Hamilton crew removes 107 Verity Parkway light poles
A Hamilton Public Utilities Department crew removed 107 light poles along Verity Parkway under authorization from Middletown City Commission. No money changed hands. Hamilton will reuse the poles for city projects while new vapor lights are installed on Verity Parkway, with location of pole use not specified.
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Hamilton Public Utilities Department
Verity Parkway
Middletown City Commission
Hamilton
Hamilton Public Utilities
John C. Engle
Weith
Buses Should Share Says Helsel In City Plan
City managers and officials discuss a compromise revenue sharing bill as the House and Senate move toward approval. Dale Helsel outlines two thirds of expected funds for capital improvements such as parks and buses and a third for new programs including tree trimming after school recreation and traffic signals. He notes strings attach to federal money, with priority uses across streets buses public health and social services. Middles town projections sit between 818 285 and 1 064 415, with 916 216 in the compromise measure awaiting presidential signature after Senate approval.
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U.S. House of Representatives
Dale Helsel
Middletown
Senate
House
Nixon
Tree bid accepted for Weatherwax Golf Course trees
City commissioners reviewed bids for 1405 trees in 56 varieties at Weatherwax Golf Course. Siebenthaler Nurseries of Dayton submitted the winning bid of 57 723.47 dollars, while Oasis Landscaping of Dayton offered 76 319.30 dollars. Funds come from a Weatherwax family gift for trees on the course.
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Weatherwax
Siebenthaler Nurseries
Dayton
Oasis Landscapery
Weatherwax Family
Franklin Police Nab Suspects In Saddle Theft
Franklin police arrested two of three suspects after a barn break in near the IGA Supermarket on Clio 123 around midnight. The trio stole two saddles two saddle blankets a bridle and a halter. two suspects were taken near the river in Franklin. One man identified but not yet apprehended.
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Carlisle
IGA
Clio
Franklin
Sanitation Workers Seek Injunction Over Middletown Contract
Dayton attorneys Gary Snyder and Peter Rakay represent Local 856 AM of Ohio in Butler County Common Pleas Court. They seek a temporary injunction to halt the city of Middletown from implementing a private waste hauling contract and from abolishing the sanitation department. Briefs are due by Friday, with no hearing date set yet.
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Dayton
Gary Snyder
Common Pleas Court
Snyder
Peter J. Rakay
Butler County Common Pleas
Fred B. Cramer
Rating Given To Most Cabs
City inspectors graded 19 cabs with 4 good 15 fair and one poor exterior and 6 good 11 fair and two poor interior. Cab owners the Halls faced publicity and planned remedies while awaiting downtown redevelopment. City commissioners approved two hires and proclamations including Businesswomen's Week and American War Mothers Days.
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Ortman-Stewart Transportation Co
Duff
Broad Street
Carl Pepp
Thomas Mack
Department of Community Redevelopment
Pepp
Donald Smith
Carrie Jane Harvey
John L. Eisenman
St. John’s Catholic Church
WHB & Associates
Freedom Court
S. Breiel Boulevard
Jefferson Road
Butler County Metropolitan Housing Authority
Dale Hessel
Landfill Receives Ohio Health Highest Rating Amid Sign Troubles
City officials reported the landfill earned the highest rating from Ohio health officials after inspections. Planning officials target visual pollution from illegal signs on rights of way and in violation of ordinances, with a two stage cleanup. Council member James Saunders highlighted the need to curb signs seen along N Verity Parkway including the McDonald’s arch and truck‑planted signs.
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Ohio
Middletown
Deb Helsel
Helsel
Bob Metz
James Saunders
N. Verity Parkway
Saunders
Beerman Center Funded for Oxford Hillel Building
Miami University Hillel Foundation receives a 100000 grant from Beerman Foundation of Dayton to build the Arthur Beerman Center on E Walnut Street near campus. The project supports religious cultural and counseling activities for Jewish students at Miami University and Western College and aims for completion by late 1973.
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Oxford
Miami University Hillel Foundation
Beerman Foundation, Inc
Dayton
Miami University
The
Western College
Arthur Beerman
E. Walnut Street
United States
Minibike Crash Kills Teen in Defiance County Ohio
A 13 year old girl Jill Spires of Defiance was killed when a minibike she rode collided with a train near Defiance city limits. Sheriff's deputies reported the fatal accident occurred Monday in Defiance County Ohio.
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Defiance, Ohio
Jill Spires
Defiane
Defiance County
Carpet thefts reported in Butler County break-ins
Police report two break ins in Butler County over the last four hours with items stolen including four rooms of shag carpet a cafe doors set and a wagon wheel hanging lamp valued at 825 dollars from a vacant Mossman Road residence. A separate early incident saw two intruders steal two impact wrenches worth 100 dollars from Howard Fisher’s Frazee Road workshop. He chased them onto Frazee Road then followed them toward Ohio 744 in Preble County but lost them.
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Butler County
Mossman Road
Carl Miller
Meyers Road
Howard Fisher
Frazee Road
Somerville
Fisher
Ohio
Preble County
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