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  • Plain Press: Cleveland’s Westside Newspaper
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  • About: The Plain Press is an independent, nonprofit community newspaper serving the West Side neighborhoods of Cleveland, Ohio since 1971. The Plain Press covers neighborhood news not covered by the major media; gives critical support to the community (i.e. is an advocate, but criticizes when appropriate); covers grassroots issues and city, county, state and national issues that affect the community; provides self-help information and information about neighborhood services and events; and is a forum for discussion of community issues. The Plain Press distributes 21,000 newspapers monthly to over 500 locations. The primary distribution area ranges from Lake Erie on the north to the Upper Big Creek Valley on the south and from the Cuyahoga River on the east to W. 140th Street on the west. The distribution area includes the following Cleveland neighborhoods: Bellaire-Puritas, Brooklyn Centre, Clark Fulton, Cudell, Detroit-Shoreway, Edgewater, Jefferson, Ohio City, Old Brooklyn, Stockyard, Tremont, Westown, and West Boulevard neighborhoods.
  • Justice & Peace Coalition presents Justice and Peace Platform to Republican and Democratic national parties

    (Plain Press, August 2016) On July 21,2016, the last day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, a coalition of more than two-dozen organizations that sponsored the “People’s Justice & Peace Convention” on July 16 and 17 presented a “Platform” to representatives of the RNC. The Platform contains several hundred specific proposed laws, regulations…

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    August 1, 2016

  • Archwood UCC Fruit and Vegetable Sale

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    August 1, 2016

  • Painting in the Park Family Fun Day Festival

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    August 1, 2016

  • The MetroHealth System opens Farm Stand to bring fresh produce to the community

    (Plain Press, August 2016) The MetroHealth System hosted a grand opening ceremony on July 14th for the MetroHealth Farm Stand. The produce stand offers for sale fresh, local, seasonal and affordable food from local community gardens and farms to the community. The MetroHealth Farm Stand is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays,…

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    August 1, 2016

  • Little Free Library dedicated at Baltic Children’s Park

    (Plain Press, July 2016) Children in the neighborhood by Baltic Children’s Park will now be able to have a nearby source of books to read. A new Little Free Library was dedicated in the park at W. 108th and Baltic at a ceremony on Saturday June 4th. The park is just west of Louisa May…

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    July 6, 2016

  • Rejected parking garage could have made a big difference in alleviating emerging West Side Market parking crisis

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, July 2016) Early in this decade, the West Side Market Tenants’ Association, with the help of neighborhood residents, looked into the possibility of building a 600 space parking garage on the Hicks parking lot located just northeast of the West Side Market. A project overview fact sheet was produced which…

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    July 6, 2016

  • MetroHealth and Cleveland Metropolitan School District to open first of its kind high school

    (Plain Press, July 2016) (CMSD News Bureau) The MetroHealth System and Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) are partnering on a new school that leaders believe may be the only one in the country located within a hospital. The new Lincoln-West School of Science and Health will be based partly at the MetroHealth System’s main campus.…

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    July 6, 2016

  • MetroHealth CEO reports on progress and plans at annual stakeholders meeting

    (Plain Press, July 2016) On June 9th, at MetroHealth System’s annual stakeholders meeting, Dr. Akram Boutros, MetroHealth’s president and chief executive officer, told members of the MetroHealth family, “we are the resilient ones.” Boutros told those assembled at the Global Center for Health Innovation meeting for stakeholders, about a report given to the MetroHealth Board…

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    July 6, 2016

  • Ash Trees, W. 50th between Bridge and Franklin

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    July 6, 2016

  • Road to Hope, MetroHealth Medical Center

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    July 6, 2016

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