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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.
  • Refugee Resource Center at St. Colman Parish welcomes families seeking new home in Cleveland

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON February 2026; Refugee Resource Center, Saint Colman Church Hall: Sister Rita Mary Harwood, SND (Sisters of Notre Dame), talks to guests about the Refugee Resource Center and how it operates. PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON February 2026; Refugee Resource Center, Saint Colman Church Hall: Sister Rita Mary Harwood, SND, distributes bags of…

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    April 1, 2026

  • OneHope NEO creates hope, trust, and relationships one event at a time

    PHOTO BY EDIE LE BOUTON Friday, August 29, 2025: One Hope NEO (Northeast Ohio), 3202 Fulton Road: Patrick Meidenbauer and Brandi Hill. Meidenbauer works with One Hope NEO to help identify integration points between organizations to maximize the impact on a region. Hill is One Hope NEO’s Community Development Program Manager. by Edie Le Bouton…

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    October 1, 2025

  • City Council approves funds for May Dugan refugee program

       (Plain Press May 2024) At its April 22nd meeting, Cleveland CityCouncil approved providing the May Dugan Center $50,000 in funding to provide services to refugees arriving in Cleveland. The funds will be used by the HIAS program (formerly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) which is “the Jewish humanitarian organization that provides critical services to…

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    May 1, 2024

  • Cleveland Public Theatre’s Station Hope pays homage to ancestors that escaped slavery

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    July 6, 2022

  • Advocates calling for City of Cleveland to take measures to slow traffic, cite traffic fatality on W. 50th Street

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, May 16, 2022; Cleveland City Council Meeting, Cleveland City Hall, 601 Lakeside Avenue: During the Public Comment period, Ward 15 resident Nora Rodriguez testified about a traffic problem on W. 81st Street just north of Madison. Rodriguez said cars don’t stop at the stop sign at W. 81st and Lawn Avenue. She…

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    June 8, 2022

  • Painting Our Neighborhood

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    October 6, 2021

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