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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.
  • Poverty growth in Cleveland neighborhoods continues

    CHILD POVERTY GROWS IN ALL NEIGHBORHOODS SERVED BY PLAIN PRESS by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, October, 2016)       Despite the many community development projects in Cleveland neighborhoods, the poverty rate in Cleveland was estimated to be higher in 2012 than it was in the year 2000. The 2000 Census listed the poverty rate in Cleveland at…

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    October 12, 2016

  • St. Rocco Parish Festival

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    October 12, 2016

  • October 2016 Plain Press – PDF

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    October 1, 2016

  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland robotics program launched by Quake Energy grant

    (Plain Press, September 2016) Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland (BGCC) new LEGO robotics program is designed to inspire innovative thinking and career readiness among members. A $5,000 investment by Quake Energy, an Ohio natural gas supplier, is allowing BGCC the program in partnership with Northeast Ohio Robotics Alliance. BGCC intends to form up to…

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    September 20, 2016

  • Stockyard, Clark Fulton & Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office gets new name

    (Plain Press, September 2016) After a vote by community residents and stakeholders, the Stockyard, Clark Fulton & Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office has changed its name. The new name is the Metro West Community Development Organization.

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    September 20, 2016

  • September 2016 Plain Press – PDF

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    September 3, 2016

  • The MetroHealth System opens Farm Stand to bring fresh produce to the community

    (Plain Press, August 2016) The MetroHealth System hosted a grand opening ceremony on July 14th for the MetroHealth Farm Stand. The produce stand offers for sale fresh, local, seasonal and affordable food from local community gardens and farms to the community. The MetroHealth Farm Stand is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays,…

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    August 1, 2016

  • MetroHealth and Cleveland Metropolitan School District to open first of its kind high school

    (Plain Press, July 2016) (CMSD News Bureau) The MetroHealth System and Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) are partnering on a new school that leaders believe may be the only one in the country located within a hospital. The new Lincoln-West School of Science and Health will be based partly at the MetroHealth System’s main campus.…

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    July 6, 2016

  • MetroHealth CEO reports on progress and plans at annual stakeholders meeting

    (Plain Press, July 2016) On June 9th, at MetroHealth System’s annual stakeholders meeting, Dr. Akram Boutros, MetroHealth’s president and chief executive officer, told members of the MetroHealth family, “we are the resilient ones.” Boutros told those assembled at the Global Center for Health Innovation meeting for stakeholders, about a report given to the MetroHealth Board…

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    July 6, 2016

  • Road to Hope, MetroHealth Medical Center

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    July 6, 2016

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