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KeyBank Produce Arcade opens at West Side Market
PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Saturday January 10, 2026; West Side Market’s Key Bank Produce Arcade: The first Saturday at the new Key Bank Produce Arcade which opened on Friday January 9th. Kerlos Salib, owner of the Habib’s Produce stand, offers some vegetables to a customer. On Friday January 9th the newly renovated KeyBank Produce Arcade…
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Historic buildings still standing at Pearl and Memphis
by Lynette Filips The months (and years) go by quickly and thus another month has passed with seemingly nothing having moved forward with the projected demolition of the doomed buildings in the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation’s (OBCDC’s) revitalization plan for the northwest corner of Memphis Ave. and Pearl Rd. Sheets of new plywood…
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Fairview Park cold case is still cold
Authorities are still looking for any information to help find out what happened to the teenage girl that went missing in 1977 from Fairview Park. Yvonne Regler went missing from a Sunoco gas station located on Lorain Road. She was a resident of North Olmsted. It was early afternoon on August 8th when she…
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Cleveland Fell in National Cultural Standing, Report Says
by Bruce Checefsky Cleveland ranked 50th overall and 23rd among large communities in the 2025 Southern Methodist University (SMU) Arts Vibrancy Ranking. The SMU index measures arts supply, demand, public support, cost of living, and population size. In past years, Cleveland reached as high as 12th among large communities, yet it falls behind for…
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Enough is Enough: People Before Profits!
(Plain Press January 2026) To the editor: Here we go again spending gobs of taxpayer money with high-priced consultants to decide how Cleveland’s lakefront might be developed. And like ravenous hogs at the overflowing trough of public money, private interests are scrambling breathlessly to find ever more creative and clandestine ways to gorge themselves…
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Pilgrim Church in Tremont hosts Unsilent Night (photo)
PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Friday, December 12, 2025; UNSILENT NIGHT sponsored by Pilgrim Church, Lincoln Park Gazebo: Clevelanders gathered at the gazebo in Lincoln Park in Tremont to participate in a walk through the neighborhood while listening to composer Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night on their cell phones. Participants each selected a track to stream on…
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Ohio hemp law designed to ramp up incarceration rates for private prison industry
by Daryl Davis (Plain Press January 2026) Governor Michael DeWine and the Ohio Republican majority in the legislature have attacked the hemp industry in Ohio with legislation that will re-criminalize hemp products such as hemp beverages, gummies, chocolates and vapes and place additional restrictions on recreational marijuana use. Promoting this legislation looks like a…
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January 2026 community board
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS HOMEWORK HELP AT THE LIBRARY: All K-12 students can receive free help with their homework at select branches of the Cleveland Public Library, including the Fulton Branch (3545 Fulton Rd., 216-623-6969), the South Branch (3096 Scranton Rd., 216-623-7060), and the West Park Branch (3805 W 157 St, 216-623-7102). The help is available 4pm-5:30pm,…
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Documentary airs in recognition of history Cleveland’s “Shock Theater”
IMAGE CREATED BY KEVIN KELLY This January marks the 63rd anniversary of Shocker Theater where Ernie Anderson as the host “Ghoulardi” offered commentary on featured horror shows from 1963 to 1966 on WJW-TV8 in Cleveland. (Plain Press January 2026) January 18, 2026, marks the 63rd anniversary of Shock Theater. The show aired in 1963, at 11:20…
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