Guards Fall in ALCS: CLE Daily

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by Ron Ledgard | Oct. 20, 2026 | 5:00 AM

Photographed by AP Photo/David J. Phillip

🍺 A 21-Year-Old Brought His Family's Little Italy Tavern Back to Life: Jack Sparent left Cleveland State to revive Lou's Tavern on Coltman Road, the bar his great-grandfather opened in the 1920s. His 88-year-old grandmother cooks the pasta fagioli, cavatelli and meatballs, and a 1960s Wurlitzer jukebox still plays in the corner.

💿 Time Traveler Records Spins Again in Akron: After 12 years on West Market Street, the independent record store has reopened at 1375 N. Portage Path, selling new and used vinyl, CDs, cassettes, imported bootlegs and rare finds. Owner Scott Shepard also buys and trades.

🛸 The Night a Helicopter Crew From Cleveland Met a UFO: In 1973, a four-man Army Reserve helicopter crew flying home to Cleveland reported a 60-foot, cigar-shaped craft over Charles Mill Lake near Mansfield that bathed their helicopter in green light and knocked out its compass. It's still considered one of the best-documented UFO sightings in U.S. history.

ICYMI: Remember our look at the young entrepreneurs getting their start in Northeast Ohio schools? North Royalton High students run a campus honey business, and a University School junior sells his Aww, Fudge treats at a student market, after retiring a marshmallow flavor that didn't sell.

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Today's Trivia

What now-defunct museum could be found in various locations on Euclid Avenue during its 70-year history before closing in 2007 and merging with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History?

Sports: The exciting Guardians season ends with a loss in Game 6.

By Cleveland Magazine

The Guardians’ season ended Monday night in St. Petersburg, Florida, 7-3, the way these things end: against a better bullpen.

Cleveland opened with Shawn Armstrong and a plan. The plan lasted until the second inning. Freddy Peralta held them to one run in 5 1/3 innings. Junior Caminero hit the left-field foul pole in the seventh because, of course, he did.

Cleveland got one swing — bases loaded in the eighth, a walk and a hit batter made it 5-3. Kevin Kelly struck out the last man. Yandy Diaz homered in the bottom half. Four games to two in the Rays' favor.

This is the Guardians team that went down 0-2 to the White Sox and won three in a row. Only 11 of 96 teams have done that.

The Rays get the Brewers. Two franchises, zero titles, one of them finds out.

Talk of the Town

Nestle is closing its Solon factory and moving production to South Carolina. The company, which has been in Solon for nearly 60 years and bought Cleveland-based Stouffer's in 1973, hasn't said how many jobs are affected but is offering separation packages and encouraging workers to apply at its other Ohio sites.

Cleveland Public Power wants to restructure and raise its electric rates. The proposal before City Council would add a flat monthly fee and a three-tier usage system starting next year. Signal estimates summer bills could rise about $7 to $8 a month, with more increases planned for 2028 and 2029.

You can now search 10 years of Cleveland police discipline records. Signal Cleveland's new database covers more than 1,800 hearings since 2016, and fewer than 4% ended in termination, while body camera violations made up more than one in five cases.

A state senator wants voters to approve any Cuyahoga County sales tax hike. Sen. Tom Patton's bill could complicate the city and county's plan to pay for more than $400 million in repairs at Rocket Arena and Progressive Field through 2037. The county opposes it.

Clark-Fulton is getting more than 100 new affordable apartments. Walton Senior Apartments, with 52 units for seniors, is nearly finished, and Hub 27's 53 workforce apartments on West 27th Street have topped out, along with new infill homes and a triplex nearby.

Yesterday's Trivia Answer

This labor leader, journalist and Cleveland high school namesake challenged Samuel Gompers for the presidency of the American Federation of Labor and ran for vice president on the Farmer-Labor Party ticket in 1920. Max S. Hayes

Check back tomorrow for the answer to today's question.

From the Editor

Ohioans aren’t waiting around this year. Nearly 195,000 people voted in person during the first week of early voting, almost four times as many as in 2022, according to Cleveland Scene.

Mail ballot requests are down, though, and the state eliminated the grace period for late-arriving absentee ballots. If you’re voting by mail, send it soon. If not, early voting runs through Nov. 1.

Either way, make a plan. Two weeks from today, it’s Election Day.

— Ron Ledgard, Managing Editor

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Ron Ledgard

Ron Ledgard is Cleveland Magazine's managing editor and a Pittsburgh native who has made his peace with Cleveland (except on Sundays). He's a University of Pittsburgh graduate, a veteran of The Athletic and the Akron Beacon Journal, and was there for every chapter of LeBron's Cleveland story. After two decades of chasing deadlines and box scores, he's happily landed in magazines. He's a sucker for a long story done right, the kind you save for a Sunday morning (before kickoff, of course). When he isn't editing, he's out on a trail, trying a new restaurant or hunting for the next great thing to do. Sports is his subject of choice, and coffee is his fuel. Most Starbucks baristas in the area greet him like the Cheers crowd greeted Norm.