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Open letter urges Mayor Bibb to save Cudell Commons
To the Editor: (Plain Press February 2024) Dear Mayor Bibb and Area Leaders: We are writing to you to voice our concerns about Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s plans to build a new Marion Seltzer Elementary School on what is now parkland at Cudell Commons Park, land that was gifted to the City of Cleveland…
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Cudell residents save historic trees for now
PHOTO BY MARY JO HOVEN Monday, September 4, 2023; Cudell Commons Park, W. 98th Street, just North of Madison Avenue: A view of the Bald Cypress tree from below. The tree is one of about forty mature trees that Friends of Cudell Commons Park would like to save from being torn down to make way…
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Protesters urge Board of Education to save trees at Cudell Commons Park
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, August 22, 2023; Cleveland Metropolitan School Board Meeting; East Professional Center, 1349 E. 79th; Faouzi Baddou, Nikki Hudson and James Pieknik, Friends of Cudell Commons Park, protesting the planned demolition of a historic cypress tree in the Cudell neighborhood. by Chuck Hoven The Friends of Cudell Commons Park came…
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Residents Rally to save historic trees
PHOTO BY CASANDRA VASU Cudell Commons Park, W. 98th Street, North of Madison: The Cleveland Metropolitan School District plans to build a new Marion C. Seltzer school in what is now Cudell Commons Park. Plans call for eliminating trees to make way for the new school building. This Bald Cypress is one of the mature…
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Cleveland Schools’ Segment 8 taking shape
by Erik Ault (Plain Press, November 2022) Plans for renovation and new construction of several schools on Cleveland’s west side are finalizing. The Segment 8 construction program affects the Marion C. Seltzer, Clark, Joseph M. Gallager and Lincoln West schools. Several community meetings have been presented to give updates about the progress of this…
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The senior appreciation project, ONE LOVE, brings senior citizens together to strengthen sense of community
PHOTO BY BETTY SPRINGER Sunday, August 28, 2022; ONE LOVE, Senior Appreciation Project’s Enchanted Evening with Joy, A Place for Us, W. 117th and Madison Avenue: Joy is ready to provide an evening of entertainment. She brought joy to senior citizens attending the event singing a wide variety of songs and engaging those in attendance…
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New Neighborhood Housing Court Kiosk opens at the South Branch Library
New Neighborhood Housing Court Kiosk opens at the South Branch Library by Bruce Checefsky Plain Press, August 2022 Cleveland Housing Court and Cleveland Public Library have teamed up to bring the court to the community. Starting this month, the new Neighborhood Housing Court Kiosk at the South Branch of the Cleveland Public Library, located at…
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