• Community members weigh in on CMSD’s Building Brighter Futures plan

    by Chuck Hoven    (Plain Press December 2025) Over 150 community members gathered at Max Hayes High School on November 19th for the first of three Cleveland Municipal School District (CMSD) Board of Education meetings where the members of the public would have a chance to offer input into the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Building…


  • Cleveland Public Theatre hosts annual Day of the Dead celebration (photos)

    PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, November 1, 2025; Día De Muertos (Day of the Dead) 2025 celebration presented by Cleveland Public Theatre with Teatro Público de Cleveland and Día de Muertos Ohio; Cleveland Public Theatre Church Parish Hall, 6205 Detroit Avenue and surrounding area. PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, November 1, 2025; Día De Muertos…


  • December 2025 community board

    ARTS CLIENT ARTWORK DISPLAY PROGRAM: The Alcohol Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board is now accepting applications for our 2026 Client Artwork Display Program. This inspiring initiative showcases client art, highlights our provider agencies, recognizes the benefits of art therapy and celebrates recovery. It is open to Cuyahoga County residents receiving mental health…


  • November 4, 2025 – Unofficial Election Results

    (Plain Press December 2025) (Official results will not be available until November 25th at www.boe.cuyahogacounty.gov ) (Post Election Vote by Mail, Provisional and Post Election Day – not yet recorded by the Plain Press publication date) (Also see close election in Cleveland Ward 12 – if a recount is requested official results may be delayed)…


  • Trip to Montgomery commemorates Cleveland man murdered in 1911 over a handful of cherries

    by Randy Cunningham    (Plain Press December 2025) The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a project of the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama is a complex of sites dedicated to commemorating the black experience in America from slavery and segregation, up to today’s New Jim Crow of mass incarceration. I think it is…


  • City of Cleveland and community partners break ground on new senior apartments (photo)

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Wednesday, October 29,2025; Groundbreaking ceremony for Walton Apartments, just west of Fulton between Clark Avenue and Walton Avenue: Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Metro West Community Development Organization Executive Director Emily Lee joined about a dozen partners participating in the groundbreaking ceremony for Walton Apartments. The plans call for 52 apartments…


  • Clevelanders for Public Transit speaks out on proposed RTA service cuts

       (Plain Press December 2025) On Tuesday, November 18, during a presentation to the Board of Trustees on its 2026 operating budget, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) announced its plans to reduce bus service in 2026.    Service cuts are a life-threatening blow to a transit agency already struggling for relevance. People have…


  • May Dugan Center offers caring assistance to neighbors in need

    PHOTO BY EDIE LE BOUTON Wednesday, November 5, 2025; May Dugan Center, 4115 Bridge Avenue: May Dugan Executive Director Andy Trares. by Edie Le Bouton    (Plain Press December 2025) The May Dugan Center, 4115 Bridge Ave, was named in honor of the memory of May Dugan, a neighborhood lady who was a one-person advocate…


  • Ribbon cut for Art House’s Creative Garden and artist Brinsley Tyrrell’s Tableau – Art in Action

    by Greg Cznadel    (Plain Press December 2025) On the morning of October 23rd, 2025 in the midst of  nearly ten days of rain, it was 48 degrees in Brooklyn Centre as people gathered inside the The Art House, a steel arched Quonset hut, for the ribbon cutting ceremony of the Creative Garden and Brinsley…


  • Cleveland State hosts seminar on artificial intelligence (photo)

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Thursday, November 6, 2025; Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and the Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSM) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Seminar at Monte Ahuja College of Business at Cleveland State University (CSU): Amazon Web Services expert Dan Dugan explained how Artificial Intelligence and robots are already a major part of how…