PHOTO BY ERIK AULT

Tuesday, July 11, 2023; United Bank Building; 2012 W. 25^th; Tanisha Caravello, a transplant from the West Coast to the Clark-Fulton neighborhood, is often the only one seen who rides her bike to the building. When asked her motivation, she responded, “I like to feel like I’m part of my environment, rather than being shut off from the outside, cooped up in a box on the way to work.”

PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG

Saturday, July 15, 2023; Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Italian Festival, 6828 Detroit Avenue:  Server Sofia brings Italian fare to festival guests.

PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG

Sunday, July 16, 2023; Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish’s procession through the neighborhood: Parishioners carry a float with a statue of St. Anthony carrying a child.

PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG

Sunday, June 25, 2023, Clifton Boulevard between W. 115^th an W. 117^th Streets, Edgewater Neighborfest: A vendor at Leo’s Lemonade offering craft mocktails to festival goers, gives a thumbs up.

PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG

Sunday, July 16, 2023; Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish’s procession through the neighborhood: Parishioners carry a float with statue of Mary and the Christ child in the procession.

PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN

Saturday, June 24, 2023; William Dean Howells Junior High Reunion, Fairview Park between Franklin and Woodbine: Students who attended William Dean Howells Junior High School from 1966 through 1977 gathered for a reunion. They were joined by Dr. Stephen Sroka, who taught at the school in the 1970s, and Chris Warren of the Plain Press. William Dean Howells was one of the few integrated schools prior to the implementation of the desegregation order in 1979. Students from segregated elementary schools (Kentucky and Mcguffey) went to William Dean Howels on Woodbine for their junior high school years. Chris Warren said students largely from Stroka’s classes at William Dean Howells wrote a column in the Plain Press in the 1970s called Youth Speak Out.

PHOTO BY BRUCE CHECEFSKY

Monday, July 10, 2023; Cleveland City Hall, 601 Lakeside Avenue: Molly Martin, Campaign Manager, People’s Budget Cleveland (PBCLE),has a press conference on the steps of Cleveland City Hall as they deliver petitions with 10,582 signatures from Clevelanders who want to see a People’s Budget on the ballot this November. The petition drive was successful and Cleveland voters will get to weigh in on the issue in November.