Ridgeville voters weigh levies or tax credit option
NORTH RIDGEVILLE residents face a May ballot choice between two 2 and 1 mill levies totaling 3 mills or a continuation of a 75 percent income tax credit for workers in other communities. City officials project a 38 thousand dollar year end deficit and promise service gains if levies pass. The council plans a special session to place the measures on the ballot and to discuss a traffic enforcement unit and a mobile home zoning request from Emerald Estates on Center Ridge Road.
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North Ridgeville
Eugene C. Francis
R-2
Council
Janet Yalanty
Yalanty
Emerald Estates Inc
Elyria
Roy A. West
Emerald Estates
Center Ridge Road
Surprise vote fails to rescind Oberlin ban on disposables
Council vote ends 3-3 as Kinzer Habecker abstains while Geraldine Donaldson Al Wellington and Robert Thomas back repeal. Opponents David Sonner Dina Schoonmaker Harvey Gittler vote to keep ban in place amid debate over recycling and business impact. Nate Gerson fueled challenge with petition of about 300 signatures.
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Oberlin
Kinzer Habecker
Geraldine Donaldson
al Wellington
Robert Thomas
David Sonner
Dina Schoonmaker
Harvey Gittler
Habecker
Thomas
Wellington
Sonner
Schoonmaker
Mel Martens
Douglas Johnson
Nate Gerson
Convenient Food Mart
City Council
CEI Pays 1.7 Million in Lorain County Property Taxes
Cleveland Electric Eliminating Co remains a major taxpayer, paying 1,760,247 for Lorain County real estate taxes. CEI’s first half tax rose 83.5 percent due to a new turbogenerator, with Avon Lake Schools receiving 1,149,556 of 1,196,551 allocated to districts. Avon Lake city gets 358,984, Lorain County 199,010. CEI projects about 22.1 million in Ohio property taxes this year.
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Cleveland Electric Eliminating Co
CET
Lorain County
CEI
Avon Lake
Avon
Columbia
North Ridgeville
Sheffield Village
Clearview
Avon Lake City
David Burke
Ohio
Bay Village salutes Ice Follies skater Karen Kresge
Bay Village plans Bay’s Salute to Karen Night at the Cleveland Arena sponsored by the Al Koran Shrine with Mayor Henry Reese issuing a proclamation. Karen Kresge, 24, rising star of the Ice Follies, reflects on her start at 11 and ascent to featured roles, while honoring her Bay High roots and family.
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Bay Village
Karen Kresge
al Koran Shrine
Henry Reese
Follies
Hadsell Stone Easton
Salute
Karen
Glenn honored at 10th anniversary of orbital flight celebration
John Glenn attends a 10th anniversary ceremony at Cape Kennedy marking his first American orbital flight aboard Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. The event draws space agency members, astronauts, and civic leaders as the Atlas missile era area shows signs of aging and deactivation. Glenn reflects on the mission’s risks and the early limits of human spaceflight, noting the manual recovery that proved humans could function in space and paving the way for Moon landings.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
John Glenn
Launch Complex 14
Glenn
Washington
Space Agency
Air Force
Complex 13
Homeowners Association Claims 1967 Tax Statute Illegal
The Apartment and Home Owners Association of Cleveland plans a lawsuit to challenge a 1967 Ohio statute that exempted reassessment based tax increases. Executive VP Karl Duldner says the constitution prohibits taxes above 1 percent of true value without voter approval and warns that uniform reassessment rulings may cause further illegal tax hikes.
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Home Owners Association
Cleveland
Apartment and Home Owners Association of
Karl Duldner
Association
Culdner
Ohio
Duldner
Board of Tax Appeals
Firemen rescue mother and four children from mobile home blaze
Two New London volunteers discovered smoke at the Ed Fannin mobile home on East Washburn Street and rescued a sleeping mother and her four preschool children. Fire Chief Al Walters said a 1-year-old slept in a crib near the burning mattress, found after firefighters crawled through smoke.
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New London
K. B. Rowland
Ed Fannin
East Washburn Street
Rowland
Robert Zimmerman
Fannin
Brian
David
Walters
Welfare Recipients to Call for Checks in Elyria Lorain
Lorain County will require Able bodied general relief and ADC recipients to call in person for welfare checks beginning April 1 at Ohio State Employment Service offices in Elyria and Lorain. Recipients must register twice monthly as job applicants under a new plan aimed at reducing welfare and placing able workers in jobs. About 1,300 general relief and 2,700 ADC cases exist. aged disabled and blind aid will still receive checks by mail.
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Ohio State Employment Service
Elyria
Lorain
Lorain County
Gerard Prinz
State Employment Service
Prinz
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Ridgeville
Charles H. Stuart
Stuart
George L. Berrington
Oberlin Road
Amherst
C-T
John Kenney
Donaldson
Gittler
Powers and Dawley Clothing
West College Street
Break and
Gibson’s Bakery
Chronicle-Telegram
Ohio University
San Francisco
Bay High School
Kendall Junior College
Evansville
Chicago
James Kresge
Russell Rd
Jim
Ken
Bay High
Ohio General Assembly
Solar System
By Helen Payne
ADC
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