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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.
  • Club Azteca: activists to meet with developers from the Bond Street Group to work out a way to honor the building’s legacy

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, March 19, 2021; Club Azteca, 5602 Detroit Avenue: In a February 25th article titled “Advocates want to save Detroit-Shoreway club with historic ties to Cleveland’s Hispanic community from wrecking ball” in cleveland.com, Eric Heisig reported on activists hopes of saving this building which for many years hosted celebrations and served as…

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    April 9, 2021

  • A bagpipe player celebrates St. Patrick’s Day in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Wednesday, March 17, 2021; W. 65th and Detroit Avenue: A bagpipe player celebrates St. Patrick’s Day in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood on a day when the traditional St. Patrick’s Day Parade was cancelled for the second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    April 9, 2021

  • A sign of Spring

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday March 22, 2021: Crocuses in bloom – a sign that spring has arrived in Cleveland.

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    April 9, 2021

  • April 2021 Plain Press Community Board

    April 2021 Community Board AFTER SCHOOL AFTER SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS: Youth, ages 18 and under, can visit any of the Neighborhood Resource and Recreation centers for free meals after 3:30 p.m.  Monday through Friday. Call for serving times: Clark, 664-4657; Cudell, 664-4183; Estabrook, 664-4149; Gunning, 420-7900; and Michael Zone, 664-3373. ARTS/THEATRE STATION HOPE: A virtual celebration of…

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    April 7, 2021

  • April 2021 Issue of the Plain Press – PDF

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    April 1, 2021

  • Quan Am Temple of Buddhist Cultural Center celebrates Lunar New Year — the year of the ox

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    March 7, 2021

  • The Repair Company celebrates 50 years on Madison Avenue

    The Repair Company celebrates 50 years on Madison Avenue Plain Press, March 2021         In February, Sandy Bozak, owner of The Repair Company at W. 103rd and Madison, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of her company. At a February 4th ceremony, Ward 15 Cleveland City Council Representative Jenny Spencer presented Sandy Bozak with a Council Resolution of…

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    March 7, 2021

  • Cleveland Women’s March Rally at Market Square Park

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    March 7, 2021

  • Cleveland City Council’s three women share their reflections on politics and public policy

    by Jack Barnes Plain Press, March 2021      On January 26th the Cuyahoga Democratic Women’s Caucus organized a “Conversation with Cleveland City Councilwomen” via Zoom hosted by its Chair, Cynthia Demsey. The hour-long event featured all three of the women on the 17-person Cleveland City Council reflecting on their paths to public service; on being women in…

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    March 7, 2021

  • Architectural historian provides additional information and corrections for February article on Madison Avenue

    To the editor: Plain Press, March 2021 I am submitting this letter in response to the version of the story about Madison Avenue that appeared in the printed version of the February 2021 issue of the newspaper. A historic house mentioned in the story – next door to Cleveland Lumber and sometimes known as “Twin Peaks” – includes…

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    March 6, 2021

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