Tremont's historic Zion Church UCC has been transformed into 26 luxury apartments that preserve the ornate stained glass and other elements of the church's 135-year history.
Lora DiFranco enjoys activities that help her slow down and unplug. In fact, she's created an entire line of products—including her new collage kits—to help her customers occupy their minds during the pandemic.
Artist Lacy Talley began painting murals with social action messages after graduating from Kent State. As she continues her work she wants to make her art accessible all over Cleveland.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression, and that’s exactly why Deanna Fisher is passionate about making the Cedar Lee Mini-Park a place that makes visitors and residents fall in love at first sight with Cleveland Heights.
After more than two years, Stage 3 of the Towpath Trail Extension project—an urban stretch of 1.9 miles between the northern entrance to Steelyard Commons and Literary Avenue in Tremont—is complete and open to the public.
In 1923 entrepreneur Jim Brown built a house on Lake Erie in Euclid. The six-bedroom home, with accents imported from around the world, still stands proudly today and is on the market for $1.2 million.
As CMSD students prepare to start returning to school next week, officials are working with providers and nonprofits to ensure every student has access to a laptop or other device and has an internet connection at home.
In Lois Jeavons' 96 years, she has witnessed ignorance and divisiveness in everything from the invention of a polio vaccine to racism and social justice, to politics and the Cold War. She reflects on how her experiences spanning nearly 10 decades have taught her to be an activist and stand up for what she believes is right.
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, area homeless shelters have struggled to protect the homeless community from the virus. Their efforts have met with challenges, and seen some successes, while the fight continues.
After a successful launch this past June, The Buckeye Flame online weekly news publication covers both the struggles and the celebrations affecting the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.
The Cleveland Leadership Center in September will honor six innovators during the Spark 2020: Grit to Great leadership symposium. These six people accomplish amazing feats while often going unnoticed.
With shrinking populations and more community need, Lakewood and Shaker Heights School Districts are completing facilities master plans to accommodate students and residents—just in time to ponder the reopening of the schools during a pandemic.
Exponential growth in the middle of a pandemic? Taking a new Ohio City beer garden from concept to completion in the span of three weeks? These may seem like Herculean feats, but Saucy Brew Works seems to have found the secret sauce for success.
The Cuyahoga Human Rights Commission was formed in 2018 to protect the basic human rights of the LGBTQ community. Last week, the commission began accepting and enforcing discrimination complaints under the county's Anti-Discrimination Ordinance.
Healthare organizations, churches, and government agencies are working to bring pop-up testing sites to some of Cleveland's poorer neighborhoods, where access to testing, as well as healthcare, is often limited.
Need a job? Check out the latest edition of FreshWater Cleveland's “Who’s Hiring” series, where we feature growing companies with open positions, what they’re looking for, and how to apply.
Jacklynn Bosley has created a preschool where kids on the autism spectrum can get the early intervention they need for a successful start to their education paths.
Fahrenheit chef/owner Rocco Whalen feels the pain Cleveland has felt during the coronavirus, the murder of George Floyd, and the riots. But now, he looks to the future and hopes for better days in Cleveland and in the local restaurant industry.
Cleveland City Council declared racism a public health crisis last week. With 23 organizations supporting the resolution, the real work begins in wiping out inequities across the city and Northeast Ohio.