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  • Plain Press: Cleveland’s Westside Newspaper
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  • About: The Plain Press is an independent, nonprofit community newspaper serving the West Side neighborhoods of Cleveland, Ohio since 1971. The Plain Press covers neighborhood news not covered by the major media; gives critical support to the community (i.e. is an advocate, but criticizes when appropriate); covers grassroots issues and city, county, state and national issues that affect the community; provides self-help information and information about neighborhood services and events; and is a forum for discussion of community issues. The Plain Press distributes 21,000 newspapers monthly to over 500 locations. The primary distribution area ranges from Lake Erie on the north to the Upper Big Creek Valley on the south and from the Cuyahoga River on the east to W. 140th Street on the west. The distribution area includes the following Cleveland neighborhoods: Bellaire-Puritas, Brooklyn Centre, Clark Fulton, Cudell, Detroit-Shoreway, Edgewater, Jefferson, Ohio City, Old Brooklyn, Stockyard, Tremont, Westown, and West Boulevard neighborhoods.
  • Boys and Girls Club at Walton School offers an answer to students’ requests for their school

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2015) The Boys and Girls Club at Walton School, 3409 Walton, seems to offer the perfect answer to requests for improvements at the school made by Walton students in a meeting at the school just over two years ago. At the end of the 2012- 2013 school year, Walton…

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    August 29, 2015

  • West Side Boys and Girls Club works to keep students on track to graduate

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2015) On June 30th, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland held a graduation party for seniors who graduated from high school this past year. The West Side Boys and Girls Club, located on Trowbridge in the Clark Fulton neighborhood, participated in the graduation party. According to Gaelen Bell,…

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    August 29, 2015

  • St. Wendelin Parish and Prayer Garden

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    August 29, 2015

  • HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

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    August 29, 2015

  • Sidewalk art using drywall as chalk

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    August 29, 2015

  • Vietnam War Commemorative Partner Ceremony

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    August 29, 2015

  • Adaptive reuse of Templin-Bradley building provides 30 units of mixed income housed to Detroit Shoreway neighborhood

    (Plain Press, August 2015) At a June 25th Ribbon Cutting Ceremony held in a tent outside the Templin-Bradley Building at 5700 Detroit Avenue, Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization (DSCDO) Executive Director Jeff Ramsey announced the successful completion of an eight million dollar effort to convert the former corporate headquarters into “30-units of mixed-income rental housing…

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    August 29, 2015

  • EcoVillage Gateway way station brightens lot near W. 65th Rapid Station

    (Plain Press, August 2015) A two-year effort to transform a vacant lot into an attractive and environmentally friendly EcoVillage Gateway way station at 6009 Madison near the W. 65th Rapid Station, has reached it’s culmination. Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization (DSCDO) announced that it held a ribbon cutting on July 15th, attended by representatives of…

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    August 29, 2015

  • St. Rocco Early Childhood Learning Center

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    July 17, 2015

  • West Side Market threatened as customers from other businesses take over its traditional parking area

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, July 2015) A visit to the West Side Market on a recent weekday offered a demonstration of the parking problem. While the parking lot was full, the number of shoppers in the market did not come close to reflecting the number of cars in the parking lot. Vince Bertonaschi, a…

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    July 17, 2015

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