I wanted to make sure that we all knew about the impending closing of the Brooklyn Y by the end of the year. Please read this article in the Plain Dealer to get the details. Chances are no matter what we do as a neighborhood; the YMCA will close at the corner of the Brooklyn Brighton bridge. After all, the […]
Tim and I just returned from a 3rd District Community Relations Board Meeting. We know we live in the 2nd District, but our friend Dennis Althar called us to let us know that it was a Clerk of Courts Town Hall meeting and a lot of the municipal court judges would be there. They were all […]
Tim and I recently arrived home from the Memorial Day service in our neighborhood. Twenty-seven years ago a group of neighbors interested in the historical significance of our community began a Memorial Day service in a small cemetery named the Brooklyn Centre Burial Ground. Those same neighbors gather at the bases of the flagpole and […]
Denison school officials are puzzled at why their school was listed in a recent Plain Dealer article. Granted, there have been transistion problems this year with the addition of middle school students. Our Kindergarten through fifth grade school added three additional classes, sixth thru eighth. This type of transistion is very hard and would have been made easier […]
I was trying to upload a file for the Brooklyn Centre Garden Tour flyer but couldn’t, so have a look at the best upload so far, over at RealNEO: http://realneo.us/blog/timferris
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched– –They must be felt with the heart
~Helen Keller
According to Roldo’s assessment in Cool Cleveland of the Plain Dealer’s replacement of Alex Macheskee, the need for citizen journalists won’t be going away any time soon.
It appears that the Plain Dealer may get even duller and the news stories even more inane. I hope Roldo’s assessment is wrong because good competition would make all of our lives better, […]
I posted this comment at Tim Ferris today.
And the banks in Ohio say they should be excluded from recent predatory lending legislation because they are federally regulated. Do we really want to allow regulation of loan practices to be enforced by agencies that don’t enforce rules on their own agencies? We should be making these […]
The Bridge Builder
By Willaim Allen Dromgoole
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a […]
Michelle Baran, a local artist and resident of Old Brooklyn, is a welcome addition to our Business Page and our blogroll. Michelle’s subjects include many local sites such as the Fulton Road Bridge and Riverside Cemetery’s Administration Building. Visit her website to see more examples of her artistic talent.
Michelle also has a blog that promotes local […]