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Derek Alvez

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Sports Reporter at Staten Island Advance

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  • 1 month ago | cleveland.com | Derek Alvez

    PromUpdated: May. 18, 2025, 11:13 a.m.|Published: May. 18, 2025, 11:02 a.m.Prom 2025: Stow-Munroe Falls High School celebrates at Kent State University (73 photos)By Derek Alvez | special to cleveland.comKENT, Ohio – Stow-Munroe Falls High School celebrated its senior prom Saturday evening at the Kent State University Ballroom. More than 400 students donned their best with a Black Tie Affair theme, while grooving to the tunes pumped out by SMV Entertainment.

  • 1 month ago | cleveland.com | Derek Alvez

    PromUpdated: May. 11, 2025, 1:58 p.m.|Published: May. 11, 2025, 1:47 p.m.Prom 2025: Cuyahoga Falls High School (77 photos)AKRON, Ohio – Cuyahoga Falls High School celebrated its junior-senior prom Saturday night, held at The University of Akron. The Jean Hower Taber Student Union Grand Ballroom was the venue, where more than 400 Black Tigers took to the dance floor for an evening of turning it up, under the spell of Black Tie Entertainment.

  • 2 months ago | silive.com | Derek Alvez

    Artist Baruti Tucker, a native Staten Islander, who painted a 20-foot, 1,000-pound mural golf tee structure commemorating Black caddies to coincide with The Masters, will make his national television debut Saturday morning at 8 on CNN’s First Of All With Victor Blackwell. The monument titled, “Augusta’s African American Champion Caddies,” was unveiled a week ago on the grounds of the Sand Hills Community Center, within playing range of Augusta National Golf Club -- host of The Masters.

  • Nov 16, 2024 | silive.com | Derek Alvez

    (Editor’s note: On the eve of a family memorial for George Kochman, good friend and fellow Advance colleague Derek Alvez tries to put his death in perspective.)On August 23, 2024, at 9:40 p.m. my heart dropped when I received a text from Mary Beth that her father George Charles Kochman Jr. (aka GK) had passed away earlier in the day in a Maryland hospice. Dying. Death.

  • Sep 21, 2024 | cleveland.com | Derek Alvez

    SportsPublished: Sep. 21, 2024, 9:16 p.m.28th Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta in ClevelandCLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cuyahoga River and Rivergate Park were very busy Saturday with rowers competing in the 28th Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta. The Cleveland Rowing Foundation hosted the nation’s largest single-day rowing event, while welcoming clubs from 14 states, as well as an international crew from Mexico.

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