COVERING CLEVELAND’S WEST SIDE FOR 55 YEARS

Community Board

Community Board: November 2026

Churches

Architecturally significant piece of Old Brooklyn history ripped apart

Lynette Filips

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October 2026

Photos

Photo Gallery: Edgewater Park hosts annual Southeast Asian Festival

Deborah Rose Sadlon

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October 2026

Churches

Repairers of the Breach won't stay silent any more

Bruce Checefsky

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October 2026

Health

October’s real-life horror: rabies on the rise

Plain Press

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October 2026

Medicaid

Medicaid and SNAP recipients now required to meet work requirements

Che Gadison

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October 2026

News Analysis

Institutional memory lapse results in Cleveland students being short-changed

Chuck Hoven

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October 2026

Health

City of Cleveland launches Community Crisis Response Bureau to transform behavioral health emergency response

Plain Press

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October 2026

Churches

Repairers of the Breach urge participation in October 14 Moral Monday March

Tim Walters

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October 2026

Medicaid

Thousands face losing Medicaid coverage

Bruce Checefsky

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October 2026

October 2026 (Print Version)

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Brooklyn Centre

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Cudell

Detroit Shoreway

Edgewater

Jefferson

Near West Side

Old Brooklyn

Ohio City

Stockyard

Tremont

West Park

West Boulevard

Westown

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Near West Side

Ohio City Shootout!

Bruce Checefsky

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September 2026

West Boulevard

Food bank set to open West Side resource center next January

Abraham Kurp

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September 2026

West Boulevard

Damper’s Automotive says farewell after 74 years

Chuck Ackerman, +1

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September 2026

Churches

Plan for corner of Memphis and Pearl continues to evolve

Lynette Filips

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September 2026

Elections

Door-to-door combat: Precinct Captains’ ground war on voting

Bruce Checefsky

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September 2026

News Analysis

Community challenged to increase diversity of participants at Policing Committees

Chuck Hoven

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September 2026

Medicaid

Proposed Medicaid work-requirement rules explained

Plain Press

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September 2026

Trees

Hiking across the Southern Buckeye trail

Erik Ault

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September 2026

Blog Review

BLOG REVIEW: Polly Karr’s Substack reveals political intrigue surrounding local education

Plain Press

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September 2026

News Analysis

FirstEnergy profits whether your lights are on or not

Tristan Rader

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September 2026

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COVERING CLEVELAND’S WEST SIDE FOR 55 YEARS

Community Board: November 2026

Architecturally significant piece of Old Brooklyn history ripped apart

Photo Gallery: Edgewater Park hosts annual Southeast Asian Festival

Repairers of the Breach won't stay silent any more

October’s real-life horror: rabies on the rise

Medicaid and SNAP recipients now required to meet work requirements

Institutional memory lapse results in Cleveland students being short-changed

City of Cleveland launches Community Crisis Response Bureau to transform behavioral health emergency response

Repairers of the Breach urge participation in October 14 Moral Monday March

Thousands face losing Medicaid coverage

October 2026 (Print Version)

STORIES BY NEIGHBORHOOD

Bellaire-Puritas

Brooklyn Centre

Clark Fulton

Cudell

Detroit Shoreway

Edgewater

Jefferson

Near West Side

Old Brooklyn

Ohio City

Stockyard

Tremont

West Park

West Boulevard

Westown

PHOTO GALLERIES

Plain Press Issue 1: March 1971

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Ohio City Shootout!

Food bank set to open West Side resource center next January

Damper’s Automotive says farewell after 74 years

Plan for corner of Memphis and Pearl continues to evolve

Door-to-door combat: Precinct Captains’ ground war on voting

Community challenged to increase diversity of participants at Policing Committees

Proposed Medicaid work-requirement rules explained

Hiking across the Southern Buckeye trail

BLOG REVIEW: Polly Karr’s Substack reveals political intrigue surrounding local education

FirstEnergy profits whether your lights are on or not

Plain Press

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