Middletown buys land from Atrium for fire station, may ask voters to approve levy in November
Atrium sells acres for $80K, far less than going rate, says city manager.
Nick Graham, Journal-News staff
Middletown city council voted for the city to purchase this 2.7-acre parcel of land near Ohio 122 and Atrium Boulevard as a site for one of its four new fire stations. The property is owned by Premier Health/Atrium Medical Center.
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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio â Middletown is one step closer to replacing four fire stations, including headquarters, after city council unanimously approved an emergency resolution Tuesday night, the Journal-News reports.
Premier Health agrees to sell land at deeply discounted price for Middletown fire station site
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January 22, 2021
His branches ruffle in the light breeze under a brilliant sun, a lone sentry in a clearing surrounded by the traditional guardians of Ohio’s forests. The hemlocks, maples, white ash, and sycamores seem to watch over him, giving the youngster the space and energy to grow. And he has.
Illustration by Andrew Davison
At age 3, he’s already more than 12 feet tall, and his distinctive foliage suggests he is healthy and ready to reign as the King of Hocking Hills. Instead, he’ll likely wither and die within the next 10 years.
As pioneers poured over the Allegheny Mountains in the 1780s and began settling eastern Ohio, they passed under the canopy of millions of American chestnut trees. We would be awestruck by what they saw: mammoth brownish-gray columns of bark towering 100 feet in the air, the first branches not poking out until halfway up to heaven before splaying their splendor in a crown of green sawtooth leaves.