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  • Participants in the Great Lake Erie Boat Float test seaworthiness of their crafts

    (Plain Press, October 2014) For the sixth year in a row, the Great Lake Erie Boat Float offered the opportunity for those concerned about the environment to design and test the seaworthiness of boats made from recycled materials. Participants in this year’s Great Lake Erie Boat Float, held on September 6th at Edgewater Park, had…

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  • Tremont’s Day and Night Music Festival

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  • Madison’s Pathway Garden of All Seasons brightens corner of W. 105th and Madison

    (Plain Press, September 2014) Neighborhood residents have transformed the corner of West 105 and Madison into the Madison’s Pathway Garden of All Seasons. The effort to change a vacant lot into a flower garden began in 2010 when W. 105th Street resident Clarissa Thompson approached Cudell Improvement Executive Director Anita Brindza to seek permission to…

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  • Juveniles break into bicycle shop, while owner volunteers at Taste of Tremont

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, September 2014) A dozen new and used bicycles were stolen from Shaker Cycle at W. 5th and Jefferson in the Tremont neighborhood. Shaker Cycle’s owner, Mitch Paul, says the theft occurred on July 20th while he was helping out at Taste of Tremont offering a secure location for guests to…

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  • Environmental cleanup planned for W. C. Reed Playfields

    (Plain Press, June 2014)An environmental cleanup of the William C. Reed Playfields, a 12-acre park at W. 15th and Denison, will begin in mid-June and plans call for the cleanup to be completed by August. The United States Environmental Protection Agency made a presentation on cleanup plans at a May 20th Community Meeting held at…

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