Downtown Central Avenue closes as mall project begins
Central Avenue will shut to all traffic between Main and Verity Parkway starting Monday to begin a 2.6 million downtown mall canopy project. Broad and Central will close later as work advances toward Canal Street with new curbs and pavement, reversing downtown traffic flow and enabling heavy construction within weeks.
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Central Avenue
Central
Main
Verity Parkway
Broad
Dave Clark
Clark
Canal Street
Broad Street
Downtown Demolition and New Mall Plans Take Shape
Middletown area officials announce next week’s teardown of several sites including a Dillman supermarket and Starr Furniture. A mid summer rush of construction follows, with Weber's Cafe relocation and a $1.6 million 500 car parking garage bidding in May. City, federal officials and contractors will hold a pre construction conference this afternoon and a mall groundbreaking is planned for next week.
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Dillman
Verity Parkway
Starr Furniture
Central Avenue
Wall Alley
Weber’s Cafe
Clark
Grocers defend price hikes on beef and meat
Local grocers attribute rising beef prices to a mix of taxes grain export policy subsidies and food stamp effects while noting households still get broad value. Retailers cite limited imports and high demand as key factors with some blaming tax structures and government policy for the sustained costs.
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Téd Pollard
Russia
Dillman
Stan Sorrell
Sorrell
Lee McGee
McGee Super Markets
U.S
McGee
Agriculture Department
Dick Trimble
Trimble
Taxpayers vow suit over Barkelew sale split city vote
Former City Commissioner Mary Lord indicates a taxpayers suit will be filed to challenge the sale of the Barkelew building to Manny Garlikov for 95000. City board approved 4-1, preferring Garlikov over Riley Upton at 110000 amid a prior gentleman's agreement.
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Mary Lord
Barkelew
Manny Garlikov
Garlikov
Ead
Riley Upton
Miss Lord
Dale Helsel
Tilmon Ellison
Ellison
Destructive dog back home after rampage
Hercules the German Shepherd, four years old, terrorized a Lemon Township resident during a storm, damaging a door and a screen. Detective Charles Nixon held the dog in his garage until owner Aaron Steinmetz could retrieve it at about 4 p.m. The dog’s owner lives on Hamilton Middletown Road.
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Hercules
Lemon Township
Charles Nixon
Viola Shackelford
Hamilton-Middletown Road
Nixon
Cerberus
Land of the Dead
Aaron Steinmetz
Hamilton
Middletown Road
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Penney
Reinartz Boulevard
Manchester Avenue
Columbia Avenue
Central and
Freeman Jewelry Store and Welfare Finance
Journal
Columbia
Manchester
Middletown
Area News
Grocers
Roger Dillman
Dillman’s Markets
Thom Hall Journal
Rogers Jewelers
Rogers
Rogers Souter
McAlpin’s
Kenney’s
Kenny’s
Cin
Dayton Rd
Eric von Klinger
Steinmetz
the Jug
Central Ave
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