Happy Birthday Cleveland! Share the River's Photo Album for Our Ideastream Public Media Sound of Ideas Convo with Rick Jackson

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Happy Birthday Cleveland! Share the River's Photo Album for Our Ideastream Public Media Sound of Ideas Convo with Rick Jackson

As fate would have it, our founder, Jim Ridge, will be on Ideastream Public Media/WCPN/The Sound of Ideas to talk with pro’s pro Rick Jackson about the July 24 Blazing Paddles Paddlefest at Rivergate Park/Cleveland Metroparks Merwin’s Wharf/Cleveland Rowing Foundation. But the convo will also touch upon Cleveland’s (and Cleveland’s waterfront) history! Jim will open the show from appx. 9:04 to 9:25 am. You can stream this morning’s interview here. Jim starts the show at the top of the hour.

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Slow River Episode 8: Sculler Shimmer on the Old Cuyahoga River Channel

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Slow River Episode 8: Sculler Shimmer on the Old Cuyahoga River Channel

This week’s Slow River episode is a short one. In September 2015 we had the pleasure of collaborating on an amazing project with visual storytellers Ben Harper and Christopher Cymbalak at Breakwall Media. The sunrise shimmer of the Cleveland skyline as the launch’s gentle wake made its way across the Cuyahoga’s old river channel was a thing of beauty.

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Slow River Episode 7: Great Lakes Construction Pulls Huge Tree from the Cuyahoga River

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Slow River Episode 7: Great Lakes Construction Pulls Huge Tree from the Cuyahoga River

This week’s Slow River goes back to a raw April day in Cleveland in 2018. We had noticed scholastic rowing teams navigating their way around a small bump on the surface of the water - a bump that wasn’t moving. River veterans surmised it was a tree that had been driven into the riverbed 28 feet below by a passing freighter. So the tree became a permanent obstacle (instead of floating down the river to the lake).

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Ralph the Rooster Rescued by Cuyahoga River Kayaker

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Ralph the Rooster Rescued by Cuyahoga River Kayaker

Hannah Ross Smith was kayaking on the Cuyahoga River near the Carter Rd. Bridge last night when she came across some exotic wildlife. No it wasn’t a Blue Heron, peregrine falcon, or a beaver. It was a rooster. A salmon faverolle rooster to be exact. One can easily imagine the rooster channeling Talking Heads’ Once in a Lifetime’s classic lyric “Well, how did I get here?!”.

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New York City's Shade Throw Shines a Light on Cleveland's H20 History

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New York City's Shade Throw Shines a Light on Cleveland's H20 History

It was the tweet that launched 4,100 replies and counting. We surmise on a late Friday afternoon heading into the Fourth of July weekend a young staffer was flipped the keys to the City of New York’s Twitter account and in a misguided attempt to throw literal shade at the City of Cleveland, they sparked a flurry of responses from proud Clevelanders and others.

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Slow River: Blazing Paddles Paddlefest Sights on the Cuyahoga River

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Slow River: Blazing Paddles Paddlefest Sights on the Cuyahoga River

This week’s Slow River is a journey up a glassy Cuyahoga River on a brilliant morning in Cleveland. In addition to the tour of bridges that any trip up the river provides, it’s a reminder of the scenic beauty of Cleveland’s hard-working river.

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Front Porch Lights at Cuyahoga River Rally at Hart Crane Park

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Front Porch Lights at Cuyahoga River Rally at Hart Crane Park

Cleveland’s Front Porch Lights wrapped a day of activities at Hart Crane Park and on the Cuyahoga River during Canalway Partners’ Cuyahoga River Rally. After a cloudy day interspersed with rain, figured the sun would finally pop out toward the end of the day…

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Announcement on Blazing Paddles Return to the Comeback Cuyahoga River on July 24

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Announcement on Blazing Paddles Return to the Comeback Cuyahoga River on July 24

Share the River’s founder, Jim Ridge, announces the 3rd Annual Blazing Paddles will return to Cleveland’s comeback Cuyahoga River on Saturday, July 24, 2021! Registration opens at 6 p.m. tonight!

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Electric Hydrofoil Surfboard is the Latest Narrative Changer for the Cuyahoga River

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Electric Hydrofoil Surfboard is the Latest Narrative Changer for the Cuyahoga River

On a breezy Tuesday afternoon we caught this gent having a great time on his electric hydrofoil surfboard. A quick check of the web show these boards can run upwards of $12k. Fliteboard out of Australia (go figure) seems to be a market leader. What will be the next thing?

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Slow River: Scranton Flats

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Slow River: Scranton Flats

Slow River: Scranton Flats is the second installment of a trial series called "Slow River". Every Sunday morning we'll share a real-time scene with natural audio. It's a riff on the Norwegian "Slow TV" Series popularized in the 2000s.

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Freighters and Kayaks at Merwin's Wharf - Mind the Bow Thruster

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Freighters and Kayaks at Merwin's Wharf - Mind the Bow Thruster

Paddlers looking to explore the final miles of the Cuyahoga River have been turning to Cleveland Metroparks' Merwin's Wharf dock that offers one of the few public "put-ins" and technically the only one located in the Federal Navigation Channel

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Today We Launch an Experiment Called "Slow River"

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Today We Launch an Experiment Called "Slow River"

Today we're launching a trial series called "Slow River". Every Sunday morning we'll share a real-time scene with natural audio. It's a riff on the Norwegian "Slow TV" Series popularized in the 2000s. Think of it like a "CBS Sunday Morning" nature segment.

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6 Perspectives on "Cleveland's Waterfront is Open For Business"

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6 Perspectives on "Cleveland's Waterfront is Open For Business"

Wednesday’s “Cleveland’s Waterfront is Open for Business - Have Fun and Be Safe” press conference and mixer at Collision Bend Brewing Co. was a wonderful opportunity for maritime, law enforcement, recreation, and business stakeholders to share their respective thoughts on the positive impact Cleveland’s waterfront has on the regional economy.

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NFL Draft Lands on Cleveland's Lake Erie Shore

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NFL Draft Lands on Cleveland's Lake Erie Shore

After two years of planning, and a year of uncertainty, the NFL Draft lands in Cleveland from Thursday April 28 through Saturday May 1. The national event is described by some as the biggest stage for Cleveland’s brand since the 2016 Republican National Convention.

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Center Street Swing Bridge Rehabilitation Project is Subject of Virtual Public Meeting Tonight: Bridge Spanning Cuyahoga River Will Close for 10 Months.

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Center Street Swing Bridge Rehabilitation Project is Subject of Virtual Public Meeting Tonight: Bridge Spanning Cuyahoga River Will Close for 10 Months.

A significant connector in Cleveland’s Flats district, the Center Street Swing Bridge will close the historic bridge spanning the Cuyahoga River to vehicle and pedestrian traffic for the duration of the project, slated to begin In mid-late July 2021 and wrap in July 2022.

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Freighter Stirs the Cuyahoga River Drink

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Freighter Stirs the Cuyahoga River Drink

On a recent Saturday we caught the 630 foot long freighter Calumet making its way up a Cuyahoga River busy with recreational watercraft. It provided a great example of Cleveland’s evolving “theater of the waterfront’ and provided a few lessons on the river’s increasing popularity with recreational paddlers.

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