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Monday, April 21, 2008
Side-mounted signals
A contractor has been hired to remove the side-mounted traffic signals on Main Street at the intersections of C, D and E streets.
A federal safety grant is paying for 90 percent of the project, which is expected to top $300,000. Sharon Smigielski, public information officer with the Ohio Department of Transportation, said the change is expected to reduce accidents in those intersections by 70 percent.
She said there were 408 accidents in those intersections in a 3-year period.
The side-mounted signals will switch to the standard signals this construction season.
Will you be sorry to see the side-mounted signals go or have you had one too many close calls from a driver who didn’t see the signals?
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Hamilton!
In the mid-1980s, city officials voted unanimously to add an exclamation mark to the city’s name.
Think Yahoo! or Jeopardy! and you’ve got the right idea. Theoretically, Hamilton is the only city in the country to officially have an exclamation mark adopted as part of its name.
Read all about it here.
For the most part, the city has moved past the exclamation mark, but it can still be seen in various places. Take the Welcome Center for example:
Do you have any memories of when Hamilton became Hamilton!…?
