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  • Reds fans can enjoy the best of Trevor Bauer one more time as Fox Sports Ohio repeats four of his best games Nov. 8-10.
  • During the pandemic lockdown, more people are digging up treasure troves of historical items. In Scotland, a man with a metal detector found a trove of Bronze Age artifacts including a sword.
  • Posting content related to suicide is an indicator that young people might be thinking about suicide, according to a recent study. Researchers anonymously surveyed 15,000 middle and high school students in the Stark County area, which recently experienced a rapid increase in youth suicides between August 2017 and March 2018.
  • After shuttering its theaters in March due to the pandemic, Tower City Cinemas will not be reopening. Cleveland Cinemas, which operates Tower City Cinemas and others in the region, announced the Tower City Cinemas closure in a news release Monday afternoon. “While Tower City Cinemas has been closed since March due to the on-going health crisis, with the lease expiring, a decision was made to not reopen the theater,” said Jon Forman, president of Cleveland Cinemas, in a written statement.
  • Lin Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning smash, "Hamilton," lands in Playhouse Square this week. It's been billed as a revolutionary musical about the American Revolution, but is the critically-acclaimed show really revolutionary? Not according to Oberlin College history professor Renee Romano. In the new book she's co-edited, "Historians on Hamilton," opinions are varied on the musical's true reflection of American history.
  • Voters in two northern Ohio school districts rejected school levies in their Aug. 6 special elections. More than 78 percent of those who voted Tuesday in the Willoughby-Eastlake City School District opposed a levy that would have raised more than $8 million to cover state-level cuts that have put the district in the red. The measure failed with only 1,925 votes in favor of the levy and 6,988 against.
  • Shoppers in Cuyahoga County will need to find an alternative to single-use plastic bags, as some stores have already removed the option. The county’s bag ban goes into effect this week. Though businesses won’t be fined for providing plastic bags for the first six months, many stores have already started pushing their customers toward alternatives.
  • Cuyahoga County leads the state when it comes to bindovers — or juvenile offenders sent to adult courts — and that number has doubled over the past two years. Last year, 100 young offenders were charged as adults, four times the rate in Franklin County. Organizations like the ACLU say the high number of bindovers are because prosecutors aren’t exercising discretion when filing charges.
  • The All-Star Game filled the coffers of a number of familiar downtown restaurants and hotels over the past week. But a number of entrepreneurs also set up temporary venues in some unexpected locations. For instance, an empty Euclid Avenue storefront found new life thanks to the Midsummer Classic. Marcie Gilmore stood behind a bar on some prime real estate at East Ninth and Euclid and explained.
  • Amid the country’s worsening measles outbreak, Ohio is reporting the state’s first case of this year. A young unvaccinated adult in Stark County contracted the virus and has since recovered, but not before coming into contact with some people who are believed to be unvaccinated, according to the Ohio Department of Health’s Jose Rodriguez. Officials are monitoring those who may have been in contact with this individual and they are in self-quarantine, Rodriguez says.
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