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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012
PLENTIFUL POTATOES In spite of the heat, potatoes are one crop that has grown really well. Full story, B3
BECAUSE COMMUNITY MATTERS
Newtown receives museum drawings
State officials have been supportive of the layout By Rob Dowdy rdowdy@communitypress.com
Both the Little Miami Scenic Bike Trail and the Ohio River Trail will be extended in the coming year. The two projects will add another four miles of trails to the area. FILE PHOTO
TRAIL CONNECTIONS ARE PROGRESSING
Separate pieces are now starting to join together
Construction continues on a new segment of the Ohio River Trail along Kellogg Avenue, which will connect Lunken Airport to the Magrish Nature Preserve area on Salem Road. It's one of many trails planned for the area. LISA
By Lisa Wakeland lwakeland@communitypress.com
Piece by piece, bike trails around Cincinnati are starting to connect. About four miles of paved hike and bike paths are either under construction or in the final planning stages. The city of Cincinnati is currently working on a segment of the Ohio River Trail that will connect Lunken Airport in the East End to the Magrish Nature Preserve, off Salem Road in Mt. Washington. That piece is expected to be complete later this fall and will cost around $1.1 million, said Michael Moore, director of the city of Cincinnati’s Transportation and Engineering Department. Moore said the city should also know this fall whether they received a grant from the Ohio Kentucky Indiana Regional Council of Governments to fund improvements along Kellogg Avenue. That project, estimated to cost about $4 million, would include roadway upgrades as well as bike connections, he said. “Kellogg Avenue (winds around) and the width varies greatly, so we’d clean
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Another planned section would extend the trail along state Route 32 from Clough Pike to the parking lot right before the Beechmont Levee. that up, make it safer through the area and add in the bike trails so we’ve got the connection to the east,” Moore said. That trail segment would connect to the 1.3-mile segment Anderson Township built in 2010, which connects Sutton
SUCCESS
SAFETY
This summer, Anderson Township opened a 10-space lot to concertgoers, and the plan has been a success. Full story, A2
Mt. Washington will address safety issues and problem properties at its upcoming meeting. Full story, A3
and Five Mile roads. Farther north, the Hamilton County Park District is gearing up to extend the Little Miami Scenic Bike Trail from its current end in Newtown. Next spring, construction will begin on a three-mile segment that would continue the trail from the Little Miami Golf Center on Newtown Road to the intersection of Clough Pike and state Route 32, said Kevin Brill, an engineer for the Hamilton County Park District. It will go through Newtown’s Short Park as well as Clear Creek Park in Anderson Township, he said. Another planned section would exSee TRAILS, Page A2
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NEWTOWN — When building a museum, there aren’t many better places to get assistance than the Cincinnati Museum Center. That’s exactly what Newtown Village Council did when it contracted with the museum center to help design its Native American Artifacts Museum being constructed in the village’s former fire station, 3537 Church St. Representatives from the museum center recently presented council with several initial drawings of how the museum could look. Mayor Curt Cosby said the work done by the museum center is going to go a long way toward impressing the Ohio Facilities Commission, which must approve the work beTiettmeyer ing done by Newtown before releasing the $300,000 grant the village received. “It’s looking like that’s going to be well-received by the people in Columbus,” Cosby said, alluding to the village’s meeting with the Ohio Facilities Commission in December. Councilman Curt Tiettmeyer said the village has shared some of the preliminary work with the commission in preparation for the upcoming meeting. He said state officials have been supportive of the layout and work put into the museum so far. Tiettmeyer said as the project begins to take shape the village must continue to move forward with design work and due dillegence as preparation for creating the museum and moving the administration offices across the street. “There’s still a lot of hard work to take place,” Tiettmeyer said. The village hired Roth Partnership for the design work on the entire building, while the museum center will help to organize and properly lay out the Native American artifacts currently resting in the administration building's basement. The project is estimated to cost approximately $900,000. Newtown is using a $300,000 Native American Artifacts grant from the Ohio Facilities Commission to create the museum.
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