🏃♀️ Mantua's Triple Trail Fest offers adventure for all ages. The third annual event on June 7th features the Headwaters Adventure Race, where participants run, bike, and paddle through scenic trails. Named for the Headwaters Trail, Buckeye Trail, and Cuyahoga River Scenic Water Trail, the festival includes guided nature paddles, family hikes, and educational bike rides. Visitors can enjoy live music, food trucks, local breweries, and activities like volleyball, cornhole, and the popular rubber duck race. The community celebration highlights the natural beauty of Northeast Ohio's outdoor spaces.
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🎨 Cleveland's art institute unveils futuristic Interactive Media Lab. The Cleveland Institute of Art has launched a cutting-edge 14,000-square-foot space featuring extended reality technology, including a 36-foot video wall with floor LEDs and motion tracking capabilities. Located in the new MidTown Collaboration Center, the lab includes multiple studios for augmented and virtual reality, an arcade, screening room, and rapid prototyping facilities. Students are already creating immersive reality projects, with full programming beginning this fall. The initiative aims to prepare students for future careers while fostering partnerships with industries and the community.
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🧠 Three leadership lessons from the mental health frontlines. Rick Kellar, CEO of Peg's Foundation, shares wisdom from his years working to improve mental health care systems. He emphasizes that strong relationships between stakeholders—from doctors to families—create lasting change rather than just writing checks. Kellar advocates for bold investments in transformative ideas like crisis response teams, even when they seem risky. Beyond money, he highlights how leadership involves using one's voice and network to reduce stigma and bring diverse groups together to help people with serious mental illness live healthier lives.
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Spacious woodland retreat with bar: This charming $395,000 country home in Mantua Village offers a 1.3-acre wooded lot with five bedrooms, spacious living areas, and a basement with a wood-burning fireplace and built-in bar.
Affordable double wide corner lot: For $70,000, this well-maintained 1991 Skyline Double wide in Camelot Village offers a corner lot with updated roof, flooring, plumbing, and vinyl windows, plus convenient access to highways, shopping, and amenities.
Remodeled trail-adjacent Ravenna retreat: Priced at $189,900, this 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom Ravenna home offers 1,344 square feet of remodeled living space, featuring an oversized two-car garage and walking distance to the Portage Hike and Bike Trail.