• Puerto Rican Parade celebrates culture and serves as vehicle for community outreach

    Puerto Rican Parade celebrates culture and serves as vehicle for community outreach (Plain Press, September 2012) Thousands of people lined the parade route on Superior Avenue from E. 13th to E.9th Street and from E. 9th down to the Cleveland Municipal Parking Lot to watch Cleveland’s annual Puerto Rican Parade on Sunday, August 5th. The…


  • New Towpath Trail

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, July 30, 2012; Scranton Road Peninsula Groundbreaking Ceremony, 1871 Scranton Road: Tim Donovan, Executive Director of Ohio Canal Corridor greets guests at the groundbreaking ceremony for a 2/3rd mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail which will include restoration of 2,800 feet of natural shoreline on the…


  • Ohio Canal Corridor supporters break ground for new towpath trail section on Scranton Rd Peninsula

    Ohio Canal Corridor supporters break ground for new towpath trail section on Scranton Rd Peninsula (Plain Press, September 2012) About 250 people gathered in a Scranton Peninsula field at 1871 Scranton on July 30th for a groundbreaking ceremony for a 2/3 mile stretch of the Ohio Canal Corridor trail and a Cuyahoga River Habitat Restoration…


  • Student dress code will remain in place

    Student dress code will remain in place (Plain Press, September 2012) The strict student uniform and dress code the Cleveland Metropolitan School District put in place in August 2007 remains policy for the 2012-13 academic year. The dress code was designed to eliminate what some perceived as a barrier to student learning. Taking a conservative…


  • New bus plan to shorten children’s walks to school this fall

    New bus plan to shorten children’s walks to school this fall (Plain Press, September 2012) Parents who have worried about the distance their children have to walk to catch transportation to school will be happy with the bus routing system the Cleveland Metropolitan School District has in place for the 2012-13 school year. Under the…


  • City of Cleveland welcomes proposals for new methods of managing municipal waste

    City of Cleveland welcomes proposals for new methods of managing municipal waste by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, May 2012) Cleveland City Council voted 15-2 at its April 9th meeting to pass an ordinance extending the deadline for Request for Information and Qualifications for various methods to manage municipal solid waste disposal to July 31, 2012.…


  • City of Cleveland welcomes proposals for new methods of managing municipal waste

    City of Cleveland welcomes proposals for new methods of managing municipal waste by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, May 2012) Cleveland City Council voted 15-2 at its April 9th meeting to pass an ordinance extending the deadline for Request for Information and Qualifications for various methods to manage municipal solid waste disposal to July 31, 2012.…