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A proposed apartment complex in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood is one step closer to becoming a reality after nearly two years of debate. The Board of Zoning Appeals approved two variance requests on a 3-1 vote Monday, despite extensive opposition from someresidents. Chairman Carol Johnson was the lone opposing vote. The complex proposed by Hemingway Development will include 44 units and a basement-level garage with spaces for tenants and nearby restaurants’ valets.

The high coronavirus infection rate means Navajo Nation schools are closed. But online learning is impossible for many who lack electricity and can't access the Internet.

A longstanding Northeast Ohio art tradition carries on during the pandemic shutdown. Since 2005, the Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists have gathered in area taverns and studios to render volunteer models in paint, pencil and pastel. But in the past few weeks, the group has temporarily moved their weekly session online. A little after 7:30 p.m. last Friday, Roger Miller called the roll for the weekly gathering of the Pretentious Artists.

Elyria’s Jessica Zevotek said her three older children were “devastated” when they learned they wouldn’t be able to attend the Elyria Arts Council’s kids art drop-in program because of restrictions on gatherings due to the coronavirus. Zevotek, a mother of four kids ranging in age from 11 to 2, said her kids really look forward to the bimonthly chance to make art . “It doesn't go more than a day that we have the kids ask, ‘When we can finish the projects that we started?’” Zevotek said.

When Governor Mike DeWine issued the stay-at-home order in March, it hit just about everyone hard. But for people living with mental illness, like anxiety and depression, the order encouraged something they often struggle with: isolation.

It’s been one week since Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. The day took on added meaning this year amid the demonstrations against racism and police use of force against Black people.

Cleveland has seen a spike in new coronavirus cases in June, public health officials told city council on Monday. For 103 new patients, initial symptoms trace back to the third week of June, according to a city health department presentation. That was a jump over the prior two weeks, but below symptom onset numbers for earlier in May. The city reported 75 new cases on Sunday, the biggest daily increase in Cleveland's case count to date. Health Director Merle Gordon said those numbers were not reflected in her presentation to city council.

County fairs around Northeast Ohio are debating whether to ban sale or display of the Confederate flag. The grass-roots movement comes after state legislators killed a proposal that would have banned the flag across all fairs last month. Portage County is the latest to face calls to remove the Confederate flag from its county fair. A petition from Portage County Young Democrats urges the fair board to take the “necessary steps” of banning the sale and display of the flag at the Portage County Randolph Fair.

Ongoing impeachment proceedings in Washington, D.C., may not have much of an impact on the local level in 2020 elections, even as House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Tuesday. The impeachment process hasn’t changed many minds, in Northeast Ohio or elsewhere, said Baldwin Wallace University Political Science Professor Tom Sutton.

The Lorain City School Board and Academic Distress commission appointed former county superintendent Greg Ring to be interim CEO of Lorain City Schools at a joint meeting Wednesday night. The district terminated its contract with current CEO David Hardy Jr. after difficulties with communication and management, including a dispute over employee pay. Hardy’s last day is Jan. 3.