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  • Locally owned shops create a unique flavor in the West Side Market District

    by Howard Primer (Plain Press, June 2011) The owner of Salty Not Sweet wasn’t sour on her location near the Beachland Ballroom on the East Side; it’s just that Ohio City was where she wanted to be all along. “When this space came up, it was ‘See ya Collinwood.’ This is where I’d rather be,”…

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  • Buildings on Lorain Avenue are linked to better the West Side Catholic Center

    by Amanda Duncan (Plain Press, June 2011) Many a pedestrian walking along Lorain Avenue at W. 32nd Street has wondered what the story was behind the thin modern structure linking two buildings, one labeled Moriah. Clearly it’s not wide enough to occupy, making it the grounded version of a skyway. The two buildings on Lorain…

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  • Ohio City celebrates Cleveland’s Artisan Neighborhood, at its annual meeting

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, May 2011) About eighty residents and stakeholders gathered at the St. Ignatius High School Breen Center for the annual meeting of Ohio City Incorporated. Ohio City neighbors mingled in the lobby enjoying food prepared by the Touch Supper Club and were entertained by the Singers Club of Cleveland prior to…

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  • Great Lakes Brewing Company ales score at 2011 World Beer Championships

    (Plain Press, April 2011) Great Lakes Brewing Company (GLBC), located on Market Avenue in Ohio City, announced that three of its ales received gold medals at the 2011 World Beer Championships conducted by the Beverage Testing Institute of Chicago. The award winning ales were Commodore Perry India Pale Ale, Burning River Pale Ale and Conway’s…

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  • Garrett Morgan student receives Student of Integrity Award

    (Plain Press, January 2010) Anna Lester, a student at the Cleveland Municipal School District’s Garrett Morgan School of Science in the Ohio City neighborhood, was one of four Greater Cleveland students to receive a Student of Integrity Award from the Better Business Bureau. The Better Business Bureau says the awards are given to “high school…

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