Greening of mall urged in careful downtown project
Middletown's $15 million downtown mall will feature interior plantings, but planners face light limits and weather concerns. Officials favor conservative, right plant choices and will hire experts while city approves species amid 180 cloudy days a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike McLeod
Middletown
Paul Christiansen
Christiansen
Ohio
Warren Klink
Klink
Christansen
Donham moves maintenance bill for mall upkeep
Middletown State Rep. William Donham has introduced a bill in the Ohio House to let cities bill property owners for maintaining publicly owned malls. The measure shifts upkeep costs from public funds to private landowners under defined conditions.
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Middletown
William Donham
Ohio House
Donham
Ohio Municipal League
Dale Helsel
Chamber of Commerce
Denham
Middletown Toastmasters Meet Aces District Contest
Charles Mulligan led Middletown Toastmasters at Eastern Lanes with Bob McGehean as topicmaster. Tom Dineen won the topic session and Mulligan was named best speaker after district contest in Cincinnati.
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Vernon Helton
Middletown
Toastmasters Club
Eastern Lanes
Bob McGehean
Tom Dineen
Charles Mulligan
Mulligan
Mariemont Inn
Cincinnati
Lebanon workers rehired after walkout demand
Three city workers fired last December for walking off their jobs have been rehired. Larry Wood Tommy Bond and John Washam were rehired after filing with the Civil Service Commission. They were among 18 city workers fired under Ohio Ferguson Act which bars strikes by public employees.
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Lebanon
Larry Wood
Tommy Bond
John Washam
Civil Service Commission
Ohio
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Zoning variance reversed in Middletown auto repair case
Butler County Common Pleas Judge Arthur J. Fiehrer reversed a variance granted by the Middletown Board of Zoning Appeals for an auto repair garage in an alley east of Main Street. The 1973 grant to Franetta Realty, Inc. was ruled unreasonable despite a no outside storage condition. J. K. Billman sued, alleging improper notice and unlawful hearings.
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Butler County Common Pleas
Arthur J. Fiehrer
Middletown Board of Zoning Appeals
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
Main Street
J. K. Billman
S. Main St
Fiehrer
Franetta Realty, Inc
Zoning Appeals Board
Billman
Boy Taken From School By Police After Knife Incident
An 11-year-old Garfield Elementary student was disarmed of a large butcher knife at Taft Elementary and carried out by officers. No injuries occurred as the youth resisted and threatened violence before being taken to the Butler County Juvenile Detention Center. two other 11-year-olds faced gun seizures at Jefferson Elementary with a ruling pending after mental tests.
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Garfield
Taft
Butler County Juvenile Detention Center
Hamilton
Jefferson Elementary School
Brink's guard robbed at NCR education center
Two gunmen in their mid thirties robbed a Brink's guard delivering cash to NCR technical education center in Miamisburg. They forced the guard to lie on the floor and escaped with an undetermined but sizable sum before a second guard noticed. Brink's offers 10000 dollar reward for information.
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National Cash Register Corp. Technical Education Center
Brink’s
Former judge loses driving privileges in Lebanon case
Robert Ray, Lebanon attorney and former Warren County judge, was fined 150 dollars plus costs, banned from driving for 30 days, and ordered to attend a problem drinkers class after a jury found him guilty of driving while intoxicated in Lebanon Municipal Court. The conviction followed a November charge based on a highway patrol stop on Ohio 123. the jury had reached verdict in March. Ray previously served as judge on the county court, common pleas court and probate juvenile court in Warren County.
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Lebanon
Ray
Ohio 123
County Court
Common Pleas Court
Probate Juvenile Court
Warren County
Three Women Injured In Springboro Crash
Three young women were injured in a two car collision at the Ohio 73 and Bunnell Hill Road junction. Gale Brown 20 of rural Sidney suffered multiple fractures and is listed in satisfactory condition at Kettering Medical Center. Chris Bensman 20 from Sidney sustained a fractured forearm. Marge Mather 18 of Bay Village received abrasions. Another young woman was shaken but not seriously hurt. Victims were transported by Clearcreek Life Squad just before 5 p.m.
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Springboro
Kettering Medical Center
Ohio 73
Bunnell Hill Road
Gale Brown
Sidney
Chris Bensman
Marge Mather
Bay Village
Clearcreek Life Squad
Arson blamed in two Girard Avenue house fires
Two fires on Girard Avenue destroyed a vacant two story home at 1230 and damaged the neighboring house at 1228. Gasoline was found in the first blaze and two firefighters were injured lightly while extinguishing the fires. Damage estimated at eight thousand dollars.
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Girard Avenue
Girard Ave
Wendt
No charges yet in man's death in Cincinnati hospital
Middletown police said no charges have been filed in the death of Peter Grazynkowicz who died after a gunshot during a struggle at the Jungle Tavern on Clinton Street April 1. Donald Kroger of Hill Avenue was named as the shooter but had not been arrested. no ruling on cause of death. Funeral services for Grazynkowicz will be Monday at 10:30 a.m. at Joseph K. Baker & Sons with burial at Grace Memorial Park. He is survived by his wife Joyce a son Joseph a daughter Sue his mother and stepfather Orville Brown a brother William Drew and sisters Beth King and Catherine Worlds.
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Herb Pfaff
Buck Swanson
Verity Parkway
Marsden Barnet
Girard Ave
Arch Johnson
Herb Trimble
Middletown
Peter Grazynkowicz
Cincinnati General Hospital
Grazynkowicz
Clinton Street
Donald Kroger
Hill Ave
Kroger
Joyce
Joseph
Sue
Orville Brown
William Drew
Beth King
Catherine Worlds
Chicago
Retired Education Official to Join Ohio School Officials Group
J. E. Jack Brown, longtime director of elementary and secondary education at the Ohio Department of Education, will serve as part time secretary for the Ohio Association of School Business Officials in Westerville Ohio.
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Westerville, Ohio
J. E
Jack” Brown
Department of Education
Ohio Association of School Business Officials
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