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LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Ohio EPA’s Encouraging Environmental Excellence program recently celebrated the efforts of nearly 50 Buckeye State businesses and organizations protecting the environment.

Included in that acknowledgement is also similar work by local communities with Lakewood recently receiving a silver level of recognition for exceptional achievements in environmental stewardship.

“This is the first time we’ve received this award,” Lakewood Mayor Meghan George said. “We have an aggressive climate action plan so we felt good about applying.

“Sixteen Northeast Ohio organizations, businesses and communities received awards for going above and beyond to protect Ohio’s environment and continue to show commitment to environmental stewardship.”

As far as Lakewood’s achievements, Encouraging Environmental Excellence noted the city offers 100 percent clean energy for all residents through the use of renewable energy credits for wind and solar power.

In addition, the city installed solar panels on numerous community facilities, including the Service Department building and City Hall.

Lakewood has also been recognized as a Tree City USA for 45 years and maintains a Tree Task Force and a Tree Action Plan to maximize the benefits of urban forestry.

“We continue to focus on reducing our carbon imprint and enhancing our urban tree forestry, our alternative energy sources,” she said.

“It’s nice to be recognized by an outside organization for all the work that we’ve been doing. I thank all of our staff in the city who work extremely hard day in and day out to enact these green initiatives.”

The mayor noted the efforts of City Planner Amanda Cramer and the Lakewood Planning Development Department regarding the community’s environmental stewardship.

“Ohio is the heart of sustainability, and we’re committed to recognizing those at the forefront of innovation and stewardship,” said Ohio EPA Director Anne M. Vogel in a press release.

“We’re excited to reward companies that are helping children grow up in a safe environment and partnering to support the communities they call home. Their work inspires all of us to do more, and we are proud to share in their success.”

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Sometimes even the most pretentious of foodies can’t resist a craving for some classic bar food. Wings, burgers, and everything fried always are an ideal companion for a cold beer and a laid-back atmosphere.

Northeast Ohio is full of too many dive bars to count. Even the popular West Side suburb of Lakewood has a seemingly endless number of dive bars for locals to choose from. Better yet, many of the low-key drinking establishments also serve nearly every bar snack you can imagine. If you time your visit right, many dive bars also offer food deals and happy hour specials to make your bill that much cheaper.

Here are 12 underrated happy hour food deals at dive bars in Lakewood to serve as a guide for getting the best bang for your buck at a local bar.

1. Riverwood Café

18500 Detroit Ave., Lakewood

There are ways to save money on almost every night of the week at Riverwood Café on food and drinks. The specials are always rotating, but there are a few staples like half-off appetizers on Mondays at $2 tacos every Wednesday. Game nights are for wings, with 69-cent chicken wings while there’s a local game on TV. All of those deals aren’t even touching the daily food specials and deals on drinks, which is probably why Riverwood touts itself as having the best happy hour special in Lakewood.

2. Plank Road Tavern

16719 Detroit Ave., Lakewood

Plank Road Tavern is one of Lakewood’s most under-appreciated patios, and the bar is always offering happy hour deals on food and drinks to convince customers to stop by. Ivy’s Kitchen at Plank Road Tavern serves up bar staples with a twist, from build-your-own sandwiches and burgers to loaded tater tot bowls. Wednesdays are the prime time to stop by for a burger and a beer night. If you buy a burger, the beer comes complimentary. The menu also changes on a regular basis with the kitchen offering an eggroll, a panini, and a cake slice of the week to keep customers coming back to try what’s next.

3. Lakewood Village Tavern

13437 Madison Ave., Lakewood

Lakewood Village Tavern is a quintessential dive bar on Madison Avenue. It’s so old-school that the best way to figure out what food specials are going on is by checking out the chalkboard behind the bar. Whether it’s a dozen mussels for $4, tacos for $2.25 apiece or a ½ rack of ribs and sides for $10, there’s always a meal deal to be had at LVT. Aside from whatever recipe the kitchen chefs up on a daily basis, Lakewood Village Tavern is another staple spot for burgers, wings, quesadillas, and other bar snacks.

4. Kelley’s Pub

12545 Lakewood Heights Blvd., Lakewood

Kelley’s Pub on Lakewood Heights Boulevard is another underrated tavern for drinks, bites, and good vibes. The pub is known for its $5 kegs ‘n eggs specials on Sunday mornings before Browns games, but that’s only one of the its many food specials. Kelley’s has daily specials from $2 tacos on Tuesdays and Thursdays, $2 fish tacos on Fridays, and homemade beef stroganoff on Wednesdays for less than $8 a plate.

5. The Winchester Music Tavern

12112 Madison Ave., Lakewood

The Winchester is a hub for all things cool in Lakewood, from drag brunches to boozy bingo events. It also happens to be a bar with a great food menu for brunch, lunch, and dinner. From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays, the Winchester offers $5 small bites like quesadillas and sliders, some of which are vegan-friendly. Winchester also hosts a 3-course vegan menu on Mondays that is not only delicious but usually comes at an extremely reasonable price.

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6. Two Bucks

15609 Madison Ave., Lakewood

Two Bucks is a bar built on the premise of a good deal based on its name. Not everything will cost you just $2 from the chain with a location on Madison Avenue. But the bar does have a daily food specials menu to encourage diners to try out this expansive menu. Mondays are for $10 one-topping pizzas and flatbreads and $2 off wings. Tuesdays at Two Bucks are for $10 burgers and sandwiches, and the bar takes $2 off mac and cheese dishes on Wednesdays. Thursdays feature $2 off wings again as well as munchies, AKA the Two Bucks version of appetizers.

7. Merry Arts Pub and Grill

15607 1/2 Detroit Ave., Lakewood

Merry Arts dubs itself as Lakewood’s oldest pub. Aside from being a great bar, it also offers its own daily food specials. Instead of Taco Tuesday, Merry Arts serves Patty’s famous tacos on Monday and Thursday evenings. The following day, customers can opt for 75-cent jumbo wings. One of the best deals, especially for sharing, is two burgers for the price of one on Wednesdays with the purchase of a beverage. Fridays are always for the weekly fish fry while Saturday is more of a toss-up with a chef’s special menu item. Sundays are for steak dinners, with deals on New York strip and filet mignon for dine-in customers.

8. Rush Inn

17800 Detroit Ave., Lakewood

Rush Inn is another bar with discounted food deals on a daily basis, and it has the added plus of serving food until midnight. Mondays are for loaded tacos for $3.50 and on Wednesdays, the kitchen offers a cheeseburger with fries for $8. Tuesdays and Thursdays are discounted wing nights, but the prices vary. Rush Inn offers a fish fry plate with sides for $17 and pierogis for $13 on Fridays. Sunday is steak night with an 8 oz. New York strip with fries, broccoli, and garlic toast for a low price of $12 a plate.

9. Buckeye Beer Engine

15315 Madison Ave., Lakewood

Buckeye Beer Engine is another local watering hole that does bar food the right way. They make it even more enticing to stop by for a beer and a bite when they offer so many food specials. During happy hour on weekdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., customers get $2 off of any starters or wings. There are also daily specials, like 75-cent wings on Tuesdays or half-off boneless wings on Wednesdays. On Mondays, you can get a complete meal of a burger and a beer for just $10 total, and it might be one of the cheapest and most-filling bites in town.

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10. Mid-Town Booths

16934 Detroit Ave., Lakewood

Mid-Town Booths has an unconventional deal on Mondays thanks to Slackers Kitchen behind the bar. With a purchase of a drink on Mondays, patrons can dine on whatever is cooked in a crock pot for free. Crock Pot Mondays are a delicious mystery at Booths. Recent crock pot meals included kielbasa over mixed veggies in sweet chili sauce, Mississippi stew, and meatball and sausage rigatoni. It’s a taste of home cooking from a bar with an equally comforting atmosphere.

11. Around The Corner Saloon and Café

18616 Detroit Ave., Lakewood

Around The Corner is a popular spot for drinks, but some patrons might not realize the kitchen offers a span of weekly wood specials. Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, the bar sells wings for just 69 cents each. Monday features a two-for-one burger special while Wednesdays are for $2 tacos. It’s an ideal spot to sit and stay for a few drinks and turn to some low-cost bar food to soak up the alcohol.

12. The Foundry Concert Club

11729 Detroit Ave., Lakewood

The Foundry is a popular spot for seeing a punk rock show or participating in trivia night, but it also has a budget-friendly food menu that gets even cheaper with weekly specials. Aside from the burgers, it’s hard to find a dish on the menu that costs more than $10. Tuesday is also wing night at the Foundry. Eight bone-in wings cost $8 while a pound of boneless or cauliflower wings sells for $6 during the special, and there’s always a rotating monthly wing sauce for those in the mood for something different.

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LAKEWOOD, Ohio — They say that art is just an imitation of nature, and on Lakewood's Arthur Avenue, there is a work of art that tugs on human nature. It is a massive globe of planet Earth in the shape of a cube that makes people stop, think and interpret its meaning.

"It is strange. It is so big, and I don't know what it is. It's weird, but it's pretty," said Kayla Miller, a neighbor in the area.

The cubed globe has been making its way around the neighborhood, popping up in front of different places every two to three days for the past few weeks. It's caused quite a stir on social media, with people asking, 'What the heck is that thing?"

It is currently placed in front of David Goldstein's house.

"Nobody knows what to make of it," he said. "They sneak out in the middle of the night, apparently, and they push it around to anybody that gives it the okay to stay in their yard, and I didn't know what had set my dog off at 11:30 at night, but I figured it out in the morning when I came out here and saw it."

The "they" Goldstein refers to Rob Holland and whoever he recruits to move the globe around every few nights.

Jessie Holland, Rob's wife, said her husband has quite an artistic side, and he began to create the cubed world in the winter.

"Rob often just finds inspiration in the weirdness of the day. Somewhere out of the depths of his creative mind, the idea for the giant, flat, Earth globe was born," she said.

At first, he put it in front of their yard on Arthur Avenue.

"The idea was that it would just be this funny bit that would go to our friend's houses," she said.

But the art installation has wheels, and the joke has rolled into the summer, moving to different, random places.

"I have no idea what it is. My son has asked about it; we've talked about how it has different continents, the blue is water, the green is land," said Nathan Ratkovsky, a neighbor. "He likes to see it in different spots."

Holland said they don't have social media, but they've been told people in Lakewood like to play "Where's Waldo?" with Rob's creation.

"People were calling this like the 'glube,' the globe and the cube, or the 'squearth,' which we got a lot of laughs out of," she said.

And while art may be up for interpretation, the meaning of Holland's cube seems clear: a connection to your neighbors and your home can mean a lot in this big, wide and round world.

"Life is pretty serious, you know, and there's a lot of bad stuff that's going on in the world, and I think people just love something that is a little different, a little odd, and the community loves it," said Goldstein.

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The location only had 1,800 pre-printed paper ballots for the 1,908 voters who showed up. More were printed and all those in line still voted.

LAKEWOOD, Ohio — More than 100 voters had to wait while new ballots were printed after a Lakewood polling location ran out of ballots during Tuesday's elections.

A poll worker at Roosevelt Elementary School in Lakewood shared the issue with 3News as polling locations in Ohio were closing down for the day.

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The location only had 1,800 pre-printed paper ballots for the 1,908 voters who showed up. The poll worker said no voters were turned away, and they were able to print blank ballots to get their votes cast.

At one point, workers started a list to take down names, phone numbers, and addresses to document the issue just in case. Roughly 60 people were on that list, including one voter who wanted to remain anonymous but shared their concerns about the problem.

She told WKYC a poll worker called her back at 7:28 p.m., at which point she was able to get back to the location to vote.

"It was very frustrating for me because Issue 1 is very important to me, the outcome, as a woman," she told 3News' Bri Buckley, referencing the constitutional amendment regarding abortion rights. "I also believe that voting stations should have ballots for every single voter, regardless of if they expect them or not."

3News reached out to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in light of the incident. A spokesperson told us that "they don't run out of ballots" and while "on demand printing may cause delays, they do not turn away any voter."

While polls in Ohio closed at 7:30 p.m., state law allows everyone in line before that time still be permitted to vote, meaning those who stayed at the school still got to go to the polls even "after hours."

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LAKEWOOD, Ohio — It's one of the most joyous traditions in Northeast Ohio: Light Up Lakewood is coming back this holiday season!

LakewoodAlive's 17th annual holiday festival is happening on Saturday, December 2, from 4 p.m.- 8 p.m.

"Sponsored by First Federal Lakewood and presented by LakewoodAlive, Light Up Lakewood celebrates the season and the richness of our city’s vibrancy. This free, family-friendly event on Detroit Avenue in Downtown Lakewood features a holiday parade, lighting ceremony, winter fireworks, The Roundstone Beer Garden, Holiday Train, live music, ice carvings, hot chocolate, food trucks, children’s games and more," a news release said.

People who participate are invited to stroll around Lakewood's downtown district while stopping in at local shops along the way. They can also grab a bite at any of the restaurants while taking in the sights and sounds, holiday lights, and carolers. It's one of the biggest holiday celebrations in Northeast Ohio.

Schedule of Events for Light Up Lakewood 2023:

• 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. – Ongoing performances with a surprise visitor

• 4 p.m. – Festival Kickoff

• Holiday Market at the Lakewood Masonic Temple

• The Roundstone Beer Garden sponsored by Roundstone Insurance on Detroit Avenue between Belle and Marlowe Avenues with exclusive beer sponsor Immigrant Son Brewery.

• Food Trucks

• Outdoor Vendors

• DJs spinning festive tunes

• 4-8 p.m. – Santa visits in front of Lakewood Public Library

• 5 p.m. – Holiday Parade starting at Belle and Detroit Avenues, headed westbound on Detroit Avenue

• 5:30-8 p.m. – Live music at the City Center Main Stage

• 6:30 p.m. – Lighting Ceremony at Main Stage at City Center Park (in front of the Marc’s Plaza)

• 7 p.m. – Fireworks Show sponsored by First Federal Lakewood over Kauffman Park

• 7:45 p.m. – Final Pour at The Roundstone Beer Garden

“We are excited to once again welcome our neighbors and visitors from across the region for Light Up Lakewood, our signature community event," said Ian Andrews, Executive Director of LakewoodAlive. "Whether you're feeling the spirit of the holiday season or simply wish to enjoy a festive, family-friendly community atmosphere, no event better showcases our city's vibrancy than this long-standing Lakewood tradition.”

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