East Cleveland, Fairfax, Glenville,
Hough, Little Italy
and University Circle, written by citizen journalists
Better to be Taken? Is this a fair question? Is it better to be taken? Removed from your environment? Taken from the place you call home? Distant from family and friends? Is it better to be taken? Better to keep you safe? Lost in a system without any plans or directions Placing you with [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 16 May 2012
Famicos Foundation hosted students from Glenville High School last month for a Sustainability Awareness Day. The students, who are part of the “Table, Set, Go” program, set up displays and educated visitors about sustainability. D.J. Morris talked about portable gardens called Garden Soxx. Avil Wells talked about hydroponics, a method of growing plants in water without [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 15 May 2012
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
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
Ohio's Scholastic Chess Championship held April 1 in Richfield was very competitive. Horizon Science Academy finished in sixth place and student Jonathan Clinton placed ninth individually and won a trophy. The second team finished fifth in the lower division and won an award. The championship is getting tougher and tougher every year. This [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 10 April 2012
The Free Medical Clinic of Cleveland is closed weekends — and Saturday medical treatment is available there. Confused? Listen up. Since fall 2011, the original Free Clinic has housed a tenant every second and fourth Saturday: Case Western Reserve University’s Student Run Free Clinic (SRFC). It’s open to walk-ins from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The SRFC [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 06 April 2012
So far, eight young boxers have turned pro thanks to Renard Saffo. The 59-year-old is a graduate of Shaw High School in East Cleveland. He began boxing in 1973 and went on to win three Golden Gloves amateur boxing competitions. Saffo trained his first boxers in 1994 when he became assistant coach at the Glenville Recreation Center. He told NV [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 05 April 2012
Apply for a grant from Neighborhood Connections. Proposals are due at 5 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 10. Neighborhood Connections provides financial assistance to groups led by community members in the city of Cleveland and East Cleveland and funds projects that improve the quality of life in local neighborhoods. Groups do not need to be an official [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 07 March 2012
People fall off health insurance plans for all sorts of reasons. But, fortunately, in our community, Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services can catch them. There is no shortage of people to catch either. The 2010 census found that almost 50 million Americans and 1.5 million Ohioans had no health insurance that year. By now, those [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 01 February 2012
Neighborhood Voice regularly features local poets. Submit your poem to info@neighborhood-voice.com. When I first saw you God knows I didn’t have a clue To me what you would soon do Never did I anticipate the stirring inside that you would create With your character How me you would mentally stimulate And it caught me [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 27 January 2012
The Intergenerational School was the only school in Greater University Circle, and one of only two charter schools in Northeast Ohio, to receive an "Excellent with Distinction" rating from the Ohio Department of Education for the 2010-11 academic year, the most recent ratings available. But, Greater University Circle is also home to other highly-rated schools. The [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 04 January 2012
A new high school is attracting students from throughout the area who want to earn a high school diploma outside of a traditional classroom. Glenvllle's Langston Hughes High School opened last fall in a former bank building at East 105th Street and Superior Avenue. The school, part of a drop-out prevention program through EdisonLearning, accepts [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 04 January 2012
Parts of Ashbury Avenue received a $45,000 makeover thanks to an Urban Development Action Grant received by the City of Cleveland. The city also spent $250,000 to repave the road from East 105th Sreet to Lakeview Road, the entire length of the street. Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony [...]
Posted by: Robert Rozboril Posted on: 04 January 2012
America SCORES Cleveland is an after-school program for elementary school students that uses creative writing, sports and service to inspire children to "have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world." Young poets from the program performed their original works at the seventh annual America SCORES Cleveland Poetry SLAM in November at Cleveland State [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 04 January 2012
Check out the Cleveland Metropolitan School District's Parent University. Help your student succeed. The winter session starts Jan. 9 and includes workshops on everything from healthy cooking to raising leaders to filling out the FAFSA and helping students prepare for the Ohio Graduation Test. Classes take place at schools throughout the city. Registration is ongoing, [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 22 December 2011
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