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  • Madison Ave. Community Garden @ Story holds ribbon cutting

    PHOTO COURTESY OF SCHWELIK STUDIOS Saturday, May 17, 2025; Ribbon cutting for Madison Avenue Community Garden @ Story, 9909 Madison Avenue in the Cudell neighborhood: Diab Dar-Issa, garden leader and member of Coalition for a Better Cleveland, cuts the ribbon to mark the opening of the community garden.    Madison Avenue Community Garden @ Story,…

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  • Programs offer leadership training

      PHOTO COURTESY OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (CDCLP) Community Development leaders from the Cleveland area participate in a session on real estate. The CDCLP is looking for leaders interested in joining its 2025 cohort.    (Plain Press July 2025) If you are passionate, committed and dedicated to taking an active role in improving…

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  • History shows that nutrition education should play a greater role in efforts to prevent lead poisoning

    by Chuck Hoven    (Plain Press July 2025) In a June 11th Opinion piece in The Plain Dealer titled “No more delays or excuses. Clean up the toxic lead now – before more kids are poisoned”, The Plain Dealer editorial board reproduced a chart from the City of Cleveland that shows “Nearly one in five…

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  • Legal Aid: Buyers beware when purchasing a used vehicle

    by Tonya Sams    (Plain Press July 2025) Buying a car is a big purchase and consumers should be extremely mindful when it comes to buying a used car. The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland has some advice on what consumers should think about before heading to the nearest used car dealership.    The first…

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  • Student art shines at the 2025 Urban Bright Arts-in-Education Exhibition

    PHOTO BY EDIE LE BOUTON Thursday, May 22, 2025; Urban Brights Arts-in-Education Exhibition, Art House, 3119 Denison Avenue: Art House Executive Director Laila Voss provided a tour of the art created by children in the Urban Brights Arts-in-Education program. PHOTO BY EDIE LE BOUTON Thursday, May 22, 2025; Urban Brights Arts-in-Education Exhibition, Art House, 3119…

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  • Fact checking corrects misinformation about history of Pearl & Memphis corner

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN German United Evangelical Church of Brighton, Ohio, built in 1853 and replaced in 1904.  This little frame church faced Columbus Rd. (today’s Pearl Rd.) at the northwest corner of Mill St. (today’s Memphis Ave.) PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN St. Luke’s Evangelical…

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  • Dedication of memorial stone marks beginning of promised improvements at Harmody Park

    PHOTO BY GREG CZNADEL Thursday, May 22, 2025; dedication of Harmody Park memorial stone, on Plymouth Road between Mayview Avenue & South Hills Drive in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood: (L-R): Ellen, daughter of Councilman Harmody (to whom park is dedicated) with Alexandria (Alex) Nichols, new Director of Cleveland Parks and Recreation (2024); and Ward 12 Cleveland…

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  • Library and Northwest Neighborhoods break ground for new Walz Branch, senior housing

                  (Plain Press July 2025) On Friday, June 6th the Cleveland Public Library and Northwest Neighborhoods Community Development Organization broke ground on the Walz Library-Karam Senior Living project at 7918 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood. The new development promises to bring to the neighborhood a new state-of-the-art library branch and affordable senior…

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  • New Goodwill store set to open at W 65th and Franklin (photo)

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, May 10, 2025; Northwest corner of W. 65th and Franklin Avenue: Goodwill announces it will open a store this summer at this location. The building has housed a few businesses over the years, most recently a Rite Aid drug store which closed its doors in September of 2024.

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  • New Gallagher School set to open in time for 2025-’26 school year (photo)

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, May 10, 2025; Joseph M. Gallagher School, Southwest corner of W. 65th and Franklin Avenue: The newly rebuilt Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Kindergarten through Grade Eight Joseph M. Gallagher School will reopen in August in time for the 2025-26 school year.

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