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On March 15, Governor Mike DeWine closed Ohio’s eateries due to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing only take-out and delivery service. On May 15, restaurants and bars were permitted to reopen for outdoor dining. Dine-in service was permitted to resume on May 21. At each juncture, Ohio restaurant and bar owners have had to determine if it was the right time to reopen their establishments. For venues where live entertainment is an important part of their business, an added factor came into play: How to safely present music for both patrons and performers.

Colleges around the country are expecting significant shortfalls — up to $1 billion for some universities. Many are turning to hiring freezes and layoffs despite rich endowments.

Joanne Wittenbrook is a part-time home health aide with clients in Brecksville, Twinsburg, and occasionally other east side suburbs. She helps her elderly clients — an especially vulnerable population — with household tasks and errands. But she herself is retired and in an older age group, so she could also have health issues if she caught COVID-19. “I’m very concerned for my clients. I’m also very concerned for my own health,” she said. “It’s a very scary time for all of us.”

As restaurants, museums and movie theaters reopen, the majority of U.S. adults do not yet feel comfortable patronizing them, according to a new national survey.

Fallout from the cancellation of an exhibition featuring images of violence against Black people has raised issues in the art world. Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art, moCa, said it didn’t want to traumatize community members. Efforts are being made to find a middle ground between art and trauma.

Cleveland’s public health officials on Wednesday took responsibility for not meeting the state’s expectations as set forth in grants totaling $1.5 million for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.

Ten days before Ohio’s rescheduled primary election, Selina Pagán and other volunteers drove through neighborhoods on Cleveland’s West Side to hand out vote-by-mail applications from a safe distance. They called it La Caravana de la Democracia. It was the group’s “shot in the dark” to help Spanish-speaking voters after the coronavirus pushed the election from polling places to the postal system.

The majority of voters did not support the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District in Ohio’s extended primary, despite a strong push by the district and supporters. In the early morning hours, the Cuyahoga Board of Elections released unofficial results showing the levy failed with only 48 percent of votes in its favor, by a margin of more than 600 votes. The 7.9 mill levy would have brought in more than $8 million in new revenue for the school district and add roughly $275 in property taxes per year for every $100,000 of a home’s value.

Angelica Pozo has literally left her mark on Cleveland through public art. Her ceramics are found around the region—including a recent piece highlighting a relatively unknown African American enclave that has lived on Cleveland’s West Side for over a century. Much of this work is hatched in her studio, which sits behind a big yellow house in Tremont.

Many people are out of work right now and Northeast Ohio artists are among them. As shutdowns and layoffs continue, several local emergency arts funds are in the works. One of the first area efforts to get relief money into the hands of artists came in the wake of the first shutdowns. Cleveland Orchestra bassist Henry Peyrebrune saw the need for a quick response.