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Discussion of Middletown’s fire service future continues
Part two of Middletown City Council’s discussion of the future of the fire department resumes Tuesday night.A few weeks ago, city staff and council spent nearly two hours discussing the future operations of the Middletown Division of Fire, which included changing the operation model and creating new revenue streams through ...
Food drive totals down from 2012
The 2013 Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive brought in just under 50,000 pounds of food for the Shared Harvest Food Bank, which is about 10,000 pounds shy of last year’s totals.The two Hamilton post offices combined to bring in just more than 17,100 pounds of food, which is more than ...
Revitilization isn’t limited to the city’s bookends
It took several years for the East End and downtown to become a shell of their former selves, and city officials said it could take that long to rebuild them.Millions of dollars have been spent on road reconstruction on the East End with the recent work on Ohio 122 and ...
Farmers market planned downtown
A downtown business owner says Middletown is ready for a farmers market and intends to launch it by the First Friday event in June.Deborah Rumford, co-owner with her husband Don of The Music Store and Rumford Productions, wants to bring farmers and artisans to the former Swallen’s lot — which ...
HUD to respond to Middletown’s Section 8 proposal ‘shortly’
The U.S. Housing and Urban Development plans to respond to the city’s proposal and subsequent letters saying it will proceed with the reduction of 1,008 vouchers, according to HUD spokeswoman Donna White.“HUD has not approved its plan at this point,” she said. “We are working on a response and we ...
Healthcare law could mean more oversight, hiring changes for cities
Middletown and Monroe are meeting some of the major objectives of the federal health care law, but it may mean more oversight which means more tax dollars.The Affordable Care Act — more commonly known as Obamacare — takes full effect in January 2014, which means employers will have to offer ...
Chamber board picks a Middie graduate for its top spot
Rick Pearce has been hired as the new president and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce Serving Middletown, Monroe and Trenton, the chamber’s board of directors announced Thursday.Pearce, a 1981 Middletown High School graduate and a 1989 Miami University graduate, will succeed Dick Slagle who had been leading the 500-member ...
New brew business set to open
Brent Osborn is building it, now he’s hoping customers will come to his new specialized home brew store.Home brewing has been a growing industry, said Osborn, who will open Osborn Brewing at 820 Lebanon St. It’s seen a 20 percent to 25 percent annual growth for the past seven years, ...
Franklin woman indicted for scamming elderly victims
A Franklin woman was indicted Monday by a Warren County grand jury for allegedly stealing from 10 elderly people who stay in assisted living facilities in Franklin and Springboro.Megan Lucas, 25, faces more than a dozen charges including 10 counts of burglary, five counts of theft from an elderly person, ...
Fallen Middletown officers honored
Seven is a number every police officer in Middletown knows.That’s the number of officers who have died in the line of duty while wearing a Middletown Division of Police badge.They also remember 1939: The last year an officer died while on duty.Not losing an officer in the line of duty ...
7th new shop brightens outlook
The connection between Town Mall and home is now a little stronger. Don Craven and Joe Cox expanded their business, Home Connection, a home decor store, into the East End mall earlier this month. “We were looking at other locations and heard about the mall,” said Craven. “I was hoping ...
Ohio 63 extension project set for hearing
A plan years in the making designed to extend Ohio 63 from Ohio 4 to Wayne-Madison Road, and open untold economic development opportunities west of the Great Miami River, will finally be presented to the state. The Butler County Transportation Improvement District will get about 15 minutes to make its ...
Millions to be spent this year on road repairs
Potholes beware: City crews will begin repaving a dozen Middletown streets in the next two weeks.This year, the city will spend more than $5 million on road improvements, including the annual street paving, asphalt repair and pothole patching programs that City Council approved contracts for Tuesday.Of the $2 million council ...
City-owned land to be sold to neighbor
City Council agreed to sell a piece of land to a neighbor.Calvin and Tracie Williams, of 720 Auburn St., will be able to purchase the land at 722 Auburn St. for $500. The city had acquired the forfeited land that sits at the corner of Van Avenue and Auburn Street ...
Free downtown event comes with high price tag
When the Broad Street Bash concert series started in the summer of 2007, organizers saw it simply as a way to “get people to come down to Middletown after a work day and get some free entertainment.”Six years later, the Bash has blossomed into one of the premier summer entertainment ...
Energy audit reveals millions in potential savings
Middletown could save more than $204,000 a year by making energy-efficient upgrades and repairs to nine city-owned buildings, according to the city’s first energy audit in 17 years.The city spends more than $1.32 million annually in energy and maintenance costs and $91,000 in operational costs at its facilities, which include ...
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 ...
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