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📆 Mentor Council to Consider Waste Contract, Added Pool Costs Today

📰 Mentor Police Welcome School Resource Officers and Crossing Guards Back for New School Year

🏠 THE HOME FRONT: The Storage Shift That Makes Everyday Life Easier

🏈 Sports: 🏈 Shedeur Sanders to Start Saturday as Browns QB Competition Continues

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Summer is winding down at the Mentor Civic Amphitheater, with just two Mentor Rocks concerts remaining in the 2026 season.

ABBA Revisited takes the stage Tuesday, August 18, from 7 to 9 p.m. The tribute group has been performing ABBA’s music since 2001, recreating the group’s familiar sound and look with harmonies, musicianship and costumes inspired by the original band.

Admission and parking are free, and the concert is open to all ages. Lawn seating is available, so bring a chair or blanket. Food vendors will be on site, along with beer and wine for purchase. Outside food and non-alcoholic drinks may also be hand carried onto the grounds.

A few reminders before heading out: coolers, outside alcohol, glass containers, food deliveries and pets are not permitted on the main amphitheater grounds.

After Tuesday, there is only one more Mentor Rocks concert this summer. ESCAPE, a Journey tribute focused on the Steve Perry era, closes the season Tuesday, August 25, with a special extended performance beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday at a glance:
August 18 • 7 p.m. • Mentor Civic Amphitheater • Free admission and parking

👉🏻 Planning to go? We’ve put together the parking options, what you can bring, what to leave at home and a look ahead at the final Mentor Rocks concert of the summer on the website.

Mentor City Council will consider proposals Tuesday involving residential waste service, additional Civic Center Pool costs and several major city projects.

The Aug. 18 meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Mentor Municipal Center, 8500 Civic Center Boulevard. Council meetings are open to the public.

Among the items before Council is a proposed extension of Mentor’s residential waste and recycling agreement with Waste Management through 2031, with annual rate adjustments beginning in 2027.

Council will also consider two change orders totaling $400,558 for contracts connected to the Civic Center Pool redevelopment — $263,446 for one contract and $137,112 for another.

The added costs come after construction delays kept the rebuilt pool complex from opening for the 2026 season. The city has said the facility is expected to open in 2027.

Other proposals include a roughly $6.97 million Municipal Annex construction contract, engineering work connected to improvements at the SR 615/I-90 interchange and changes to Mentor’s electric-bicycle regulations.

A conditional-use request for the proposed FabFive Fields indoor recreation facility is also scheduled for Council consideration.

👉🏻 Read our full agenda preview for a closer look at the projects, proposed costs and rules Council will consider Tuesday.

Mentor Police are welcoming back the School Resource Officers and crossing guards who will help keep students safe throughout the new school year.

According to the department, Monday marked the first day of school for the officers and guards assigned to Mentor Schools. Their work includes helping students cross busy streets, monitoring intersections and providing a visible safety presence inside school buildings.

This year’s assignments include SRO Lehner at Orchard Hollow, SRO Finucan at Memorial, SRO Formick at Ridge, SRO Cueni at Bellflower and SRO Adkins at Shore.

Crossing guards include Joe Vivolo and Sandy Chruszezak, who is assigned to the Fairfax and Sterling intersection.

Mentor Police said the officers and crossing guards are looking forward to welcoming students back and getting to know them throughout the year.

For families, their return is also a reminder to slow down near schools, watch carefully at crosswalks and expect more pedestrian activity during arrival and dismissal times.

Mentor Police wished students, families and staff a safe and successful school year.

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The most useful storage systems do more than hold belongings. They make the things you use most often easier to find, reach and put away.

Most storage problems are not really about a lack of space. They are about friction.

If you have to move three things to reach the one you use every day, that item is not stored well. If putting something away takes more effort than leaving it on the counter, the system is working against the way you live.

A useful shift is to separate active storage from long-term storage.

Active storage is for the things you reach for regularly: dog leashes, lunch containers, cleaning supplies, everyday tools, mail, chargers, shoes, pantry staples. These items should be easy to see, grab and return—ideally near the place where they are actually used.

Long-term storage serves a different purpose. Holiday decorations, rarely used serving pieces, archived paperwork and out-of-season gear can live farther away, higher up or deeper inside cabinets because you do not need them every day.

The mistake is treating both kinds of storage the same.

Deep cabinets often look efficient because they hold a lot. But when everyday items disappear behind other belongings, storage becomes a small daily excavation. Over time, the front fills with whatever is easiest to reach while the back becomes forgotten territory.

Instead of organizing only by category, try organizing around routines. Keep coffee supplies near the coffee maker. Put school or work grab-and-go items near the exit. Store cleaning products close to the rooms where you use them. Give incoming mail one obvious landing place.

The best storage system is not the one that looks most impressive when everything is perfectly arranged.

It is the one that makes ordinary life easier on a busy Tuesday—and makes putting things back almost as simple as taking them out.

👉🏻 On The Home Front page, we take the idea further with a simple way to identify active versus long-term storage, spot the routines creating clutter and rethink the spaces that make everyday tasks harder than they need to be.

Shedeur Sanders will get the next opportunity to make his case in the Browns’ quarterback competition when he starts Saturday’s preseason game against the Buffalo Bills.

Head coach Todd Monken continues to evaluate Sanders and Deshaun Watson for the starting job, with neither quarterback separating himself enough to end the competition.

According to the Browns, Sanders and Watson will both receive first-team repetitions during Thursday’s joint practice with Buffalo. Sanders will then get the start Saturday after Watson played the entire first half of Cleveland’s preseason opener against Chicago.

Watson completed 11 of 15 passes for 126 yards against the Bears. Sanders entered in the second half and completed 6 of 11 passes for 79 yards, including completions of 24 and 35 yards. Both quarterbacks also had a turnover as Cleveland fell 34-10.

Monken said after the game that he was pleased with the quarterback play despite the turnovers, and the evaluation will continue this week.

For Browns fans, Saturday provides the next important look at the competition, this time with Sanders getting the first snaps.

Cleveland hosts Buffalo Saturday, Aug. 22, at 1 p.m. at Huntington Bank Field.

Source: Cleveland Browns team reporting and comments from head coach Todd Monken.

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