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Cleveland Heights officials are seeking ways to improve the city’s roads, but that could lead to paving over historic brick streets. The proposal is facing pushback from residents, who will meet Wednesday night to discuss the issue. The city floated the idea of paving over the brick before, but residents rejected it in favor of keeping the streets as they are. Now the city is seeking ways to fix parts of the roads that have fallen into disrepair.

Since the mass shooting in Dayton earlier this year, the city’s mayor, Nan Whaley, has been an outspoken campaigner for new gun control measures. During an appearance Friday at the City Club of Cleveland, Whaley said she’s throwing her support behind several proposed new laws.

Leap day only comes along every four years — and its rarity, advocates say, makes it the perfect day to focus on rare diseases. Tracy Greenberg has had mucopolysaccharidosis — Morquio syndrome or MPS4A for short — her whole life. But she was only properly diagnosed when she was 42 years old. She said she cried tears of happiness when she found out. "Some of my family members said, 'Why are you so happy? Are you happy that you have this disease?' And I said, 'No, I'm happy that I'm going to be treated for this disease because I have it no matter what.'"

Mentor-on-the-Lake officials are considering moving an observation deck further inland to protect it from erosion. The area was closed off for safety concerns early this week. Overlook Beach Park has lost most of its beachfront over the years, said Mentor-on-the-Lake Mayor David Eva. This year’s high water levels and lack of ice cover on Lake Erie are taking the situation to extreme levels as the area around an overlook deck erodes. Service employees will assess the area when the weather improves, Eva said. That could be as early as this weekend or next week.

Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley is asking the city’s housing court to suspend the eviction of tenants who are suffering financially because of the coronavirus. In a letter to Judge W. Moná Scott, Kelley proposed pausing those evictions for 60 days. A housing court representative reached Tuesday said no decision has been made yet. City council is planning legislation for next week to formalize the request.

Help covering rent and mortgage payments is coming to small businesses in Mentor under a new grant program designed to help reopen the local economy. The Mentor Small Business Restart Program is focusing on small, local storefronts that had no opportunity to collect revenue during the shutdown, said Mentor’s Director of Economic Development and International Trade Kevin Malecek.

Cleveland expects two more years of federal oversight for its police department before being freed from what was meant to be a five-year consent decree. The city’s consent decree coordinator, retired judge Greg White, told city council’s safety committee Monday the city is not yet in compliance with the reforms included in its 2015 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. But the city has turned a corner, he said.

Cleveland Housing Court starts hearings on evictions and accepting new filings Monday morning for the first time since March. The court paused all hearings and new eviction filings as of March 18, so a flood of evictions could be headed to the court. But it won’t be clear for some time how many evictions the coronavirus pandemic caused in Cleveland, because the court set a limit of 125 filings per day.

Some kids, including kids here in Cleveland, have had serious complications thought to be linked to coronavirus infection. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine tries to describe what we know so far about this condition. University Hospitals’ Dr. Amanda Lansell was part of the study that looked at what’s known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C.

A recent coronavirus outbreak was traced to Put-in-Bay, where pictures showed large crowds of people not wearing masks. Ottawa County Health Commissioner Jerry Bingham said officials are working with businesses to educate them and make sure they are following protocols ahead of the July Fourth weekend. “We want people to enjoy their holiday, we want people to enjoy their time, but they need to do it safely,” Bingham said. He encouraged people to wear masks and stay at home if they have symptoms.