Featured Buzz
More Buzz and News
“Not bad,” says David Mull, examining a beat-up piece of green plastic on a private beach. “We’ll find a use for it.” Mull finds the beach junk first and a use for it later. His winterized cottage in Madison Township is stuffed with just about anything discarded or washed up on the Lake Erie shore.…
Read MoreLake Erie is bringing the east side of Cleveland its first taste of lake-effect snow this weekend. And until about 10 a.m. Saturday, the lake will be kicking up some big waves. (Anyone going out surfing?) Anglers with smaller water craft will want to stay within the breakwall until 10 a.m., as winds from 15…
Read More
If you’re on Lake Erie, you need sunglasses. And three Cleveland guys want to sell you their unique pairs, with interchangeable frames, polarized lenses and 16 different colors of arms. Meet Chris Piazza, Brian Schultz and Stan Rothschild. Piazza, of Painesville, came up with the idea for Escher Sunglasses in 2015. His cousin, Schultz, joined…
Read More
Miller Boat Line is adding a $7 million passenger/vehicle ferry to the Lake Erie Islands. The ferry will be about 140 feet long and carry up to 26 vehicles and 600 passengers. “Special attention was given to design a vessel that enhances onboard passenger comfort and improve the loading and discharge times of both vehicles…
Read More
You can’t swim year-round in Lake Erie. But put on a hat and some fleece tights, and you can run along the shore in any type of Cleveland weather. Here are five of my favorite running routes, where you can get inspired by the water. Edgewater Park The loop around Edgewater Park, circling from the…
Read More
What to get the Lake Erie lover on your holiday gift list? Honestly, if it says Lake Erie on it, or if it psyches us up for getting out on the water, we’ll like it — even if we can’t use it for months. We featured a trove of gifts handmade by Northeast Ohio artists.…
Read More
The 2017 Lake Erie Fall Brawl results are in. And, pending polygraph exams, Matthew Branigan is taking top honors with his nearly 15-pound walleye. See the video of brawlers out on Friday in the Cleveland harbor. Branigan’s 14.97-pound catch is the largest caught in the seven years of the brawl. “That’s probably going to be…
Read More
Jim Beres was fishing for walleye, trying to win a boat in the Lake Erie Fall Brawl. He caught Ohio’s record-biggest lake trout instead. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is headed to Sheffield Lake today, to examine the trout and verify the new record, at 26.63 pounds and 38 inches. “We didn’t even know…
Read More
This 6,000-square-foot home on Cedar Point Road looks out on to Lake Erie from the front and the back. Plus, it has a ballroom and a putting green. The $1.5 million property in Sandusky includes three-quarters of an acre. The 3-bedroom, 6-bathroom house was custom built in 2007 by Poulos & Schmid architects and Seitz…
Read More
With less than two days left of the seventh annual Lake Erie Walleye Fall Brawl, anglers crammed the Cleveland harbor, hoping to catch a big one. Matthew Branigan hooked a 14.97-pound walleye Friday morning, the biggest ever in the competition. But that doesn’t mean the contest is over. Fishermen came out on a sunny afternoon,…
Read More