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The Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists Celebrate 20 Years

Tim Herron and participant Duane Dickson spoke with The Tremonster when we stopped in on The Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists for their 20th anniversary during a regularly scheduled portrait artist and model break.

by Timothy Herron and Brian Pierce

In June/July we will be our 20th year, beginning in 2005 in the back of a small bar in the Tremont area of Cleveland called the Literary Café, which was run by Andy Timithy and Linda Baldizzi. Brian Pierce and I just wanted steady practice drawing portraits and offered the patrons our drawings in exchange for posing in order to save some money and not toss the drawing in the basement or closet. Overhearing a fellow patron explain to his friend in a private conversation that Tremont was filled with pretentious artists provided us with a name for our drawing group.

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Julie Dahlhausen Sees Uncertainty in the Future for Tremont West, Asks Community to Take Action

‘I expect we will face this uncertainty, time and time again, until eventually it does not end in our favor.’

Julie Dahlhausen, Tremont West Executive Director (photo by Rich Weiss)

by The Tremonster

Tremont West Development Corporation held its annual meeting on Thursday, May 15. The buffet dinner supplied by Cilantro Taqueria was outstanding, votes were cast for a slate of Tremont West board candidates, and there was the comfort of annual routines like scanning the room for your block club table sign. But in her Director’s Report for the Tremont West 2025 Annual Meeting, Julie Dahlhausen sounded an alarm.

“Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding continues to be Tremont West’s most significant and vital source of support. For months, our team has carried the heavy concern that these funds could be reduced—or eliminated entirely,” she said. “Such a loss would result in substantial cuts to our programs and to our staff.”

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Roosevelt Post 58 has a New Home: American Legion, Newburgh Heights

Roosevelt Post 58 has a new home in the American Legion (Post 627, 3935 E. 42nd St.), Newburgh Heights.

The longtime Tremont institution, the Polish Legion of American Veterans Roosevelt Post 58, sold its Tremont building and closed its doors in December of 2022.

“Ever since we sold that building two years ago, we’ve been looking for a place we could call ‘home.’ We finally found it,” said Terry Zacharyj, Post 58 Commander.

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Keri November’s Jefferson Library Sign Language Class Holds Reunion at Roasted

Keri November held a reunion of friends and students from her ongoing 8-week American Sign Language class, held at the Cleveland Public Library (CPL) Jefferson Branch semi-annually.

Below is a 2022 article submission to The Tremonster from Keri November describing the class and her own journey as a deaf person, finding her way to Tremont, and her American Sign Language class offering.

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The March Issue of The Tremonster is Here

Collision Bend Brewing Co. Releases The Word Double IPA Featuring Tremont Artist David Witzke

Dave Witzke, aka The Sign Guy, is the muralist who paints bird and cat murals (and stickers) all over Tremont. Luke Purcell is part-owner and brewmaster of Collision Bend Brewing Company. They have collaborated to create a new beer for Collision Bend’s “artist series,” transforming one of Dave’s murals into a beer can. Natasha Pogrebinsky is a celebrated Cleveland chef, reporting for The Tremonster. The original painting for the design for the Collision Bend beer can art work will be sold to the highest bidder. Proceeds will be donated to the Cleveland APL. Search “The_Sign_Guy_1972” on Instagram for updates.

Steady Turnout at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ in Tremont for 11/07 Election

Henry Senyak Passes Away

In loving memory of Henry P. Senyak, 5/17/1963 – 8/9/2023

Obituary

Henry P. Senyak, of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. Beloved son of the late Henry E. Senyak, and the late Getrude H. Senyak (nee Pilar). Passed away on August, 9, 2023, at the age of 60, from complications of cancer.) Henry is survived by many first and second cousins, aunts, uncles, and other relations. But considered his community, friends, and neighbors to be family members too.

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Mayor Bibb Tours Tremont

On an 80° day in Cleveland, Ohio, Mayor Justin Bibb took a walk down Professor Street in Tremont, asked questions of community members, and listened to their answers. Tremont’s neighborhood newspaper, The Tremonster, tagged along to document Mayor Bibb’s unique approach to connecting with our residents and businesses directly—by walking through our neighborhood, himself.

The Tremonster Issue #72

The Tremonster issue #72 is out and available wherever you gather in #Tremont!http://thetremonster.org