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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 allocations from the state’s Hardest Hit Fund (specifically, the sun-setting Neighborhood Initiative...

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. “It is a long road to the November election but I really appreciate everyone putting their trust in m...

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 if there’s a bad guy there or something,” said Reagan Slaubaugh, 8, of Marietta, as she kicked a ...

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 (John) Halliday’s secretary today and it will be ready for him to review Monday morning,” reported ...

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 a convicted felon, Jason Warner will no longer be eligible to serve as a judge. The crash was inves...