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Extension rolls from Polaris to County Line Road
Slow-build led to Westerville native’s fight with Otterbein
By ANDREW KING THISWEEKNEWS.COM
After nearly two years in development, the extension of Worthington Road between Polaris Parkway and County Line Road is in its final stages of construction. Design and conception of the $6.3 million project took place in 2012 and 2013, and construction has been underway for most of 2014. Crews have cleared trees and demolished houses at the end of Taylor Way before beginning utility work. Now, work has begun on sanitary sewer systems and the roadway’s storm sewer, and work on the base for the new road will begin soon. A new major roadway slowly is emerging from the previously vacant f ield, although most of the work remains out of sight to passing motorists. “Once the underground utilities are in place, we’ll start with the roadway base,” construction manager Jake Preston said. “In the next month and a
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Aerial shot taken April 16 from the WBNS 10-TV News helicopter of the Worthington Road extension project, winding its way from Polaris Parkway (at top) to County Line Road (at bottom). JOSHUA A. BICKEL/THISWEEKNEWS
In February, she filed a lawsuit against the university over its campus police withAnna Schiffbauer has lived holding records from the news within Westerville her whole organization, despite repeated life. She graduated from West- requests. erville South in 2010 and According to case documoved around the block to ments, Schiffbauer argues the attend Otterbein University. Otterbein Police Department As a freshman, she began is an organization performing to work for Ottera governmental funcbein’s student newstion, as it exercises paper as its business police powers manager. She contingranted by governued to work for the ment, and therefore publication as it is subject to rules reworked itself into under the Ohio Pubthe news website lic Records Act, Otterbein360, where Anna Schiffbauer which requires pubshe is now the news lic offices to provide editor. records upon request. The suit Schiffbauer loves the small specifically seeks the departuniversity setting and its inti- ment’s arrest records and incimate atmosphere between stu- dent reports, which are prodents and faculty. She never vided by public police agenexpected that during her last cies in the state. semester of senior year she In 2011, the university’s would file a lawsuit against security employees became a her beloved university. police force with state-certi“If you would have told me fied officers and ceased to four years ago this is how release police reports. Despite things would play out, I would- the state-certified staff, Ottern’t believe you at all. It’s an bein University is a private unbelievable thing,” SchiffLAWSUIT >> A4 bauer said.
Superintendent conquers challenge of Boston Marathon By MARY POSANI THISWEEKNEWS.COM They say you cannot call yourself a distance runner until you run the Boston Marathon and NewYork City Marathon. Westerville School District Superintendent John Kellogg worked for that title Monday,
April 21 by running in his first Boston Marathon. A collegiate cross-country career journeyed with Kellogg post-college. He ran at the College ofWilliam & Mary and continued to run competitively after college. It wasn’t until recently he took an interest in marathons. “It wasn’t until 2010 that I
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Day, Boston celebrates the day with the annual marathon. The race attracts about 20,000 participants and more than 500,000 spectators. The course is well known for its hilly terrain in addition to the distance. At the end of the course is what runners call “Heartbreak Hill,” the final obstacle to the finish line.
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conquered the distance,” Kellogg said. In 2010, he ran his first marathon in Columbus. Last year he qualified to run in the Boston Marathon at the Columbus Marathon, with a finish time of 2:59:05, an John Kellogg
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Kellogg knew the course well. Before the race, he said he was nervous about Heartbreak Hill, “the two before that, and the 20 miles before that.” “My brother is a golfer and he said the course always wins,” he said. “I think the same thing
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