East Cleveland, Fairfax, Glenville,
Hough, Little Italy
and University Circle, written by citizen journalists
What’s up Glenville? This is another twisted-tale in the hood. My mother used to say “Let me clear my throat” when she had something to get off her chest. So Glenville can I clear my throat? We got way too many churches in Glenville, but they are not doing a whole lot in our [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 11 May 2012
Neighborhood Solutions Summit Thursday, May 17th 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tudor Arms Hotel 10660 Carnegie Ave. Please join Neighborhood Progress, Inc., the Cleveland Neighborhood Development Coalition, Enterprise Community Partners, and the city of Cleveland for an important community dialogue about our neighborhoods. We will reflect on our successes and discuss a changing environment. A [...]
Posted by: tobrien Posted on: 10 May 2012
Eleanor Squire Library Spring Book Sale Mark your calendar for our Annual Spring Book Sale from Friday, May 25th thru Sunday, May 27th. Browse though thousands of books that include not only horticulture and gardening titles, but literature, children’s, history, art, religion, fiction, and sciences. Rare and 1st editions, prints, magazines, CD’s & vinyl. No [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 07 May 2012
I have two children in Cleveland schools and I worry that we're setting our kids up to fail. The new juvenile detention center in the Fairfax community bothers me. The school district's budget cuts bother me. It’s a frustrating problem. Nonetheless, complaining neither adds nor subtracts any of the facts on this matter. I want [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 04 May 2012
When you wander into Diana Cooks’ Second Home Salon, 12910 Larchmere, you'll find yourself surrounded by one-of-a-kind home accents and fine furnishings that are looking for their “second home.” You'll also find yourself playing a role in Diana's personal campaign to reuse, repurpose, and refurbish the world's goods and help decrease our collective carbon footprint. [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 23 April 2012
PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS MidTown Cleveland, Inc. is soliciting proposals from qualified firms interested in providing professional services that include, but are not limited to the complete design and engineering of a new Cleveland 3rd District Police Station and Citywide Police Dispatch and Communications Facility, to be located at 4501 Chester Ave., Cleveland, [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 16 April 2012
As the tax deadline approaches, PNC Bank has teamed up with local partners to provide free assistance for low-income tax filers on “Super Saturday.” That's this Saturday, April 14, at the Cuyahoga Community College Technology Learning Center, Room 153 as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. The Technology Learning Center is at 2900 [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 13 April 2012
Add Your Business Here 216-229-8769 Circle East University Circle Luxury Town Homes circleeasttownhomes.com 216-200-8220 From Me to You Sandwiches and Pies We're at The Lancer and Whitmore's Breakfast sandwiched delivered Toni White 440-479-4801 twhite515@ gmail.com Key Bank Linda Kicman Chester E. 105 & Cleveland Clinic Branch Manager, Vice President Linda_B_Hickman @ keybank.com 216-707-6071 800-539-2968 Sping [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 05 April 2012
PNC announced plans last week to create the “PNC Fairfax Connection,” a new community resource center in Cleveland’s historic Fairfax neighborhood. The space will offer residents and business owners a variety of resources, from education programs and online resources to events and unique local cultural programs. “PNC’s goal is to provide a new, innovative [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 28 March 2012
On Wed., March,14, Commodore Place Apartments held its first annual Chili Cook-off Fundraiser. The proceeds will go towards a summer trip that will benefit all the residents who attended the cook-off Toya A. Rogers, the new service coordinator in the apartment building at Euclid Avenue and Ford Drive, got the idea from the monthly Women's [...]
Posted by: LIngram Posted on: 27 March 2012
Veyonne Washington is turning her passion for children and her community into a career. January marked the one-year anniversary of her store Grow Outs Resale Shop, 12206 Larchmere Blvd. After 12 years of running a child care center out of her house as her own children grew up, Washington decided she needed another challenge. She [...]
Posted by: Robert Rozboril Posted on: 11 March 2012
In the midst of the stylists and nail techs at A Touch of Rain & Cut Loose Salon and Spa last month stood MetroHealth pediatrician Dr. Robert Needlman. He came to the salon Feb. 11 with a dietician and his homemade vegetarian chili and set up shop in the lobby to answer questions about health issues. The two-hour-long conversation with [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 07 March 2012
East Cleveland is doing better than I’ve seen it do in my 20 years of living here. On Feb. 18, I attended Mayor Gary Norton’s State of the City address to learn about our progress. He spoke to a packed house in the Greg L. Reese auditorium of the East Cleveland Public library. Norton [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 07 March 2012
While my pickup truck has in excess of 110,000 miles on it, it still looks and runs excellent … and it’s a good thing it does since I have no plans to ever replace it. This one will have to last me to the onset of my dotage. I plan to be buried in it. [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 07 March 2012
My name is Channon Conner. I attend Health Careers Campus at Martin Luther King Jr. High School. Cookies 4 College is pretty much how it sounds: it’s me selling cookies to pay my way for college. I have been applying, but haven’t received a scholarship yet; so I began to worry. My nickname is Cookie, my favorite character is even Cookie [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 07 March 2012
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