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WLWT Meteorologist Allison Rogers married her husband Josh Robinson in a small ceremony in August following his cancer diagnosis. The couple said they wanted "to be a team" as Robinson went into treatment. PROVIDED/ CHRISTINA RULE AND KERRI HOFFMAN
18-HOUR ENGAGEMENT WLWT meteorologist marries amid husband’s cancer diagnosis Sarah Brookbank Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
WLWT meteorologist Allison Rogers and her husband Josh Robinson were only engaged for 18 hours before tying the knot in August. That wasn’t exactly the plan, but after a cancer diagnosis fl ipped their world upside down, they took the plunge into marriage and haven’t looked back. Robinson, 31, and Rogers, 27, of Hyde Park, had already been looking at engagement rings before Robinson was diagnosed with classical Hodgkin lymphoma. The cancer was caught early and his prognosis is good, they said. “Obviously, that fl ipped our world upside down,” Robinson said. After the diagnosis, they decided to skip the engagement and do a courthouse wedding. “It just seemed like what made sense,” Rogers said. On Aug. 14, after a day of appointments preceded by a week of appointments, they made it to the courthouse “with no time to spare,” Robinson said. They made the decision to get married the night before. On Thursday after Rogers got off work, they picked out their rings and took them home that night. They were married after Robinson’s appointments were fi nished on Friday.
After the ceremony, the couple celebrated at Ault Park with close friends and family. The following Monday, Robinson’s treatment began. Ironically, the couple will both get their way about the wedding they always wanted. Robinson always wanted a big wedding but Rogers wanted a small courthouse wedding. In the future, they plan on having a larger event, that way they can celebrate their marriage with friends and family who couldn’t make it on short notice. “Both of us just wanted it to be private, so that way when we do celebrate with everyone it’s the fi rst time they get to see it,” Robinson said. “Nothing between the two of us has changed,” Rogers said. “Life is different, obviously since we got married.” “We’re getting the in sickness part out of the way,” Robinson said. The couple has been spending more time together due to the pandemic and while they’re sad to miss out on trips, it’s made them a stronger couple. “Our bond has really grown, especially now. That’s one of the positives… I don’t know if you can really say that but it’s one of the things that I keep reminding myself,” Rogers said. “We’re going through something a lot of couples our age don’t have to and I think we’ll be stronger for it in the end.”
Homearama homeowners face $10K annual assessment Randy Tucker Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
Lisa Silverthorne said her dream of owning one of the luxury homes showcased at this year’s Homearama in Cincinnati has quickly turned into a nightmare. In September last year, Silverthorne said she and her husband purchased a lot from the developer and signed a contract to build their new home in the Walworth Junction development in Cincinnati’s East End neighborhood. Silverthorne’s home was one of eight million-dollar homes featured at last month’s Homearama showcase of luxury homes, the fi rst held inside the city limits in the history of the show. But now that the show’s over and she’s preparing to move in, Sliverthorne
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said she and her husband are reeling from the prospect of having to pay a $10,000-a-year special assessment over the next 15 years to cover part of the development costs. Silverthorne said the couple received a letter in May from the developer, T.J. Ackermann of East End Development LLC, requesting their signatures on a petition asking the city of Cincinnati to approve the special assessment. The assessment, which city offi cials described as the largest assessment on a residential development in recent history, would apply to 38 of the 39 lots at Walworth. It would be used to cover the cost of such things as land acquisition, infrastructure improvements and environmental cleanup of the former brownfi eld site, just north of the inter-
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section of Riverside Drive and Delta Avenue. “We had been saving for years, and we knew what our budget was, so this was a real surprise and potentially a stopper,” Silverthorne said. “We thought about walking away from the whole project, but we had too much invested.” Silverthorne said she and her husband had already spent nearly $80,000 for the down payment on the land and items such as high-end appliances and fi xtures to stage the house for Homeareama before they found out about the assessment. She acknowledged the couple had agreed to pay an assessment and a modest homeowners’ association fee of See HOMEARAMA, Page 2A
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