• Bridge Beats and Treats Festival


  • High-quality preschools have openings for 2015-2016 school year

    SPACES AVAILABLE AT PRIVATE AND CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT CLASSROOMS (Plain Press, September 2015) There is good news for families in Cleveland who wish to send their 3- or-4-year-old preschoolers to a high-quality program this school year. According to PRE4CLE, Cleveland’s high-quality preschool expansion plan, private preschools and Cleveland Metropolitan School District classrooms that partner…


  • 20th Anniversary Celebration, Bigelow Garden


  • Palm Sunday Pony Ride


  • Cudell Improvement celebrates 40th annual meeting – highlights area as waterfront communit

    On January 21st, Cudell Improvement celebrated its 40th annual meeting with a gathering at Brennan’s Party Center on Triskett. In brief remarks at the start of the meeting, Ward 15 Councilman Matt Zone noted that a new grocer had committed to the proposed development at W. 117 and Clifton and while he couldn’t yet reveal…


  • Issue 4: What does passage mean for neighborhood schools?

    (Plain Press, November 2014) Issue 4 on the November 4th Ballot asks Cleveland voters to extend the bond issue originally passed by Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) voters in 2001. Since Issue 4 is a renewal, the district stresses it will not raise taxes. The CMSD notes that the bond issue will cost the owner…


  • Cleveland resident competes for title of Miss Ohio Teen USA

    (Plain Press, November 2014) Cleveland West Side resident, Audrianna Farris, Miss Cleveland Teen USA, will compete for the title of Miss Ohio Teen USA. The competition is slated for November 8-9th in Portsmouth, Ohio. Over 100 Ohio teens representing communities throughout Ohio will participate in the competition. The winner of the competition will hold the…


  • Standardized tests drive Cleveland Transformation Plan

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2014) Under current local, state and national educational policy, Clevelanders are being asked to measure their public and charter schools and judge their teaching staffs based on the scores on standardized tests. While the standardized tests may help to compare schools, they do little to help individual students to…


  • July 2014 Issue of the Plain Press

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  • Homeless women treated to salon services

    (Plain Press, July 2014) Forty-five homeless women received shampooing, cutting, and styling services during a daylong community service effort by the staff of the Beauty in You Salon at W. 98th and Denison. Women from the West Side Catholic Center, the Salvation Army Shelter and other local shelters came for the styling services offered for…