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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.
  • Pittsburgh Pirate Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente

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    September 6, 2017

  • Efforts underway to renovate and restore historic Brookside Stadium to playable condition

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.  Sunday, October 10, 1915, Brookside Park: White Autos beats Omaha Lexus 11 to 6 in front of an estimated crowd of 115,000. Efforts underway to renovate and restore historic Brookside Stadium to playable condition by Darren T. Hamm Plain Press Contributor Similar to many ballparks across North America,…

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    January 10, 2014

  • Lincoln West bests Marshall, heads to Senate Championship game

    by Anthony Gray (Plain Press, June 2011)  The Lincoln West Wolverine baseball team beat the John Marshall Lawyers 7-3 in a May 10th game between the two teams competing at Brookside Park for the right to go to the Senate Championship. Over 200 people in attendance at the game witnessed the first meeting of the…

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    June 1, 2011

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