic drinks are still allowed, but they must be carried in by hand.

Outside alcohol and glass bottles are prohibited, and pets are not permitted on the grassy area of the main amphitheater grounds.

Food and beverage service begins at 5 p.m., with food vendors and alcoholic beverages available for purchase.

About 2,700 paved parking spaces are available around the Mentor Municipal Center campus and Mentor High School. Concertgoers should avoid posted no-parking areas and should not park at the University Hospitals Brunner Sanden Deitrick Wellness Center.

Mentor Rocks is a rain-or-shine event, although lightning may cause a delay or cancellation.

👉🏻 Planning to go? Our full concert guide has the parking details, venue rules, weather information and a quick checklist of what to bring — and what to leave at home.

Mentor Schools is receiving about $125,339 as Lake County returns $750,000 in excess real estate assessment funds to schools, municipalities and other taxing authorities.

According to reporting by Cleveland.com, Willoughby-Eastlake Schools will receive about $141,591, while Mentor Schools will receive approximately $125,339. The payments were prorated based on each taxing entity’s share of property-tax collections over the previous six years.

Lake County Auditor Christopher Galloway had announced the $750,000 return earlier this summer. During a June 25 Lake County commissioners meeting, Galloway said his office reviewed the Real Estate Assessment Fund and determined it could return the money while still keeping enough to carry out required property assessment work. Official meeting minutes say the conclusion followed a five-year review of the fund.

The Real Estate Assessment Fund helps pay for property appraisal and other assessment-related responsibilities. Under Ohio law, the fund is supported through fees tied to property-tax collections and is restricted to certain real estate assessment expenses.

Ohio Revised Code Section 325.31 also provides for qualifying money left in the fund to be distributed proportionally to the taxing authorities that contributed to it.

For Mentor-area residents, the direct local impact is a $125,339 payment to Mentor Schools.

Neither the Cleveland.com report nor the county records reviewed by Local Buzz specify how Mentor Schools plans to use the money.

👉🏻 Want to know where the $750,000 came from, why Mentor Schools received $125,339 and what Ohio law says happens to excess assessment funds? We break it down in the full story.

Need a hammer, screwdriver or pair of pliers for a project around the house? Mentor Public Library now has another option besides buying one.

The library has added a 57-piece tool set to its Library of Things at the Main Branch, 8215 Mentor Ave. According to Mentor Public Library, the set includes a hammer, pliers, screwdrivers, hex keys, specialty bits and other basic tools. A tape measure, stud finder and level can also be borrowed separately.

Adults with CLEVNET cards in good standing can borrow the tool set for up to 14 days. The set must be picked up from and returned to the Main Branch, and renewals are not available.

The addition expands a Library of Things that already includes board games, cake pans, Wi-Fi hotspots, binoculars, puzzles, light-therapy lamps, museum and attraction passes, yarn-crafting tools and Shelf to Chef cooking kits.

Patrons can check whether the tools are available by calling Mentor Public Library at 440-255-8811 ext. 2.

👉🏻 Thinking about borrowing the set? We’ve put the checkout details, what to know before visiting the library and a closer look at the Library of Things on the Local Buzz website.

Source: Mentor Public Library

Before assuming you need more square footage, look for four clues that your existing rooms may simply be doing the wrong jobs.

A house can have enough square footage and still feel crowded.

The problem is not always the size of the home. Sometimes the rooms are still organized around a version of family life that no longer exists.

A dining room may be waiting for formal meals that rarely happen. A bedroom may still function like a child’s room years after that child left home. A basement may hold furniture, boxes and equipment tied to routines that have quietly faded away.

Meanwhile, the activities that matter now—working from home, exercising, caring for family, hosting grandchildren or simply wanting a quiet place to read—are competing for whatever space is left.

Storage can create the same illusion. A house may technically have closets, cabinets and shelving, but if useful items are buried behind things nobody reaches for, the storage is not really serving the household.

Furniture matters too. Large pieces, inherited pieces or layouts built around old habits can consume floor space and limit how a room works.

Before deciding you need more square footage, try a four-part check.

Find one room with an outdated job. Find one room doing too many jobs. Find one storage area that is technically available but hard to use. Then identify one piece of furniture that controls more space than it deserves.

Those four clues can reveal whether the problem is truly size—or assignment.

Sometimes a home really has been outgrown. But sometimes the better first move is to give existing space a new purpose.

A dining room can become a flexible work-and-meal area. A former bedroom can support hobbies, guests or exercise. A basement can stop being overflow storage and start doing something useful again.

The house has not changed size.

The way it supports daily life has.

Sometimes creating more room begins by deciding what the rooms you already have should do next.

👉🏻 Before you assume the house itself is too small, try our four-clue space audit and the simple “square footage or assignment?” test to see where your existing rooms may be working against the way you live now. Read More on the website.

The Cleveland Browns are giving Shedeur Sanders and Deshaun Watson more time to settle their quarterback competition.

Head coach Todd Monken said Monday that each quarterback will start one of Cleveland’s first two preseason games. The Browns open Saturday against the Chicago Bears before facing the Buffalo Bills the following weekend.

Which quarterback gets which start has not yet been decided.

More importantly, one strong or poor preseason outing apparently will not settle the competition. Monken said Sanders and Watson will continue sharing first-team opportunities during joint practices with Buffalo, extending an evaluation process that has already included alternating work with the starters during training camp.

That gives Cleveland’s coaching staff multiple opportunities to compare the quarterbacks before making a decision.

Watson brings significantly more NFL experience, but his recent seasons have been disrupted by injuries and inconsistent play. Sanders, meanwhile, is trying to take a step forward after throwing seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions in eight appearances as a rookie in 2025.

For Browns fans, the timetable is becoming clearer even if the eventual starter is not.

Cleveland plans to see both quarterbacks lead the offense in preseason action before moving closer to a decision. Monken indicated the picture should become clearer after those first two games.

Until then, the Browns’ quarterback competition remains exactly that — a competition.

Read the full article at sports.yahoo.com

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darn, wish I would’ve thought of this… LOL