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Cincinnati City Council votes to name street Pat Barry Way after Cincinnati broadcaster
Cincinnati City Council is making another tribute to Pat Barry, the long-time DJ and weather anchor for WLWT and WXIX.
Hatch Street, between Louden and Wareham Street, in Mount Adams, will now be known as Pat Barry Way. Cincinnati recently lost one of its greatest cheerleaders to COVID. Pat Barry’s voice is interwoven in the fabric of Cincinnati, Council member David Mann said in a press release.
The motion, pushed forward by David Mann, was unanimously passed on Monday during a neighborhood committee meeting.
Cincinnati City Council members voted for the partial street name change on Wednesday.
A SECOND bid to turn a former pub into a mosque and Islamic education centre will be debated by councillors on Thursday. A previous attempt to turn the shell of the Little Harwood Inn in Whalley Old Road, Blackburn, into a place of Muslim worship and madrassah was abandoned in March after a 23-signature petition from 23 nearby residents opposing the scheme. But now a revised proposal from Blackburn-based Islamic organisation Dawat-e-Islami will be considered by councillors. Blackburn with Darwen Council Planning Committee has been recommended by officers to approve the scheme despite seven objections. A two storey dilapidated red brick barn in its rear yard would be demolished if planning permission is granted.
Memorial to Middleboro s only POW/MIA soldier updated with new picture frame
Bob Lessard
Recently, Wareham Street resident Bob Smith created a beautiful heavy wooden black picture frame to house the photo of William Mark Smith, Middleboro’s only Prisoner of War/Missing In Action soldier from the Vietnam War. Smith went missing in a March 1969 incident.
Bob Smith, no relation to William, designed the new frame for the POW/MIA chair displayed in the Town Hall lobby. At the request of Rolling Thunder, a group which advocated awareness of our military members “who have yet to come home.”
Recently, Smith and Chairwoman of the Middleboro Select Board Leilani Dalpe placed the new picture frame on the chair.
Fire erupts at 1800s building in Massachusetts town, marking 3rd significant blaze in community this week
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
An 1800s building in a Massachusetts town went up in flames Thursday evening, marking the third significant blaze firefighters in the community responded to this week, authorities said.
The three-alarm blaze in Middleborough started shortly before 6 p.m., spread across two buildings on Wareham Street and was eventually extinguished nearly three hours after it began, according to a statement from the town’s fire department.
“This was the third significant fire the Middleborough Fire Department has responded to in two days,” Middleborough Fire Chief Lance Benjamino said in the statement. “Thankfully, no injuries have resulted, and we’ve been able to call on several departments in the area to support our firefighting efforts.”