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District hits snooze alarm on later bells for students
Groups say more Z’s mean more A’s for students, but Olentangy says delayed start brings problems By THOMAS GALLICK THISWEEKNEWS.COM
Delaware County Engineer Chris Bauserman speaks during a dedication ceremony for the Sawmill Parkway extension Nov. 10. The road, which opened after the ceremony, now runs from the Franklin County line into the city of Delaware. LORRIE CECIL/THISWEEK
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Long-planned Sawmill Parkway extension opens; leaders say fields will give way to industry, jobs By THOMAS GALLICK THISWEEKNEWS.COM Delaware County officials began discussing a new route between the county’s southern border and the city of Delaware in the late 1980s. A generation later, the 4.5mile stretch of Sawmill Parkway between Hyatts Road in Liberty Township and the city of Delaware’s industrial park is open to traffic. Local officials July 23, 2015, posed with shovels in front of cornfields north of Hyatts Road during a groundbreaking ceremony. A $30.4 million construction project
followed, extending the road north and creating roundabouts at Sawmill Parkway's future intersections with BeanOller, Bunty Station, ClarkShaw and Ford roads. “The cornfields are basically gone and we have this beautiful road,” Delaware County Commissioner Gary Merrell said Nov. 10, when area leaders marked the parkway’s opening with a ceremony. The roadway ends just northwest of a new signalized intersection at U.S. Route 42 in Delaware. The extension, which follows a path from Liberty Township to
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Sawmill Parkway is seen from the back of a trolley that took local leaders on a tour of the new road Nov. 10. LORRIE CECIL/THISWEEK
Delaware Township and into the city, could see 25,000 travelers per day by 2030, according to an estimate from the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission. The new thoroughfare is expected to ease congestion on roads such as state Route 315 and U.S. Route 23 while
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The movement to secure more sleep for teens who attend Olentangy schools has suffered a setback. Olentangy school board members last week declined to endorse a plan to set later start times for high school students, citing possible negative academic and financial side effects for the district. Classes now start at 7:20 a.m. at the district’s high schools.
Tonya Harris, chairwoman of Olentangy’s Continuous Improvement Committee, on Nov. 10 presented three possible options for moving high school start times to 8 a.m. or later. Groups from the American Medical Association to the Centers for Disease Control suggest starting the school day at 8:30 a.m. or later to better align with changing sleep rhythms children experience as they go through puberty.
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opening up large swaths of land near the city of Delaware’s industrial park for development. While drivers on the roadway still may see grazing animals and farm fields for years to come, city of Delaware officials see it as
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Neighbors anxious about potential boost in traffic By THOMAS GALLICK THISWEEKNEWS.COM
As a development proposal for a new neighborhood at Powell’s northwestern city limits has grown, so have neighbors’ concerns about the potential for additional traffic problems in the area. Pulte Homes on Nov. 9 went before Powell’s Planning and Zoning Commission for an initial review of its plans to build
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183 units on about 109 acres on the east and west sides of Steitz Road south of Hunters Bend. The property sits in Liberty Township just west of the Golf Village neighborhood, but the developer plans to ask Powell City Council to annex the land into the city. Tom Hart, an attorney representing Pulte Homes, said the plan “has evolved a little
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