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City set to spend $1.5M on road repairs
Nearly $1.5 million is set to be spent this year on road repairs thtoughout the city.A dozen Middletown streets will have at least some part of them re-paved this summer.City Council is set to approve Tuesday the annual street paving project for 2013, and John R. Jurgensen Co. is slated ...
Crack pipe, needle found in back of police cruiser
Middletown Division of PoliceApril 30While the resident was in the hospital, someone broke into an apartment in the 3900 block of Helton Drive and stole a TV, radio, food, $5 in change, grey comforter and prescription medications.May 1Someone walked into Walmart, 2900 Towne Blvd., loaded a HP desktop computer, valued ...
Business owner remains hopeful despite tough times
Business has been difficult in recent years for Gibson’s Office Furniture, but the company’s owner remains hopeful.Owner Sherry Gibson said the great recession that affected so many business has hit the office furniture store, but she remains optimistic. She had succeeded in spite of downtown Middletown, and now she hopes ...
Job creation helps in downtown growth
Since Cincinnati State Middletown opened this past August, about 100 jobs have been created in downtown. Unemployment in Middletown has exceeded 10 percent from 2009 to 2011, and has been consistently below 10 percent since February 2012. But the efforts of the city, businesses and downtown champions are doing what ...
River seen as key to city’s future
Mayor Pat Moeller relished seeing something downtown that’s been a rarity in recent years: event parking signs pointing toward the Great Miami River. The RiversEdge Park and Amphitheater opening ends a two-month commemoration of the Great Flood of 1913. After a year of construction, the project’s first phase - costing ...
Yankee Road work important to city’s economic development future
Nearly $9 million in federal, state and local funds will be spent over the next several years in reconstructing portions of Yankee Road, a key industrial corridor with companies that have brought millions of dollars of investment and more than 200 new jobs to Middletown.About $3.1 million worth of improvements ...
2 arrested after trying to sell stolen vehicle batteries
Middletown Division of PoliceApril 29One day after they were reported stolen, people tried to sell four truck batteries to Cohen Brothers. Workers from Cohen Brothers called police and said someone was trying to sell the batteries that were reported stolen from Neal’s Auto Service, 2090 Oxford State Road. Police also ...
Food pantry needs rise as school year ends
Thousands of Butler County residents go hungry every year, and since the near economic collapse more than five years ago, that number has steadily rose.Every spring, the National Association of Letter Carriers attempts to help reduce the pressure food pantries have with depleting supplies. A couple hundred thousand letter carriers ...
College to host workforce development open house
Being able to train the workforce in the greater Middletown area was one of the key reasons the city recruited Cincinnati State Technical & Community College to open a downtown campus.The Middletown campus will host an event May 16 to showcase the partnership with Middletown businesses and the college’s Workforce ...
Police Memorial Service to remember, honor officers who have died
Police Week this year will be capped by honoring the members of the Middletown Division of Police at an awards ceremony, but it starts remembering those who had been killed in action.In 1962, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed May 15 National Police Officers Memorial Day, and the week in which ...
‘Second Dynasty’ author at First Friday
“The Second Dynasty” author Richard Paul Jones became a Middies fan in 1944 after seeing the team beat Dayton Kiser 50-7 at the Fairgrounds Coliseum.The book tells about the run Middletown High School basketball had from 1946 to 1957: playing in 10 Final Fours, winning seven state titles, earning two ...
Man with ‘golden voice’ shares his story of redemption
Former homeless man Ted Williams’ message to the crowd at the Celebration of Service Expo Friday at Miami University Middletown was one of hope, love, God and change.He lost a family and promising radio career because of drug and alcohol additions, had been arrested for several crimes including robbery, theft, ...
Lack of amenities keep Cincinnati State students from hanging around downtown
City officials were hopeful that Cincinnati State Middletown would give downtown a revitalization boost by increasing foot traffic when it opened last August.And while hundreds have taken classes at the campus and several businesses have since opened, some students said besides coming downtown for school-related needs, many don’t hang around ...
City, schools alter revenue sharing agreements
Two revenue sharing agreements that have paid the Monroe School District more than $1 million a year from tax incentive dollars have been slightly amended.In back to back nights, the Monroe Local Board of Education and Monroe City Council approved amended two pieces of legislation, one amending the Residential Improvement ...
New tenant to occupy vacant Kmart building
The vacant Kmart building at the Eastgate Shopping Center on Roosevelt Boulevard is one step closer to being filled.Tractor Supply Company is planning to open a new store at the old Kmart, 4655 Roosevelt Blvd. The company recently received unanimous support by the Middletown Planning Commission to permit conditional outdoor ...
Manchester Inn gets interest from potential buyer
The Manchester Inn & Conference Center may have something several vacant buildings want: a potential buyer.There are about a dozen vacant properties downtown and can be bought for less than $100,000, and some are looking for a tenant. The city-owned former hotel that closed in January 2011 has a heftier ...
Middletown airport to have new manager soon
Start Aviation is set to be the permanent manager at the Middletown Regional Airport/Hook Field, after serving as the interim manager since January. Middletown Economic Development Program Manager Matt Eisenbraun, who is the city’s employee liaison to the airport commission, said a contract is “working its way through the system” ...
Police want bar’s liquor license revoked
Because of hundreds of calls for service in the past two years, the city’s police department said it wants to see Miller’s Lounge lose its liquor permit. City Council voted to request a hearing to review the expiring liquor permit for Miller’s Lounge with the Division of Liquor Control. The ...
Top government administrators say their roles have changed over time
The top county, city and township administrators are the highest paid among public sector jobs, but often are held accountable for every aspect of their community. The Hamilton JournalNews evaluated 1,506 salaries for employees who earned at least $60,000 in salary and benefits for county, city, township, law enforcement and ...
City’s new landlord registration process begins July 1
The city officially announced its landlord registration plan earlier this week, which will make use of the city’s water bills.City officials expressed a need in early 2012 to register landlords, mainly because of a number of out-of-town landlords who were only identified by a P.O. Box address. The city presented ...
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