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Concord Park, Glenn Lotz, Parlin Manor, Grant Run Estates, Farmbrook Village, The Village At Gantz Park, Pinnacle Club, Parkway Crossing, Meadow Grove Estates, Westgrove, Barfield, Fountainview, Margies Cove, Willow Creek, Holton Run, Stonebridge, High Meadow, Pinnacle The Greens, , Barfield Heights, Pinnacle Links, Keller Farms, Meadow Grove South, Grove City Heights 2, Big Run Bluffs, Langford Meadow, Hoover Landings, Urbancrest, Pinnacle The Links, Alkire Lakes, La Rosa, Brookpark, Pinnacle, Enclaves Claybrooke, Wahl Estates, Gladman, Brookgrove, Simsbury Walk, Keller Farm, Marthas Wood, Villages At Pine Grove, The Willows At Quail Creek, Briarwood Hills 2, Quail Run, Meadowshire, Pinnacle/the Landings, Alkire Place, Hawthorne Woods North, Sawhill, Simbury Walk, Darbydale, The Greens, Grove City, Southfield, Auburn Village, Highland Park Plat 2, Woodlawn, Girbert, Hidden Meadows, Chestnut Farms Condominium, Ryan Estates, Ziner Farms, Claybrooke Crossing, Hennigans Grove, Castlefarms, Village At Hunters Crossing, Oak Grove, Pinnacle Greens, Pinnacle Manors, Villages At Pine Manor, Fountainview At Parkway, La Rosa Larosa, Ravine @ Quail Creek, Castle Farms, Mamie Kropp, Larosa, Emersonia, Rush Creek, Margie’s Cove, Annabelle Robinson Reserve, Heritage Glen, The Landings At Quail Creek, Quail Creek, Southern Grove, Enclave At Claybrook Crossing, Landings At Quail Creekl, Hoover Park, The Greens At Pinnacle, Villages At Gantz Park, Kingsbury, Winward Farms, West Grove, Virginia Military Dist 2542, Farmbrook, Westgrove Reserve C Sec 01, Hoover Crossing, Stoneridge Village, Deveron Highlands, Claybrooke Xing, Forest Creek, Indian Trail, Randall Estates, Ravine At Quail Creek, Monterey, The Cottages At Pinnacle, Autumn Grove, Beulah, Village At Pine Manor, Meadow Grove, Kingswood Heights, Hoover Landing, Kingswood Hts., Jackson Homes, Holton Park Estates, Oakhurst Knolls, Pinnacle Estates, Windward Farms, Jackson Home, Chestnut Farms, Ledgestone @ Indian Trails, Ledgestone At Indian Trails, Keller Farm East, Village At Quail Creek, Alkire Village, Villiage At Pine Grove, Thornhill Farms, Big Run Bluff, Monterey Park, Concord Lakes, Oakhurst, Meadow Ridge 01 Reserve A, Demorest Highland, Park Ridge, Christina Villas, Martha Woods, Forest, Haughn Glen, Willow Creek, Brook Park, Sherry Lynne Homes, Big Run Ridge, Elginfield, Scioto Meadows, Virginia Military Lands, Holt Park, Landings Pinnacle, Parkside Estates, Alkire Run, Indian Trails, Landings At Quail Creek, Willow View, Grove City Hts, Sussex Place, Meadow Grove Estates North, Willows At Quail Creek, Grasshopper Creek, Village At Hunters, Pine Grove, White Addn, Claybrook Crossing, Village At Gantz Park, Demorest Highlands, Hennigan’s Grove, Grant Run, Stoner, Pleasant Corners, Stoneridge Stone Ridge, Grove City Heights, Southfield Village Sec 2, Robin Estates, Demorest Cove, Willow Creek Woods 1, Chas White Addn 12, Chestnut Farms Condominiums, Oakgrove, Village At Pine Grove, Parkridge, Willow Creek Woods, Cottages At Pinnacle, Briarwood Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, Parkside Village, Kingscreek, The Mews At Pinnacle Club, Alkire Woods, Rural, Stoneridge, Landings At Pinnacle, Tanglebrook, Oak Hills, Enclave At Claybrooke, Parkside Village Condo Assoc., Jackson, Enclaves At Claybrook Crossing, Charleston Ridge, Landings Pinnacle Club, Highland Park, Briarwood, Anna Poorman, Southfield Village, Ravines, Hawthorne Woods, Village Pine Grove, Creekside, Pinnacle The Landings, and Grove City.
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Harrison College opens Dayton learning center
Laura Englehart Reporter – Dayton Business Journal Email | Twitter Harrison College Harrison College Latest from The Business Journals Leading the List: Colleges with highest student loan default ratesPromotions and Hirings: July 15Promotions and Hirings: July 1 Follow this company , which has campuses in Indiana and Ohio, has opened a pilot learning center in Dayton to serve online students in the region. The 3,000-square-foot learning center opened Jan. 9 on Presidential Drive in Fairborn to businesses and community groups for meetings. The space, which includes two classrooms, two computer labs, a medical lab, conference room and common room, will welcome students in the fall. Harrison College, formerly Indiana Business College, has 11 campuses in Indiana and one in Grove City. The school has about 6,000 students, both at its locations and online. About 2,000 students take classes online, exclusively, including 50 in the Dayton region, and another 2,000 are enrolled in at least one online class. The school hopes to double its numbers in Dayton by the time the learning center opens, said Chris Hutchinson, interim director for the location. The learning center — the first of its kind for Harrison — will support online students in Dayton with a space to study, access free Wi-Fi, borrow a laptop, or interact with instructors or fellow students. Harrison College provides associates and bachelor’s degrees within its schools of business, health sciences, information technology, criminal justice and veterinary technology. It also has a culinary division. Hutchinson said the college set up a learning center in Dayton not to compete with schools in the region, but to capture an underserved demographic that includes working parents, especially mothers, and those with an associate degree who would like to earn a bachelor’s degree. Students at the college are an average 27 years old and [...]
Read More >>Outage goes as planned – this time
GROVE CITY — The third time was the charm as a scheduled power outage in Grove City went as planned Sunday. “Things went very well,” said Vance Oakes, borough manager. “We started shutdown around 5:20 (a.m.), and in two hours the power was restored.” The borough had planned the outage for 5 to 7 a.m.; however, its engineers and Penn Power’s engineers consulted at the Park Street substation about taking extra precautions in turning off the power. The borough had the power outage to plug in a new transformer to another transformer already on site. The new transformer replaced the borough’s third, oldest one. On Dec. 11, the borough had an outage to unplug wiring from old transformer into its second one to prepare for the delivery of the new machine made for Grove City by General Electric. That planned half-hour outage lasted nearly three hours, due to an unforeseen malfunction of a switch at the substation that turned off the borough’s power. Penn Power was called in to deactivate the switch from its power source behind the substation, so the borough could manually close the switch to restore power to residents. A second outage was planned Dec. 18 to split wiring between the new transformer and second one. However, General Electric spent that weekend welding the new transformer, which had a small leak. Sunday’s outage was scheduled to finish the plugin. Workers took the opportunity to clean and adjust some different switches at the substation as well, Oakes added. The malfunctioned switch is expected to be replaced by spring or summer, he noted. The borough is now receiving power from both transformers, at 4,160 volts. However, it has been replacing its electrical wiring and utility pole transformers little by little for the past two years in town, which it [...]
Read More >>Council, administration to hold retreat
By Sarah Sole ThisWeek Community Newspapers Friday January 27, 2012 12:23 PM Grove City Council and the city administration plan to work on their communication skills during a retreat on Jan. 28. Lance Decker, of LL Decker Associates of Phoenix, Ariz. will facilitate. Mayor Richard “Ike” Stage said the council has been divided for as many as six years. “It seems like there’s an expanded number of 3-2 votes, 4-1 votes,” he said. “There’s no need to have that kind of environment for the good of the city,” he said. Council president Ted Berry disagreed. “I don’t think that’s the case at all,” he said. “Ninety-nine percent of all the issues, we all agree on.” Stage said he knows of no similar retreats since about 2006, when a moderator facilitated communication between administration and council regarding town center revitalization. City administrator Phil Honsey said he worked with council clerk Tami Kelly, who worked on behalf of council president Ted Berry, to select a facilitator. “We check out the references of that facilitator and found them to be excellent,” Honsey said. Honsey said it’s important that all parties make their best efforts to communicate well, become better listeners and adequately represent the community. “A lot of organizations do this,” he said. “There’s no question that there have been lines drawn over certain issues,” Honsey said. Still a retreat focuses on moving forward. “It’s a positive exercise,” he said. Berry said he wants to draft a list of priorities that would include city parks, the downtown area, and other construction projects that the majority of council can agree on. While everyone will not completely agree, “we need to try to be on the same page,” he said. Berry stressed the importance of checks and balances. “Nobody wants a rubber stamp government,” he [...]
Read More >>Man Arrested For Allegedly Stealing Bread Rack
Grove City police said Friday that they arrested a man in connection with the theft of $3,000 worth of bread racks from behind the Giant Eagle store on Stringtown Road. According to investigators, a Schwebel’s employee came to the store to pick up the racks and reported that they were missing. That employee gave police a license plate number of a person he suspected was the alleged thief. Police told 10TV news that surveillance video also showed the man taking the racks and leaving the store in a red pick-up truck. Police said they found the man quickly. Frito-Lay also reported some of its racks were stolen from the same Giant Eagle. Grove City police said that the description of the person involved in that case matched description of the person arrested. The name of the man arrested was not immediately released. Stay with 10TV News and 10TV.com for additional information. Article source: http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/01/27/Grove-City-Bread-Racks-Stolen-From-Giant-Eagle.html
Read More >>Auction Calendar, Jan. 28, 2011
THURS., JAN. 26, 10 AM Truck Tractors, Straight Trucks and Trailers • Bettendorf, IA US Auctioneers, Inc 800-992-2893 • 563-332-5444 Se ad in Jan. 14 IA MO issues. THURS., JAN. 26 10 AM Greenhouse Equipment – 181 36 County Rd. D62, Monticello, IA Sunset Greenhouse Backes Auctioneers 800-876-8070 THURS., JAN. 26, 11:05 AM Tama County Real Estate Traer, IA Appraisal Real Estate Services 319-478-2990 See ad in Jan. 7 NE/SE IA issues. THURS., JAN. 26, 2 PM Land Auction – 5 to 7 Tracts in Otoe Co., NE • Nebraska City, NE Farmers National Co. Jerry Wiebusch, Agent 402-430-8489 See ad in our Jan. 7 SW IA issue. FRI., JAN. 27, 10 AM Union Co., IA Land Auction 201 Cherry St. Creston, IA Raymond Nadine Wasteney West Frey Auctioneers 641-344-1958 or 641-344-5082 See ad in Dec. 31 SE/SW IA issues. FRI., JAN. 27, 5 PM Land Auction Community Bank, Vinton, IA Shreeves Trust Iowa Land Management 877-718-LAND SAT., JAN 28, 9:00 AM Annual January Consignment Auction – Paris, MO Wheeler Auctions Real Estate 660-327-5890 or 660-327-1806 See ad Jan. 14 21 IA/MO issues. SAT., Jan 28, 10 AM Farm Machinery Auction Taylor Ridge IL – Gloria Hofer Estate DePorter Auction Service 319-738-9333 See ad in Jan. 14 NE/SE IA issues MON., JAN. 30, 9:30 AM EST Annual Farm Equipment Auction 6407 N. ST Rd. 15, Leesburg, IN Polk Equipment, Inc. 574-453-2411 MON., JAN. 30, 10 AM Land Auction Malden, MO Community Center Debra Luke United Country – Missouri Land Home • 800-895-4430 See ad in our Jan. 7 MO issue. TUES., JAN. 31, 10 AM Equipment Online Equipment Marketers 319-266-3578 TUES., JAN. 31 10 AM 260 A. of Taylor Co. Iowa Land New Market, IA Community Center Leroy Rosemary Lynch Collins Auction Service 712-542-0266 See ad in our Jan 7 [...]
Read More >>Shop owner charged with Olympics memorabilia theft
SALT LAKE CITY – Prosecutors have charged a consignment shop owner with forging documents to steal $1 million in property, including Olympic memorabilia, from a high-profile booster of Utah’s 2002 Winter Olympics. Court papers filed Thursday in Salt Lake City charge Constance Lynn Millet with counts of theft by deception and forgery. The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/ABwm0Y ) Millet owns My Finer Consigner in Pleasant Grove. Court papers say Alma Welch and Millet had a limited consignment agreement, but contend Millet altered the documents to take all the property in Welch’s home and storage units. Among the items taken was a 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games torch. Welch is the ex-wife 2002 Games bid chief Tom Welch. Defense attorney Ron Yengich says the matter is a civil dispute, not a criminal one. Article source: http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/01/27/shop-owner-charged-olympics-memorabilia-theft
Read More >>From Drew Barrymore to George Lucas: The Inside Story on the Second Homes of …
To get a sense of the rarefied world of Santa Barbara real estate, one need only look to the recent moves of Dick Wolf. The Law Order creator bought a house years back in the area’s tony neighborhood of Montecito, where the neighbors include Ivan Reitman, Jeff Bridges, Robert Zemeckis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Google exec chairman Eric Schmidt (who bought Ellen DeGeneres‘ house for $20 million in 2007) and Oprah Winfrey (whose Georgian estate was appraised in 2008 at $85 million). 3 Crazy Tricks for Selling Real Estate in a Down MarketHollywood Real Estate Development Under Threat Jodie Foster, Rihanna, Khloe Kardashian Among Hollywood’s Biggest Industry Real Estate Deals of the Week (Photos) One thing Wolf apparently found lacking was a suitable driveway. So in 2010, he purchased an adjacent house for $5.5 million. Set on two acres, the six-bedroom residence was built by architect George Washington Smith around 1923 in Santa Barbara’s signature Spanish Colonial Revival style. Over the last year, as THR has learned, the show creator made extensive improvements to it and, natch, installed a driveway on the east side of the property leading to his own house. He’s now looking to off-load the George Washington Smith for $9 million. According to the county planning office, Wolf has most likely set up an easement that will exclude the new owners from access to his new driveway. PHOTOS: Biggest Industry Real Estate Deals of the Week While Wolf’s pursuits have flown below the radar, Santa Barbara — which offers those looking to buy second houses distinct charms, from beachfront estates to pastoral hideaways in the hills — has seen a number of headline-generating sales and listings in the past 12 months or so. Two new part-time residents are George Lucas and Drew Barrymore, both of whom bought houses a [...]
Read More >>Port St. Lucie hopes to once again market Southern Grove to attract new businesses
PORT ST. LUCIE — Southern Grove seems to be the city’s best-kept secret, but officials hope to change that by marketing building incentives to attract new businesses and jobs to the underdeveloped area. Assistant City Manager Greg Oravec said that during numerous interviews with community and business leaders to determine how they would like to see the 3,606 acres west of Interstate 95 developed, many of them said the first step is marketing. “That was huge in the stakeholder interviews,” Oravec said. “Where’s the marketing for this? It’s fallen off the face of the earth the last couple of years. That’s part of the reason we don’t see more out there.” According to Southern Grove’s Community Redevelopment Plan, the million-dollar marketing campaign by previous Tradition developer Core Communities was the key to success for the master planned community. Highway billboards advertising the lucrative strip of land south of Tradition Parkway promised shopping, homes and high-tech careers. Then the 2007 recession hit. PSL Acquisitions foreclosed on Tradition’s developer in February and took title of Southern Grove. Marketing campaigns ceased and so did interest in development. “The development has essentially been on ice for two years or more,” states the redevelopment plan. “We cannot afford to be a secret.” Oravec said the most cost-effective and simplest ways to recruit clean businesses and attract desired development is to partner with business and property owners in Southern Grove on marketing efforts and provide incentive programs to chip away at the high cost to build. Future investors are facing almost $10 million in annual assessments on the land because of $156 million in bonds the city issued in 2004 to pay for infrastructure, such as roads and drainage. According to city documents, the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser calculated Southern Grove, once a $1 billion [...]
Read More >>Floods damaged over 100 homes in Lane County
EUGENE, Ore. – More than 100 homes suffered damage in last week’s floods, prompting the county to declare an emergency. Reports have already come in from Cheshire, Deadwood, Cottage Grove, Florence, Eugene, Mapleton, Junction City, Springfield, Veneta, Vida, Swisshome and West Lake, the county said. Early damage assessments found more than $900,000 in damage to public inrastructure. Lane County continues to work to tally damages and encourages community members and business owners to continue to report initial damages. You can report damages online at www.lanecounty.org/damages or call the Sheriff’s Office Phone Bank at 541-682-3977 Noon – 8 p.m., each day through Sunday, January 29. The Lane County Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 to adopt an order for Emergency Declaration in Lane County. This 4-0 vote, with Commissioner Pete Sorenson absent, came early Friday afternoon. County officials plan to make a summary report on damages to the State of Oregon on Monday. Article source: http://www.kval.com/news/local/Floods-damaged-over-100-homes-in-Lane-County-138235519.html
Read More >>Silva introduces legislation to make Mello-Roos fees tax deductible
The following information was released by the office of Assemblyman Jim Silva. Yesterday in Sacramento, Assemblymember Jim Silva (R-Huntington Beach) introduced legislation that would ease some of the tax burden of owning or buying property. Assembly Bill 1552 codifies Mello-Roos fees as tax deductible. Since 1982, Mello-Roos fees have been used by some neighborhood communities as a way to fund projects without using traditional property taxes, which are limited by Proposition 13. Recently, the Franchise Tax Board introduced a campaign to make income tax filings and deductions more complicated by seeking to eliminate a property owner’s ability to deduct local benefit taxes for maintenance or other repairs, a common use of Mello-Roos fees. This new policy will affect millions of homeowners across California and will cumulatively increase property taxes by as much as $140 million. “The state is always looking for ways to capture more and more taxpayer money and this is a new low. By going after Mello-Roos fees, the state is actually taxing a tax. It is another way to go after Californians’ wallets and must be stopped,” Silva said. Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers’ Association, commented, “In the middle of the worst foreclosure crisis in 70 years, we must do everything possible to ensure homeowners retain the property tax deductions they’ve been receiving for the last 30 years. I support AB 1552 and applaud Assemblyman Silva for stepping up and fighting this blatant money grab.” Assemblyman Jim Silva represents the 67th Assembly District, which includes the communities of Anaheim, Cypress, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, La Palma, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Seal Beach, Stanton, Sunset Beach and Westminster. Related articles Assemblyman Silva responds to Governor Brown’s proposed 2012-2013 budget (oc-breeze.com) Jim Silva says trigger cuts show Democrats’ priorities (oc-breeze.com) Article source: http://www.oc-breeze.com/2012/01/27/8402_silva-introduces-legislation-to-make-mello-roos-fees-tax-deductible/
Read More >>New AEP rates stun small businesses
By Dan Gearino The Columbus Dispatch Friday January 27, 2012 3:55 AM 1 utf-8 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language: mso-fareast-language: mso-bidi-language:} Some small-business owners are furious about a sudden rise in electricity costs, the result of a new American Electric Power rate plan that took effect this month. With immediate increases of up to 40 percent, business owners said they are faced with cutting workers, reducing investment and making other changes as they struggle to deal with an increased expense that many of them did not see coming. “ Honestly, am I going to put my next machine here or in my plant in Tennessee?” asked Patrick Castro Jr., vice president of Electro General Plastics in Grove City, whose electricity costs have risen 35 percent. “ Tennessee is looking a little bit more business-friendly.” AEP says the new rates reflect the cost to provide service, and that what might seem like a big increase is because the previous rates were unusually low for certain types of customers. The Dispatch reported last month that the AEP plan would lead to large rate increases for small businesses, much larger than the average rates disclosed by the utility. The story cited internal emails from a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio staff member who raised concerns that the rates were unfair and would be harmful to many businesses. At Plastic Packaging Technologies on the Northwest Side, executives are reconsidering plans to expand. The company is based in Kansas City, Kan., and could shift its resources elsewhere. “ This is very dangerous and very damaging,” said David Potter, the vice president and general manager. “We’re in a very competitive market, [...]
Read More >>House Bill Enacting Fraud-Reporting System Passsed By Ohio Legislature
COLUMBUS, Ohio – House Bill 66 which creates a reporting system for Ohio citizens and public employees to report the fraud, waste and abuse of tax dollars is now waiting for the Governor’s signature. State Representatives Cheryl Grossman (R-Grove City) and Mike Duffey (R-Worthington) announced the House of Representatives concurred with Senate changes and passed the bill unanimously. House Bill 66 will now be sent to Governor John Kasich for his signature. According to the State Representatives, House Bill 66 will require the Ohio Auditor of State to maintain the Ohio Fraud Reporting System for anonymously reporting fraud and compel government entities to provide information about the fraud reporting system to their employees. Under the Ohio Whistleblower Protection Act, it also protects those employees who report the misuse of public resources to the toll-free hotline, Auditor of State’s web site or through the U.S. Postal Service. For additional information, stay with NBC4 and refresh nbc4i.com.To submit a story idea or news tip, e-mail stories@nbc4i.com. MORE: NBC4 Local News | Local Crime NewsNBC4 SPORTS: Sports News, VideoNBC4 POLITICS: Headlines, Interactives Video Article source: http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2012/jan/26/house-bill-enacting-fraud-reporting-system-passsed-ar-911439/
Read More >>Mid-Ohio Foodbank opens pantry at Grove City site
By Rita Price The Columbus Dispatch Thursday January 26, 2012 2:57 PM The Mid-Ohio Foodbank doesn’t just supply the 550 emergency feeding sites and food pantries in its service area. It’s now a colleague trying to do the same work. With the opening today of the Kroger Community Pantry at the food bank’s Grove City site, Mid-Ohio becomes the first food bank in the state to operate a pantry out of its building, officials said. Matt Habash, Mid-Ohio’s president and CEO, said the pantry at 3960 Brookham Dr. also is a “ learning lab” that will help the giant food bank do a better job serving its partner agencies. With pantry use at record highs in many areas, the volunteers and employees who run them are pressed to streamline the intake process, expand inventory and help with nutrition education. Pantry coordinator Mark Mollenkopf said the pantry gives Mid-Ohio the chance to study logistics and operations from another viewpoint. “We have 3,000 pantries that I can help by being the guinea pig,” he said. Kroger was the lead contributor to the pantry, working with other local donors and companies to support the project. Safelite Auto Glass Foundation is helping to stock the pantry for its first year of operation. For more information about Mid-Ohio, go to www.midohiofoodbank.org. Article source: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/26/Mid-Ohio-Foodbank-opens-pantry.html
Read More >>Grove City crews move ahead with projects, ready for weather
Crews are hard at work on several major projects in the Grove City area, including the construction of a new water tower and the Eagles-Rotary Shelter House at Fryer Park. One of the most ambitious undertakings in Grove City right now is the reconstruction of Interstate 71 at state Route 665 on the southern edge of the city. Crews are dismantling the remainder of the old bridge this week, and will continue working on the project throughout the winter. Grove City Director of Public Service Les Spring said winter storms won’t affect that project any more than they will other traffic in the Grove City area. Central Ohio has been lucky so far this season, with several 50-degree days punctuating the region’s normally frigid winter weather. But snow is sure to come at some point, and Grove City officials are prepared. The city has about 1,200 tons of salt on hand. If winter remains relatively tame, it should be more than enough to last through the remainder of the season. At the end of January last year, six inches of snow fell on Grove City in a matter of hours, and a 12-man crew laid down 280 tons of salt — 28 dump trucks full — to keep the city’s 200 miles of roadways safe and passable. Spring said how long the supply of salt lasts will be determined by what weather comes this way over the next several months. “So far, it has been mild,” he said. “But we still have February and March to go. It’s Ohio, and the weather changes every hour. The weather predictions I’ve heard call for a normal second half of the winter.” The city is well equipped to handle winter storms, with eight large trucks outfitted with plows and salting equipment. When the [...]
Read More >>Judge orders apartment owners to restore heat, hot water by Monday
Hundreds of residents of a Lincoln Park apartment building that has been without heat and hot water for days may get relief by Monday. Cook County Circuit Judge Daniel B. Malone ordered LA Pine Grove LLC and Lakeview Associates, which operate the 14-story building at 2738 N. Pine Grove Ave., to install a temporary chimney by Monday until the permanent chimney, which leaks carbon monoxide, can be repaired. The temporary chimney can be connected to the building’s boilers and water heaters, allowing the building’s services to be restored, a city attorney said in court. Don Wilson, an attorney for the building owners, said his clients are doing everything they can to fix the problem. He said they weren’t aware of the chimney’s problems, which he said they could not have foreseen. “No one wants this to happen,” Wilson said. “They acted as quickly as possible to get it remedied.” Heat and hot water were shut off to the 14-floor building after holes were discovered in the chimney, which had caused carbon monoxide to leak into the building, city officials said in a court filing. Managers had also suggested that residents buy space heaters and use open ovens for supplementary heat, a major fire hazard, officials said in the filing. Officials also learned that managers found that the building has not submitted an emergency fire plan to the city. The judge also ordered the building’s owners to hire licensed fire guards to patrol the building 24 hours a day until the temporary chimney is installed. In addition, owners were ordered to tell residents not to use ovens or stoves for supplemental heat, keep a property manager and staff on site at all times, meet with the tenants to discuss safety procedures, disconnect all nonvented gas heaters, and remove propane tanks from [...]
Read More >>Utah consignment shop owner charged with theft of Olympics memorabilia …
SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors have charged a consignment shop owner with forging documents to steal $1 million in property, including Olympic memorabilia, from a high-profile booster of Utah’s 2002 Winter Olympics. Court papers filed Thursday in Salt Lake City charge Constance Lynn Millet with counts of theft by deception and forgery. The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/ABwm0Y ) Millet owns My Finer Consigner in Pleasant Grove. Defense attorney Ron Yengich says the matter is a civil dispute, not a criminal one. Court papers say Alma Welch and Millet had a limited consignment agreement, but contend Millet altered the documents to take all the property in Welch’s home and storage units. Among the items taken was a 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games torch. Welch is the ex-wife 2002 Games bid chief Tom Welch. Defense attorney Ron Yengich says the matter is a civil dispute, not a criminal one. ___ Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com Article source: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/709c40240b2b454ea96b5d853736aec5/UT–Olympic-Memorabilia-Theft/
Read More >>Indian Creek watershed management effort begins
City of Cedar Rapids workers prime a pump to pump rain water collecting on the “dry side” of a 500 foot long tiger dam built along Cottage Grove Parkway SE on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, in southeast Cedar Rapids. The dam was built to protect homes from potential flooding of Indian Creek. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) For local government officials and other stakeholders, Thursday was the first step toward the future of Indian Creek. It’s also developing a model for tackling larger Iowa waterways. “It’s to listen to them, about what they want for their watershed and what they’re thinking about,” said Stacy Langsdale. Langsdale, of the Army Corps of Engineers’ Institute for Watershed Resources in Alexandria, Va., helped run the first in a series of workshops to create a vision for a sustainable future along the stream. The immediate priorities will guide the watershed management agency created in November. About 60 people attended a daylong brainstorming session at Marion City Hall Thursday, which was followed by an open house. By the end of the day, the walls of the city council chambers were decorated with ideas jotted on large sheets of paper. Lessons learned creating Indian Creek’s management plan will be put to use on similar plans along the Cedar and Iowa rivers authorized by Congress after the region’s June 2008 floods, Langsdale said. “We wanted to do the whole basin, but it was too big too manage,” said Langsdale. “So we decided to come at Indian Creek as a pilot study.” The Corps will host three more workshops by early summer, Langsdale said. “We’ll be happy if by the end of the workshops we’ll have had a conversation about the trade-offs of the development alternatives,” she said. “Enough to develop a plan to meet the goals” set during the [...]
Read More >>Bethel Village Expansion Larger than Downtown Mission – WJHG
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Read More >>Living on the margins
view slideshow (7 images) Shaun and Will Spencer scrambled to stuff a few clothes and personal items into their backpacks as the rainfall intensified during the afternoon of Jan. 19. The brothers grabbed their bikes and vigorously pedaled north on MacArthur Drive about a mile into Tracy. Moisture can spell misery for the men, who have only so many clothes to choose from, living on the streets. “Look at my shoes — they’re loaded with mud,” 29-year-old Shaun told his brother. “I know, man. I’m getting soaked. We need to split,” the 28-year-old sibling responded. The plan was simple: get into the city to find a dry location where they could stay until the rain passed. “You can’t mess around and get wet out here, because this is all you got,” Shaun said as he grabbed his jacket and hooded sweatshirt with both hands. “We have some spots that we go to, but you got to go wherever you can to get out of this.” The men rode their bicycles away from the homeless encampment that has reportedly existed for years — tucked in a grove of trees along an irrigation ditch beside Valley Recycling, 24504 S. MacArthur Drive. About 10 or so sleeping spots are scattered across an area roughly the size of a football field. Several of the tents — including one dug into the hillside with steps carved out of the dirt and logs reinforcing three sides — suggest that long-term residency. The camp sits silently during the warmer months, as foliage blocks the activities of its homeless occupants. However, during winter months when the leaves fall off the trees, the Spencer brothers believe scrutiny intensifies as the camp becomes exposed and draws attention from many residents in the neighborhood on the opposite side of MacArthur Drive. Residents’ [...]
Read More >>Erie man sentenced to 8 years for bank robberies
An Erie man has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for robbing several banks in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The Erie Times-News reports ( http://bit.ly/xECXNt) 47-year-old Jeffrey Witscher apologized to the tellers of the five banks during his sentencing Thursday in federal court in Erie. The string of robberies began Nov. 20, 2009 when Witscher demanded money from the Farmers National Bank in Grove City, but left empty-handed. It ended on Dec. 30, 2009, when police caught him shortly after he tried to rob the First United National Bank in Franklin. In between, Witscher robbed the PNC Bank in Millcreek Township, another PNC branch in Waterford Township, and the Andover Bank in Andover, Ohio. The heists overall netted him about $12,000. Witscher pleaded guilty in August. ___ Information from: Erie Times-News, http://www.goerie.com Article source: http://www.timesonline.com/news/state/erie-man-faces-fed-prison-for-bank-robberies/article_f98bc5d2-921c-55e1-bf34-e704fa1f6e03.html
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