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  • Ohio City Shootout!

    RESIDENT TELLS SECOND DISTRICT POLICING COMMITTEE ABOUT BULLETS FIRED INTO HER HOME PHOTO BY BRUCE CHECEFSKY Tuesday, August 11, 2026; Second District Community Policing Committee meeting, OneHope NEO, 3202 Fulton Road: The Cleveland Division of Police Second District, led by Commander Timothy Maffo-Judd, holds monthly Community Policing Committee meetings on the second Tuesday of every…

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  • Power Outages

    CPP ADMITS WEAK INFRASTRUCTURE AND LACK OF MAINTENANCE UNDERMINE THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE POWER PHOTO BY BRUCE CHECEFSKY Wednesday, July 21, 2026; Urban Community School, 4909 Lorain Avenue, community meeting on recent power outages: (R-L) Cleveland Public Utilities Department director Martin Keane, Ward 7 Cleveland City Councilman Austin N. Davis, and Cleveland Public Power (CPP) Commissioner…

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  • Garden Walk Cleveland hosts annual tour (photos)

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Saturday, July 11, 2026; Garden Walk Cleveland, Monroe Street Cemetery and Green Space, 3207 Monroe Street: Hayden Bish, a board member of the Monroe Cemetery Foundation, leads a Garden Walk Cleveland tour of the cemetery grounds. PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Saturday, July 11, 2026; Garden Walk Cleveland, 3301 Chatham Avenue: This…

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  • South of Lorain Block Club seeks answers about Greenwood Pool closure

    STAFFING, POOL MAINTENANCE AND SPLASH GROUNDS DISCUSSED by Chuck Hoven    (Plain Press August 2026) The closing of Greenwood Pool was the topic residents of the South of Lorain Block Club came to discuss at a July 7th meeting at the offices of Ohio City Incorporated. At the meeting, block club members had an opportunity…

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  • Cleveland Public Library’s Book Nook offers free books at the West Side Market (photos)

    PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, June 13, 2026; Cleveland Public Library The Book Nook at the West Side Market, W. 25th and Lorain Avenue: The Book Nook is open on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. to give away free books to visitors of the West Side Market. PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG…

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  • Episcopal Diocese seeks community input on future of St. John’s Church

    PHOTO BY COREY MEADOR St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2600 Church Avenue: Renovations are underway inside the sanctuary. by Corey Meador    (Plain Press June 2026) A $400,000 project underway at St. John’s Episcopal Church sparks new life and opportunity into Cuyahoga county’s oldest consecrated building. On Church Avenue in the Hingetown neighborhood of Cleveland, many…

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  • In Memory: Lennie Stover, March 11, 1957- April 22, 2026

    PHOTO BY LORELEI MAMIE Sunday, October 5, 2025; Snake Hill Trail: Lennie Stover hikes the Snake Hill Trail with the Friends of Snake Hill and City Council candidate Nikki Hudson. by Greg Cznadel    (Plain Press June 2026) Lennie Stover was the man. As Brenda Theuer described him, “A mountain of a man with a…

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  • Stretch of Lorain Ave. adds cluster of new businesses

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, March 20,2026; Lorain Theater building, 4601 Lorain Avenue: Visible Voice Books, Hausfrau Record Shop in the Lorain Theater building and other nearby businesses are livening up a stretch of Lorain Avenue. (Plain Press April 2026) Last year’s move of Visible Voice Bookstore from Professor Avenue in Tremont to the Lorain…

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  • Clevelanders gather to demand justice for Renee Good

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, January 9, 2026; Candlelight vigil in memory of Renee Good, Market Square Park, W. 25th and Lorain Avenue: Civil Rights Lawyer Subodh Chandra, who formerly served as the Director of the City of Cleveland Law Department, says a New York Times frame by frame analysis of the murder of Renee…

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  • KeyBank Produce Arcade opens at West Side Market

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Saturday January 10, 2026; West Side Market’s Key Bank Produce Arcade: The first Saturday at the new Key Bank Produce Arcade which opened on Friday January 9th. Kerlos Salib, owner of the Habib’s Produce stand, offers some vegetables to a customer. On Friday January 9th the newly renovated KeyBank Produce Arcade…

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