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In February 2025, Kids’ Book Bank purchased the building on West Parkway in Cleveland’s Jefferson-Puritas area. The move...
11/19/2025

In February 2025, Kids’ Book Bank purchased the building on West Parkway in Cleveland’s Jefferson-Puritas area. The move expanded the operation from 5,500 square feet, in a building shared with other tenants, to 24,000 square feet, with a building of their own. The new quarters are handicap-accessible, including a restroom facility with a Universal Changing Table.

The move to the expansive quarters made more possible to take deliveries of large donations. Executive Director Natalie Friedl said, “We are very fortunate to have a very large donation of brand new books. Back in January, we were contacted by the Junior Library Guild of Columbus and they were ready to pulp 100,000 children’s books and asked if we could take them. If we had the space already, we could. So we reached out to our friends at Amazon who went down to Columbus in their trucks, picked up and stored the books until we secured the space and then they brought the books to us. So we were able to save and bring to Cleveland [these] beautiful diverse books.”

In mid-October, the Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank held a ribbon-cutting that opened a new home on Parkway Road. Let’s see how they’ve settled into their new location.

In early October, the Cleveland Neighborhood Progress unveiled the completion of its first renovated home in the Lee-Har...
11/18/2025

In early October, the Cleveland Neighborhood Progress unveiled the completion of its first renovated home in the Lee-Harvard neighborhood, as part of the organization’s Middle Neighborhood Initiative (MNI).

The newly renovated addition to the Lee-Harvard community is a two-story brick house that resides on Eldemere Ave. The home includes three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a new sunroom, a new roof, new windows and masonry repairs. Before the renovation, the home was missing shutters on its front windows, and the trim around the door needed to be repainted.

The home includes three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a new sunroom, a new roof, new windows and masonry repairs. Before the renovation, the home was missing shutters on its front windows, and the trim around the door needed to be repainted.

Earlier this month, the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland commemorated 175 years of impact on the Northeast Ohio community. ...
11/17/2025

Earlier this month, the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland commemorated 175 years of impact on the Northeast Ohio community. The religious community celebrated the anniversary with the launch of a new book, “Bonds of Charity,” by Richard Osborne.

“The Ursulines have been a quiet but powerful force for good in this city for nearly two centuries,” said Sister Laura Bregar, president of the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland. “This celebration is as much about the people we’ve served as it is about our own history.”

Read an excerpt from a new book detailing the history of the Ursuline Sisters in Cleveland.

On October 3rd – National College Radio Day, ironically – Ideastream and Cleveland State University announced that they ...
11/14/2025

On October 3rd – National College Radio Day, ironically – Ideastream and Cleveland State University announced that they were turning the student-run station WCSB 89.3 into JazzNEO, a new jazz radio station. While CSU and Ideastream said that the new partnership would create a home for jazz in Northeast Ohio as well as preprofessional opportunities for students, backers of WCSB said the sudden, hostile takeover was destroying a community-driven institution. What’s been lost in the coverage has been the jazz community’s reaction to this swift, polarizing change.

Recently, The Land spoke with a broad mix of jazz fans, musicians and promoters, who expressed deeply mixed feelings about the switchover of WCSB (now known as XCSB) to JazzNEO.

When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assig...
11/13/2025

When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a poem that would change the course of his life.

“Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky,” he read.

These opening lines, belonging to “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot seemed to be speaking directly to Metres.

“How can he read my mind? How does he know what it’s like to be me?” Metres thought as he read along.

When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a poem that would change the course of his life.

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11/11/2025

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Screams and bangs echoed inside Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment center, buried deep in a state forest. A mele...
11/11/2025

Screams and bangs echoed inside Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment center, buried deep in a state forest. A melee had erupted, with fighting in the hallways and between classrooms. Some children rushed outside to grab rocks. A teacher ushered her students into the cafeteria for safety, giving a lollipop to soothe one crying 11-year-old boy.

During the mayhem, another teacher texted her mother, pleading with her to call 911: “Call them. Call mom please.”

A year after taking over Mohican Young Star Academy, new owners and leadership face questions from workers, police and neighbors about its direction.

Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity has focused on Buckeye-Woodhill over the last 10 years or so, rehabbing homes and...
11/10/2025

Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity has focused on Buckeye-Woodhill over the last 10 years or so, rehabbing homes and cleaning up properties. Now, Habitat is building 15 homes on Elwell Avenue, a short street south of Buckeye and just east of the Buckeye-Woodhill intersection.

The $4.3 million development is called Pope Leo Village, envisioned and made possible in part by an anonymous donor. That same donor is helping to fund other Pope Leo Village projects in up to 18 other cities, including Chicago and Cincinnati.

Habitat expects that 11 homes will be finished by the end of this year and the remaining homes are scheduled for completion in 2027.

Hundreds of flights at the busiest airports in the U.S. are being scratched this weekend as airlines move forward with r...
11/08/2025

Hundreds of flights at the busiest airports in the U.S. are being scratched this weekend as airlines move forward with reducing air service due to the lingering government shutdown.

So far, the government-ordered slowdown across the airline industry that began Friday hasn’t caused any widespread disruptions.

But analysts warn that the upheaval will intensify and be felt far beyond air travel if the cancellations pick up and move closer to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Hundreds of flights at the busiest airports in the U.S. are being scratched this weekend. Airlines are moving forward with reducing air service due to the lingering government shutdown.

Eleven years after police killed her 12-year-old son, Samaria Rice thinks that a play about Tamir needs reviving more th...
11/06/2025

Eleven years after police killed her 12-year-old son, Samaria Rice thinks that a play about Tamir needs reviving more than ever.

The Black youth’s death at the hands of white Cleveland police officers in 2014 helped to spur the Black Lives Matter movement and police reforms in Cleveland and around the country. But now, Rice says, racism “is getting worse and worse and worse as long as this orange guy is in office. The country is in despair right now and outrage. It’s important that we show our resilience through the arts and any other entities that can open up that conversation and keep it going.”

"It’s important that we show our resilience through the arts and any other entities that can open up that conversation and keep it going.”

Amid public perception that Cleveland police target Black drivers, city officials have contracted with a data analytics ...
10/30/2025

Amid public perception that Cleveland police target Black drivers, city officials have contracted with a data analytics firm to help department leaders monitor potential bias and discrimination by officers.

The move follows a Marshall Project - Cleveland analysis that found police searched Black people more often than White people in stops in 2023.

More than 30 agencies, nonprofits and community organizations in Greater Cleveland are dedicated to securing temporary s...
10/29/2025

More than 30 agencies, nonprofits and community organizations in Greater Cleveland are dedicated to securing temporary shelter and permanent housing for the homeless, and to preventing folks from becoming homeless in the first place. Coordinating those efforts efficiently is no easy job.

LeVine Ross, as the new director of Cuyahoga County’s Office of Homeless Services, has been charged with that task. Her resume shows that she’s up for it.

"One thing I found is that prevention is key. How do we keep families from major crises?"

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