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This past Monday, Oberlin City Council scheduled a public hearing for June 5 at 6 p.m. to consider a recommendation from the City Planning Commission to rezone a parcel of land along State Route 58, directly north of the retail complex that includes the Walmart Supercenter — from a Business, Commercial, and Retail District into...
On Monday, City Council held a work session for an affordable housing proposal created by the affordable housing subcommittee in the social equity committee and Revitalization Strategies Group, Inc. City Council and affordable housing subgroup members Ray English, Eboni Johnson, and Elizabeth Meadows led the work session. The public was invited to ask questions and...
The Oberlin City Council approved an ordinance on April 3 that will allow the City of Oberlin to receive financial compensation from a 2022 national settlement in relation to the opioid epidemic. Several corporations from the settlement that were accused of irresponsible practices which furthered the crisis in the United States will be paying at...
The Office of Environmental Sustainability signed a contract last month with Old Slate Farm — a sheep and cut flower farm in Mount Vernon, OH — to bring sheep onto campus that will eat the grass around the College’s solar panels. The contract will bring around 150–200 sheep to mow three times this year —...