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City Council Candidate to share priorities agenda

City Council Candidate to share priorities agenda

PLEASANT RIDGE, OH (FOX19) - Following the Neighborhood Summit on February 16, Cincinnati City council candidate Michelle Dillingham will announce her comprehensive issues agenda.

The announcement will take place in Pleasant Ridge at Beans and Grapes, 6200 Montgomery Rd, 45213.

Joined by key community leaders Dillingham will share what she plans to prioritize while on City Council. These include: creative ways to increase revenue, a genuine plan to create jobs through proven strategies and partnerships, ensuring affordable housing options, and upholding safe and thriving neighborhoods for all.

Election results from Central Cincinnati

Election results from Central Cincinnati

CINCINNATI,OH (FOX19) - Here are results from some major races from the central areas of Cincinnati.

 

 

Deadline for Wyoming city council applications

Deadline for Wyoming city council applications

WYOMING, OH (FOX19) - The Wyoming City Council is seeking applicants to fill the unexpired term of Councilman Will Papa, who resigned his position effective October 17. 

Interested citizens should send a letter of interest and resume to Mayor Barry Porter, 800 Oak Avenue, Wyoming, OH 45215 by October 29, at 5:00 p.m.  Application materials should be sent via email to bporter@wyomingohio.gov, via fax to (513) 821-7952, or dropped off to the address listed above.

According to Mayor Porter, the Wyoming City Charter requires that City Council fill vacancies within 30 days.  Applicants must be registered voters who have lived in the City for at least one year.

Councilman Papa has resigned due to job relocation.  “Will has been a strong contributor and we will miss his insights and experience.” Mayor Porter said.

Romney visiting Downtown and Carthage

Romney visiting Downtown and Carthage

 

CINCINNATI (FOX19) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is making a trip to the Cincinnati area Wednesday and Thursday, and then returning to Ohio for a weekend trip.

Romney, who has clinched the nomination and is campaigning against President Obama, is holding a fundraiser Wednesday night at the Hilton Netherland Hotel in Downtown.  Early Thursday afternoon, he will make a visit to Seilkop Industries off North Bend Road in Carthage.  Seilkop owns five businesses that make different types of precision metal parts.  The Romney campaign hasn’t said what the theme of the visit will be.

Obama campaign opens office in Cheviot

Obama campaign opens office in Cheviot

CHEVIOT, OH (FOX19) – Wednesday, local Obama supporters are gathering for the grand opening of the latest Organizing for America-Ohio (OFA) office in Cheviot, with guest speaker Katherine Archuleta, who serves as the National Political Director for the President’s re-election campaign.

The event is scheduled for 7:00 p..m. at 3722 Harrison Avenue.

Illustrating Ohio’s important to the campaign, Obama already has offices in Middletown, Mason, East Walnut Hills, and Forest Park, in the Cincinnati area, as well as Wooster, Warren, Defiance, Mentor, Lima, Bowling Green, Toledo, Beavercreek, Youngstown, New Philadelphia, Athens, Parma, Columbus, Dayton, Shaker Heights, Chillicothe, Ohio State University, and Troy. The campaign says the Cheviot office will serve as a community hub for 2012 election activities.

By way of contrast, the only office listed for Indiana or Kentucky on the Obama campaign website is one in Louisville.

City workers can win cash awards for innovative ideas

City workers can win cash awards for innovative ideas

CINCINNATI (FOX19) – Nine city workers who come up with new ideas are in line for prizes supported by a grant from a local foundation and judged by local business leaders.

Monday the City of Cincinnati, with grant support from the Seasongood Good Government Foundation, launched the 2012 City of Cincinnati Innovation Awards program. The City and Seasongood wish to recognize and encourage City employees whose creativity and tenacity positively impact the Cincinnati community. “The Seasongood Foundation is pleased that this award-winning program is being restarted in a new format,” said David Altman, Executive Secretary of the Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation. “The project will offer another incentive for public employees to innovate and enhance services for our citizens. This effort is at the very heart of the “good government” that the Foundation seeks to stimulate.”

73 years later, maps of veterans’ burial sites complete a long, strange trip

73 years later, maps of veterans’ burial sites complete a long, strange trip

 

CINCINNATI (FOX19) – In the throes of the Great Depression, workers with the Works Progress Administration, an agency that put unemployed people to work, created a set of maps intended to show every burial spot for veterans in Hamilton County, from the Revolutionary War through what was then called the World War.

Less than 20 years later, the records were transferred to microfiche, and in the 1970’s, the Hamilton County Recorder’s Office made what could have been a costly decision.  They decided to get rid of the books, not knowing that the printed text would last better than the microfiche, which has been deteriorating, frustrating historians and genealogists for decades.

Wednesday, the original books were unveiled, having survived a series of moves that might have led to their disappearance, if a few people hadn’t sought to preserve them.