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Is the Castellini quote made in Hamilton haunting?

By Josh Rinaldi | Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 01:00 PM

Despite winning last night, the Reds still have lost their most recent series to the Astros and the Rockies and have a sub-.500 record. As the team has continued its mediocre ways, I can’t help but think of when Reds owner Bob Castellini came to Hamilton in January.

Castellini, the keynote speaker at the Chamber of Commerce annual dinner, proclaimed before a crowd of 400 that the Reds would be a competitive ball club this year. Most notably, he said, “If we don’t win this year, we might all get fired and I’ll start by firing myself.”

Thoughts?

I couldn’t find the story online, but I’ve copied and pasted the Jan. 26 story from our in-house archives.

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Market Street cavity

By Josh Rinaldi | Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 09:56 AM

We’ve gotten several calls since the story was published today about the cavity under Market Street that is collapsing the road. Most just wanted more information about the history of the canals, which they found fascinating.

I found this old article by local historian Jim Blount about the canals. Read all about it here.

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Wikipedia on Hamilton

By Josh Rinaldi | Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 10:09 AM

Have you ever looked up Hamilton, oh on Wikipedia? If not, you should check it out. Where else would you find tidbits like “Hamilton is one of the few towns located at the intersection of 4 consecutively numbered highways—US 127, and State Routes 128, 129, and 130. Additionally, since State Route 126 is just south of the city, it could be argued that it lies at the intersection of 5 consecutively numbered highways.”

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City thanks West Side residents

By Josh Rinaldi | Monday, July 28, 2008, 02:58 PM

I received the following press release from the Hamilton Electric Department. It thanks West Side residents for obliging when they asked them to help conservative power a few weeks ago. The release:

“The City of Hamilton and the Electric Department would like to thank west side residents and business owners for their cooperation the last 3 weeks. Electrical demand was significantly reduced and thus certainly helped prevent rolling blackouts.

The emergency repairs to the substation 7 (across from the High School) are complete and the Electric Department has informed the Mayor and City Manager that all businesses can return to normal operations and all residences are free to set their thermostats to normal levels.

By summer of next year, substation 12 along Carlisle and Stahlheber roads will be complete adding significantly to the electrical capacity on the West Side. Again, the City thanks everyone for their cooperation.”

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City council to meet tonight

By Josh Rinaldi | Monday, July 28, 2008, 09:27 AM

City Council will meet in a special session at 4 p.m. tonight. Council has two items on the agenda, which would have had to wait until August 13 had they not called a special meeting.

The first item is a resolution relating to the Meldahl hydroelectric project, which the city is starting this summer.

The other item is authorizing a feasibility study for a joint city-county water system. The County Commissioners passed a similar resolution last week.

The meeting will be in Council Chambers on the first floor of the city municipal building, 345 High Street.

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Towed away

By Josh Rinaldi | Thursday, July 24, 2008, 04:28 PM

The city opted to own its own impound lot Wednesday. Though, it will only receive cars from police tows. The story has not made it online yet, but essentially any vehicle that is involved in a crime will go to the city impound lot. Vehicles involved in accidents and other “owners-request tows” still go to private impound lots.

Police Chief Neil Ferdelman said the impasse in concession negotiations led to the decision. You can read his remarks here: Ferdelman comments.pdf

Other documents Ferdelman used for support: Here’s a comparison of other towing rates: comparative rates.pdf

Also, here’s the business pro forma that describes how much money the city thinks it can make: proposal.pdf

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Oil and water

By Josh Rinaldi | Thursday, July 24, 2008, 08:58 AM

Hamilton’s Manager of Utility Services Doug Childs recently emailed me an article about how water could quickly become more scarce than oil.

His email said “It predicts that water will replace oil as the most scarce and sought after commodity in the world. Hamilton’s water production and distribution systems are clearly even more critical to the long-term economic well being of the City.”

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