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Cooper site could be salvage yard
The owner of the Crowell-Collier Building is looking to establish a salvage yard at the former Cooper Energy Services site, 1401 Sheridan Ave, nearly two months after the city forced it to stop placing crushed cars and other salvage at the location.According to public documents, Crestline, Ohio-based Mosier Industrial Services ...
Village to supply water for pool
The South Charleston Pool, 208 E. Columbus Road, will open on Memorial Day weekend with the help from Village Council.The council will allow the South Charleston Pool Board to perform community service in lieu of paying its more than $5,000 water bill to allow the pool to operate this summer.“We’re ...
Tecumseh could be on ballot 2 more times
Tecumseh Local Schools will have two more chances to pass a levy for new operating funds — one in August and another in November — before a possible state takeover of the district.Tecumseh Superintendent Brad Martin said the district already plans to put another levy on the August ballot. If ...
3 Clark school issues fail, 1 approved
Voters rejected Tecumseh, Clark-Shawnee and Greenon school issues but approved Springfield’s request in Tuesday’s primary election.Tecumseh Local Schools lost its ninth straight request for new operating money. The 12.37-mill levy would have raised $3.5 million per year for the district.The school board already approved placing the same levy on the ...
Springfield voters OK bond issue
Springfield City Schools voters on Tuesday approved a 2.2-mill bond issue to be used for maintenance and safety improvements.The district will allow a 2.43-mill levy to expire, meaning no increased taxes as a result of the bond issue, which will generate $14 million over 12 years.“We’re extremely gratified and appreciative ...
Tecumseh rejects 9th straight levy
Tecumseh Local Schools lost its ninth straight request for new operating money when voters narrowly rejected a ballot issue Tuesday.The 12.37-mill levy would have raised $3.5 million per year for the district.The school board already approved placing the same levy on the August ballot.“We’re very disappointed, but we knew we ...
Gee joins chat about new Springfield school
Ohio State University President Dr. E. Gordon Gee called the Springfield-based Global Impact STEM Academy one of the “more innovative” programs it’s involved in that will help provide job opportunities for students.Gee answered questions about the academy Tuesday in an online chat along with Bruce McPheron, vice president for agricultural ...
8 votes separate Shawnee issue
Clark-Shawnee’s new operating issue — a 10-year, 7.59-mill levy to raise $2.5 million per year — is likely headed for a recount after being initially rejected by eight votes Tuesday.State law prohibits local boards of election from counting provisional and late-arriving absentee ballots until 10 days after the election. The ...
City sells land to business for $10K
The city of Springfield has sold land to a local business complex looking to expand its parking lot.Les-Ken Properties LLC bought approximately an eighth of an acre between the complex on Mitchell Blvd. and the National Trail Parks and Recreation District’s Carleton Davidson Stadium for $10,000.Complex owner Leslie Hidy, who ...
Society to take over News-Sun archives
The Springfield News-Sun finalized an agreement Friday to donate its news archives to the Clark County Historical Society.“It makes good sense for us to get these valuable photographs, stories and papers in the hands of qualified archivists who can preserve them and allow them to be seen and used by ...
$1.2M downtown traffic project to start
The city of Springfield will begin construction this month on its $1.2 million two-way street conversion and streetscape improvements downtown on Fountain Avenue.The block of North Fountain Avenue between Columbia and Main streets will change from one-way to two-way traffic. The project also includes brick pavers, new sidewalks, decorative street ...
Hobson lands role on nuke panel
Former U.S. Rep. Dave Hobson, R-Springfield, has been appointed to a congressional panel overseeing the federal agency maintaining the nation’s nuclear weapons.As part of this year’s defense bill, the panel will seek ways to improve the National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-independent agency affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy, ...
Agency expands, buys former bus station
A local non-profit organization will expand its energy assistance program to a new location downtown, filling a long vacant building. Opportunities for Individual Change of Clark County, 10 S. Yellow Springs St., will move its Home Energy Assistance Program, or HEAP, into the former Greyhound bus station, 600 W. Main ...
City changes code to help with loans
A change to city code will allow residents to rebuild non-conforming structures if they’re destroyed and ease the process of selling and refinancing these types of buildings.According to a section of the city’s previous non-conforming code, a structure that is non-conforming and that is destroyed by fire, act of God ...
Springfield office, retail center expanding
The developer of a new office complex on the site of the former Roosevelt Middle School has plans to expand, including with a proposed 18,000-square-foot building.Construction on a retail/restaurant spot at the Limestone Center development could also begin construction at the same time as the office building, likely in the ...
Springfield could supply water to Yellow Springs
The city is in talks to supply water to 4,000 customers in Yellow Springs, but the village first must decide the fate of its 50-year-old water plant.Yellow Springs must choose whether to rehabilitate its water treatment plant, build a new plant or connect to Springfield’s water line.“It’s a complicated issue,” ...
Off-duty deputy thwarts Cassano’s robbery
A Yellow Springs man suspected of robbing a restaurant while an off-duty deputy was ordering dinner there pleaded not guilty to the charge on Monday. Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Leasure said he noticed the suspected robber, 20-year-old Keida Johnson, wearing his hood in a vehicle next to him as ...
City takes over graffiti cleaning trailer
The city of Springfield will take over ownership of a graffiti cleaning trailer after the county learned it cannot use money from the Clark County Waste Management District for it.County officials spoke with the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office earlier this year and it was determined the unit cannot be paid ...
Boston residents with Springfield ties face ‘scary’ day
Former area residents now living in and around Boston waited indoors and communicated with friends and relatives back home Friday during a lockdown and manhunt for the remaining suspected Boston Marathon bomber.South Charleston native Dakotah Waugh, a 2006 Southeastern High School and 2010 Cedarville University graduate, lives in nearby Malden, ...
Brownfield site to get $395K project
The first brownfield the city cleaned up will finally get a new use when it become the hub for an expanding local business, bringing new jobs and tax money in exchange for a tax abatement.After more than a decade since the rehabilitation began, the former D&H Manufacturing site, 1601 Sheridan ...
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