Nela News & Updates

NELA Park’s 100th year of dazzling Greater Clevelanders with amazing holiday lighting displays: editorial

In 1924, when the first switch was pulled on the first holiday lighting display at East Cleveland’...

Dec 28, 2024 • Cleveland.com

Nela Park’s Christmas Light Display Goes Dark After 100 Years With No Festivities for 2025 Season

Light decorations at the 2024 Nela Park Christmas installation. Credit: J. Mark Souther For a centur...

Dec 08, 2025 • Cleveland Scene

Finding former Nela Park decorations around Cleveland (video)

CLEVELAND, Ohio — For a century, the pilgrimage to East Cleveland was a holiday staple. Families w...

Dec 22, 2025 • MSN

Nela Ticket movie review: When will filmmakers learn that rape jokes are not funny?

“Chuttulo Janam, Mathilo Manam” loosely translates to ‘surrounded by people, amid them we live...

May 25, 2018 • Hindustan Times

Girls in Stem: 2 women are behind GE’s Nela Park Christmas display, which lights up Dec. 6

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — You might call her Santa’s elf. For the past 16 years, Debbie George has ...

Nov 22, 2019 • WKYC3

Another "Michigan" For Nela Lopusanova At Olympic Qualifier

It's been almost two years since Nela Lopusanova took the world by storm as a 14-year-old scoring a ...

Dec 12, 2024 • Yahoo! Sports

Rochester’s Tim Nela is ready for the Mayhem

Putting on a show the way wrestling does is a physical task.But Rochester’s Tim Nela has bought in...

May 30, 2026 • KAAL TV

Lights out for Cleveland’s beloved tradition: Nela Park’s display goes dark after 100 years

For a century, the Nela Park Christmas light display in East Cleveland served as a brilliant beacon ...

Dec 11, 2025 • Cleveland.com

Evolving tradition: Why the classic Nela Park Christmas displays are no more, and where you can see them

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) – In 2024, GE Lighting at Nela Park in East Cleveland celebrated the 10...

Dec 10, 2025 • FOX8 Cleveland