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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.
  • Catholic Students for Peace and Justice Climate Strike for Our Common Home

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    October 2, 2019

  • Ice Cream Social Celebrating 150 years of the Ursuline Sisters serving as teachers at both Malachi School and Urban Community School

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    October 2, 2019

  • St. Rocco Italian Festival

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    October 2, 2019

  • St. John Cantius Polish Festival

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    October 2, 2019

  • St. Emeric Hungarian Festival

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    September 11, 2019

  • Organist Robert Myers delights Music at the Market fans

    Organist Robert Myers delights Music at the Market fans by Colin Murnan (Plain Press, August 2019)The Beckerath Organ in Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church at W. 30thand Lorain Avenue, is a monolith of an instrument, containing 3,476 pipes arrayed in sixty-five ranks. These ranks are split into five different divisions, each division controlled by a separate…

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    August 12, 2019

  • Our Lady of Mount Carmel Procession

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    August 12, 2019

  • In Memory: Toney Green December 21, 1947- May 15, 2019 Near West Side neighbors remember a special friend to the community

    In Memory: Toney Green December 21, 1947- May 15, 2019 Near West Side neighbors remember a special friend to the community by Sarah Stoner (Plain Press, July 2019)    It’s been a wonder, over the last 10 years or so, to see the surge in affection for our dear Ohio City from the outside world. But…

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    July 11, 2019

  • Repairs continue at Denison Avenue UCC as the church receives extension from Cleveland Housing Court

    (Plain Press, June 2019)   On May 21stDenison Avenue United Church of Christ Pastor Nozomi Ikuta announced via Facebook that Cleveland Housing Court has given the church’s congregation “a little more time to finish repairs.” The church, featured in a photo in the May issue of the Plain Press, is continuing work restoring the exterior of the building.…

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    June 3, 2019

  • Beating Guns Tour seeks to transform guns into garden tools

        Beating Guns Tour seeks to transform guns into garden tools by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, May 2019)    Responding to the biblical passage in Isaiah 2: 4 “…and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks;…” the Beating Guns Tour arrived at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ on W.…

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    May 3, 2019

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