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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In late April 2021, a legislative committee in the Ohio House held its second hearing to consider creating a $100 million grant program, exclusively for county land banks, to fund commercial building demolition. Ohio’s land bank statutes are recognized as a national model, uniquely providing an opt-in for county commissioners to direct tax collections to fund their county land banks’ activities. That revenue model, coupled with al...

Ten ballots remaining in 3rd Ward Primary PORTSMOUTH -The results from Tuesday’s 3rd Ward primary answered one question, but left one unanswered. What is known at this point is that Andy Cole will be moving on to the November General Election. He took 143 of the 290 tallied votes, good for nearly half of the votes. “Thank you (so) much for all your help,” he said in a Facebook post after the results were released from the Scioto County Board of Elections just before 9 p.m. on Tuesday. “...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Left to right: Second-grade students Ry D’Ettore, Reagan Slaubaugh and Logan Husk kick a soccer ball at Harmar Elementary School in view of the blighted public nuisances at 115-117 Gilman Ave. in Marietta on Monday. (Photo by Janelle Patterson) Two weeks to the day from the court declaration of blight and public nuisance, 115-117 Gilman Ave. still loomed in the overcast background of Harmar Elementary play Monday. “We talk about that place being haunted and i...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com 115-117 Gilman Ave. in Marietta have been declared by the Washington County Common Pleas Court to be both a blight and public nuisance as defined by Ohio law. Deadlines and timelines are still drawing scrutiny in Marietta following a court declaration of blight and a public nuisance on Gilman Avenue. But the court’s deadline for the city law director to return a journal entry was not met Monday, nor each subsequent day through Wednesday. “I talked with Judge (Jo...

Apr 14, 2021 (MARION, Ohio) —A Marion County Common Pleas Court judge and his wife have been sentenced to two years in prison stemming from a June 2020 hit-and-run that injured a 19-year-old man, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today. Judge Jason Warner and Julia Warner were found guilty of complicity to leaving the scene of an accident, a felony of the fourth degree, and complicity to tampering with evidence, a felony of the third degree. Under Ohio Revised Code Section 2961.01, as...

Letters to the Editor In this town, its no surprise developer wins out over community garden The Dispatch reports that a property developer is evicting a community garden near Children’s Hospital (Tuesday, "Community garden to be displaced by 10 new homes in South Side neighborhood near Nationwide Childrens Hospital"). The top part of the article lays out the developer’s arguments for this eviction; it is not until much further down that Michael Doody of the community garden expresses his ...

Mar 10, 2021 (MARION, Ohio) — A Marion County Common Pleas judge and his wife have been found guilty of multiple felony charges stemming from a June 2020 hit-and-run that injured a 19-year-old man, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today. ‘It’s almost a cliché – the coverup is worse than the crime. Here, the most serious crimes were what happened after the crash – and a sitting judge should have known better,” Yost said. “This case shows that even the most powerful people...

Health department levy fails certification By Braden Moles - bmoles@aimmediamidwest.com PREBLE COUNTY — A recent health levy brought forth by Preble County General Health District failed certification for the May primaries after discovery of a “fatal error” by the Preble County Board of Elections. The tax levy, which was a 0.6 mil replacement with an increase, was certified by Preble County Auditor Lavon Wright after a meeting on Monday, Feb. 1. The Preble County Board of Commissioners th...

Ohio Attorney General Yost seeks to suspend Cleveland City Councilman Ohio Attorney General Yost seeks to suspend Cleveland City Councilman By Brian Koster and Michelle Nicks | February 26, 2021 at 2:23 PM EST - Updated February 26 at 10:15 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a request to begin suspension proceedings against Cleveland City Councilman Kenneth Johnson Friday. Yost tells Cleveland 19, “Everybody’s presumed innocent until they’re proved g...

MAYORAL MISSTEPS? Problems arise for 3 of 4 Lima candidates AUTUMN SWANSON JOSHUA HAYES … on probation for a felony marijuana possession charge ELIZABETH HARDESTY … Hearing set after her Lima residency questioned LIMA — Controversies of varying degrees surround three of the four candidates who will square off in May to become the next mayor of Lima. Mayoral hopeful and former city neighborhood specialist Autumn Swanson on Wednesday entered a written plea of not guilty in Lima Municipal...