Among the many accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic's devastating impact on the arts is at least one local success story: the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival. Forced to go virtual in 2020 and hybrid in 2021, the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival still averaged 33,000 film fans from 28 states.

St. Vincent Charity Medical Center at East 22nd Street in Cleveland will close its emergency room and inpatient services by Nov. 15 and has given 978 workers warning that they may be laid off.

Randell McShepard of Beachwood, vice president of public affairs and chief talent officer of RPM International, Inc. in Medina received the AJC Cleveland 2022 Richard H. Adler Community Leadership Award Sept. 20 at the Mimi Ohio Theatre in downtown Cleveland.

Tim Ryan and J.D. Vance have agreed to debate after all. But their campaigns are still not entirely on the same page. In dueling press releases, Vance and Ryan have spent the past month squabbling over when and where they can debate.

The Ohio State University in Columbus has established a center for advanced semiconductor fabrication research, or CAFE, using a three-year, $3 million award from Intel Corporation.

Intel Corporation and the U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $10 million partnership Sept. 8 to train and build a skilled semiconductor manufacturing workforce.

Longtime faculty leader J.B. Silvers and alumnus and investment executive Andrew Medvedev were announced as interim co-deans of the Weatherhead School of Management.

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