• Plain Press 2025 fundraiser



  • Neighborhood and Community Media Association meets with Mayor Justin Bibb

         PHOTO BY MARIE ZICKELFOOSE Thursday, February 13, 2025; Mayor Justin Bibb’s Roundtable with members of the Neighborhood and Community Media Association of Greater Cleveland, at WOVU 95.9 FM Radio Station, 7201 Kinsman Road: Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb joins with members of local community media organizations in a group photo. (Plain Press March 2025) On…


  • In Memory  — Tom Sheehan

    March 11, 1957 – April 20, 2023 PHOTO FROM THE PLAIN PRESS ARCHIVES September 3, 2017:  Tom Sheehan enjoys a meal at the St. John Cantius Festival. Tom Sheehan, who served as the Plain Press advertising representative for over twenty years, passed away on April 20, 2023. Due to declining health, Tom spent the last…


  • Plain Press 2022 fundraising letter and donation form

    November 2022 Dear Plain Press Readers and Supporters, This year marks the 51st anniversary of the award-winning* community newspaper, the Plain Press. A free community newspaper founded in 1971, the Plain Press continues to present issues and community news to residents of Cleveland’s west side. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Plain Press continued its mission…


  • December 2021 Plain Press – PDF


  • 2021 Plain Press 50th Anniversary Fundraiser


  • In Memory

    Michael O’Brien 1945-2021 (Plain Press, November 2021)                  Michael O’Brien, a librarian turned bookseller, came to the Near West Side as part of the Catholic activist movement to the neighborhood in the early 1970s and joined the Thomas Merton Community living in their house on W. 38th and Clinton.      O’Brien was the proprietor of the Six Steps Down…



  • Industry changes over time, some still survives on Madison Avenue

    by Alana Whelan (Plain Press, February 2021)             Madison Avenue has largely been a hub for industry and residential housing, both dating back to the 1890s, when the National Carbon Co. office was built at W. 117th Street.     Madison Avenue stretches all the way from W. 58th Street in Cleveland, into Lakewood, and ends perpendicular with Rocky…