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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.
  • 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

  • Community Health Improvement Plan seeks health and wellness for all the people in Cuyahoga County

    (Plain Press, July 2015) The Health Improvement Partnership (HIP) – Cuyahoga released the first ever, countywide Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) on June 11th at the Ariel International Center on E. 40th Street in Cleveland. The plan, many years in the making, was spurred along in response to a 2009 analysis of life expectancy in…

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    July 17, 2015

  • My MetroHealth, My Community Family Festival

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    July 17, 2015

  • St. Michael Archangel Parish

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    July 17, 2015

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