Signal Cleveland

Established in 2022, Signal Cleveland is a news organization that combines community engagement with local news coverage. We deliver reliable and credible daily journalism on various subjects such as government, economy, education, health, and public safety. Additionally, we host the Cleveland Documenters, a team of 600 residents from nearly every ZIP code in Greater Cleveland, who are trained and compensated to report on public meetings.

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Here’s how to apply for HEAP Summer Crisis Program assistance

2 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

There is a price to pay for escaping scorching temperatures such as the heat wave Greater Cleveland just experienced – high electric bills. For those struggling to keep up with cooling costs, the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) Summer Crisis Program may offer help. The program provides one-time assistance with electric utility bills, central air conditioning repairs and purchasing an air conditioning unit and/or fan(s).
Clevelanders can help survivors of recent apartment explosion

3 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Frank W. Lewis |Lila Mills
Shiloh, Cleveland's oldest Black Baptist church continues to serve

5 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

Shiloh Baptist Church in Central is called the mother church of Black Baptist churches in Cleveland. Founded 176 years ago, it was the city’s first Black Baptist congregation. Shiloh’s existence has been intertwined with Black life in Cleveland. The church was founded by a free Black community during slavery. It stood firm through Reconstruction, Jim Crow and other legal racial segregation and discrimination. The church withstood two World Wars and the Great Depression.
Liberty Hill Baptist Church aims to be a light for Fairfax and beyond

5 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

There is this one thing that constantly competes for Rev. Michael L. Brown’s attention in leading Liberty Hill Baptist Church: The imposing building the church has called home for nearly 70 years. The massive four-story Moorish Revival-style brick building at Euclid Avenue and East 82nd Street stretches more than a block, almost to Carnegie Avenue.
A $5 million fund could preserve historic Black Cleveland churches

5 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

Just about every time Peggie Brown enters the sanctuary at Shiloh Baptist Church in Central, she gazes up at the immense stained glass dome and admires it. She’s been doing this for the 60 years she has been a member. One Sunday about three years ago, Brown arrived at the church on Scoville Avenue and East 55th Street and gasped in horror. Members told her stained glass and plaster had fallen from the dome in the building constructed in the early 1900s.
East Mt. Zion Baptist Church stays in Fairfax to focus on community

5 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

East Mt. Zion Baptist Church was in the process of selling its building about five years ago. Then the congregation’s new senior pastor had a revelation. “It was kind of like a Moses-at-the-burning-bush moment,” the Rev. Brian Cash, who has pastored the church since 2020, said, referring to the biblical story.
Who is mayor of East Cleveland? No ruling yet from appeals court

1 week ago | signalcleveland.org | Nick Castele

The day after a jury convicted Mayor Brandon King of theft in office, East Cleveland moved to cut off his paycheck. Sandra Morgan, who was appointed interim mayor during King’s suspension, told the finance director in an email to stop paying King. “He is effectively no longer Mayor of East Cleveland, and as such, is no longer entitled to salary payments,” Morgan wrote.
Eria, Pa. tourism ads meet the power washer in Cleveland

1 week ago | signalcleveland.org | Nick Castele

A guerrilla marketing campaign tagged downtown Cleveland sidewalks this week with spray chalk advertisements for Erie, Pennsylvania. The ads belonged to VisitErie, the area’s tourism bureau. Downtown Cleveland Inc.’s ambassadors cleaned up 33 ads this week, the organization said. Cleveland City Hall let VisitErie know that a bill would be coming, according to an email thread seen by Signal Cleveland.
Extreme heat is headed for Greater Cleveland beginning Sunday.

1 week ago | signalcleveland.org | Reegan Davis Saunders |Frank W. Lewis

Dangerously high daily temperatures over 90, with moderate to extreme heat risk, are expected in Northeast Ohio beginning Sunday and lasting through Thursday. Extreme heat risk, which the National Weather Service classifies as “rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little to no overnight relief,” can be expected starting Monday. Looking for a place to stay cool?
Cleveland EMS ambulances now offers blood transfusions

1 week ago | signalcleveland.org | Celia Hack

Cleveland EMS can now provide whole blood in critical, life-or-death emergencies – a new, potentially lifesaving measure adopted by what one study estimates is just 1% of EMS departments nationwide. Cleveland EMS began administering whole blood on June 4, EMS Commissioner Orlando Wheeler said. As of Wednesday, the department has given blood transfusions to eight people. “Within six hours of going live, we had two transfusions in the field,” Wheeler said.