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Trip to Montgomery commemorates Cleveland man murdered in 1911 over a handful of cherries
by Randy Cunningham (Plain Press December 2025) The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a project of the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama is a complex of sites dedicated to commemorating the black experience in America from slavery and segregation, up to today’s New Jim Crow of mass incarceration. I think it is…
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Anti-eviction program helps residents in Northwest Neighborhoods
by Bob Sandrick, The Land (Plain Press October 2024) A nonprofit provider of affordable housing in Cleveland has devised an innovative and perhaps groundbreaking eviction-avoidance program that it hopes will serve as a model throughout the city and even the country. Northwest Neighborhoods, which owns and manages more than 350 rental apartment units…
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Northwest Neighborhoods announces Executive Director Kent Márquez
(Plain Press August 2024) The Board of Directors of Northwest Neighborhoods CDC is pleased to announce its selection of Bridget Kent Márquez (she/they) as the organization’s Executive Director, following one year of her interim executive directorship. Under Kent Márquez’s leadership, a spokesperson for Northwest Neighborhoods says the nonprofit has evolved as an innovative provider of affordable housing and…
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American Institute of Architects Cleveland hosts 2022 Sandfest at Edgewater Beach – raises funds for scholarships
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, August 6, 2022, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Cleveland Sandfest, Edgewater Beach: Ten teams competed in a sandcastle and sand sculpture contest. This Route 66 sign was a part of Vocon’s entry in the contest titled “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” which won the prize for Best Sculpture. The…
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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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Council of Cleveland Neighborhoods hosts mayoral candidates’ forum at Edgewater Park’s pavilion
Council of Cleveland Neighborhoods hosts mayoral candidates’ forum at Edgewater Park’s pavilion by Bruce Checefsky The Council of Cleveland Neighborhoods (CCN) sponsored a Candidates’ Forum with mayoral prospects Ross DiBello, Basheer Jones, Kevin Kelley, Dennis Kucinich and Zack Reed on Tuesday, July 27, at the West Pavilion on the upper level of Edgewater Park. CCN…
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