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It would have been easy for public officials and cycling advocates to shrug their shoulders and give up on creating a better bicycle-pedestrian link across the Ashley River years ago,

The South Euclid Memorial Day Parade, May 29,will have a shorter route this year. Also, a newly built home on Wilmington Road is being listed for sale at $350,000.

Resurfacing of both the concrete and asphalt portions of South Belvoir Boulevard in South Euclid will take place this summer. Meanwhile, City Council learned Monday that home values are increasing, and that recreation amenities continue to be added at city parks.

South Euclid City Council has approved a resolution that will have the city team with SolSmart, a national organization that makes the steps necessary for a community to move to solar energy easier and less costly. Also, the city will host a job fair April 21.

Work has begun on the second phase of South Green Road improvements in South Euclid. One lane of northbound and southbound traffic will be maintained as work is done.

It is officially the weekend of the event that thousands have been waiting for, and race participants aren’t the only ones excited for the 46th annual Cooper River Bridge Run.

South Euclid Director of Planning & Development Michael Love told City Council Monday (March 27) that Pizza Cat is planning to move into the former Greenmont Party Center space at Monticello Boulevard and South Green Road. Love also said that the 26 homes planned for Greenvale Road and the former Lowden School property have moved another step toward becoming reality.

Uptown Hospitality Group, the Charleston-based offshoot of legendary New York bar and restaurant group Eat Drink & Be Merry, is set to expand its reign as one of Charleston's hospitality leaders with the opening of Bodega and Share House this February. Set in an 8,000 square-foot former train depot, the group’s newest venture brings big-city-bar vibes and all-day fare to the Holy City.

Beverly Scott Jarrett Walker PART 1: HOW THE PANDEMIC WALLOPED TRANSIT SYSTEMS When Americans were told to avoid crowded spaces, that meant buses and trains, subways and streetcars. Our policy hackers outlined what happened in the months that followed, and some of the lessons policymakers learned along the way. Widespread service cuts Nationally, transit ridership fell by 80 percent, so it’s no wonder that many agencies dialed service way back. Some switched to a weekend schedule or stopped ...

Ridership plummeted and may never come back. We asked 12 thought leaders to game out where city transit systems should go from here.