Recently added articles from Middletown Journal (Middletown, OH):
Drug tests loom for high school students.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Megan Gildow Oct. 2--TRENTON -- Random student drug testing at Edgewood High School could begin any day for the 409 students who have turned in signed consent forms. Administrators had set a Monday deadline for students who participate in "non-graded" ...
Butler County workers on strike.
Sep 25, 2007 ... Byline: Tim Tresslar Sep. 25--WEST CHESTER TWP. -- A West Chester Twp. site is among the locations where United Auto Workers are striking, a General Motors spokesman said Monday. The General Motors service and parts operations at 8752 Jacquemin Drive in West Chester ...
Monroe council to vote on GM tax deal.
Sep 24, 2007 ... Byline: Denise Wilson Sep. 24--MONROE -- The Monroe city manager will recommend Tuesday that city council approves a tax abatement for a proposed $102.3 million General Motors Corp. parts distribution center. The resolution would authorize City Manager ...
Middletown to brand itself.
Sep 21, 2007 ... Byline: Ed Richter Sep. 21--MIDDLETOWN -- Although most residents know the area around the Atrium Medical Center and the Interstate 75 and Ohio 122 interchange as the East End and Renaissance area, developers and city officials will be working with a Cincinnati-based consultant ...
Company exploring four local sites for pipeline station.
Sep 20, 2007 ... Byline: Denise Wilson Sep. 20--MONROE -- The company proposing to build a $30 million natural-gas pipeline station has four local sites in mind, including locations in Monroe and Middletown. A request to rezone about 24 acres north of Todd Hunter Road from ...
City manager asks for fire run stats.
Sep 20, 2007 ... Byline: Meagan Engle Sep. 20--FRANKLIN -- City Manager James Lukas is seeking fire captains' input on ways to arrive sooner to fires. Response time and delays are cited by Lukas in a report as reasons Fire Chief Jonathan Westendorf was frustrated and grabbed part-time ...
Fire chief suspended; union wants him out.
Sep 20, 2007 ... Byline: Meagan Engle Sep. 20--FRANKLIN -- The city and firefighters' union are at odds over disciplinary action the fire chief received for allegedly grabbing a firefighter. Chief Jonathan Westendorf will serve a two-day unpaid suspension; must apologize to part-time ...
Ohio EPA finds small amount of mercury on Head Start teachers' shoes.
Sep 20, 2007 ... Byline: Daniel Wells Sep. 20--MIDDLETOWN -- Officials are investigating a mercury spill that went unreported for four days before forcing the evacuation Tuesday of Middletown's Head Start classrooms. More than 100 students had to have their clothing tested for the ...
Payday lending traps 300,000 Ohioans in debt cycle.
Sep 20, 2007 ... Byline: Tim Tresslar Sep. 20--MIDDLETOWN -- More than 300,000 Ohioans are caught in a cycle of debt to payday lenders, with the average borrower taking out nearly 13 such loans per year, according to a report released Wednesday. The average payday loan is $328 with an ...
Mercury spill cancels Head Start class.
Sep 19, 2007 ... Byline: Daniel Wells Sep. 19--MIDDLETOWN -- A mercury spill prompted the evacuation Tuesday of Middletown's Head Start classrooms on Central Avenue. An employee at a dental office, which shares a building with Head Start at 2402 Central Ave., reported the spill at ...
Middletown site may be best of four.
Sep 19, 2007 ... Byline: Denise Wilson Sep. 19--MONROE -- The Middletown site may be the best of four to build Rockies Express Pipeline's proposed $30 million natural gas pipeline compressor station. The company on Tuesday requested to delay consideration by the Monroe Planning ...
U.S. senator asks for new post office, to unify city under one ZIP code.
Sep 19, 2007 ... Byline: Ed Richter Sep. 19--MIDDLETOWN -- The wheels of the federal government's bureaucracy tend to move slowly, but sometimes a little muscle from a state's junior senator can help. Sen. Sherrod Brown sent a letter last week to Postmaster General John E. Potter ...
New pharmacy opens ahead of hospital.
Sep 17, 2007 ... Byline: Danielle Wilson Sep. 17--MIDDLETOWN -- With Atrium Medical Center slated to open in December, an area pharmacist decided to open a new drug store nearby. "I think Middletown is a city that has good growing potential," especially in the drug store industry, ...
Port authority considers bonds to pay for YMCA development.
Sep 17, 2007 ... Byline: Tim Tresslar Sep. 17--MIDDLETOWN -- The Butler County Port Authority's board will weigh Tuesday whether to issue bonds to pay for Middletown's newest YMCA. Under a proposed agreement, the port authority would finance approximately $20 million to build a YMCA ...
Manufacturing plant to move to Fairfield, Ohio.
Sep 11, 2007 ... Byline: Eric Schwartzberg Sep. 11--FAIRFIELD -- A Michigan-based industrial products manufacturer is relocating its Blue Ash operations to Fairfield and plans to make the new location its primary manufacturing and distribution center. Brown-Campbell Company plans to ...
AK settles into new HQ.
Aug 30, 2007 ... Aug. 30--WEST CHESTER TWP. -- AK Steel Corp. has finished moving 300 employees to a new corporate headquarters in West Chester Twp., the company said Wednesday. The company began its move from Middletown to its new offices in at Centre Pointe Office Park earlier this month. The ...
Middletown, Ohio-area businesses have mixed reports on impact of smoking ban.
Aug 29, 2007 ... Byline: Danielle Wilson Aug. 29--MIDDLETOWN -- It's been eight months since a law went into effect banning smoking in most Ohio public indoor places. Some businesses say the ban has beefed up business, while others say it hurts. At Jay's Lakeside Inn on Tytus Avenue, ...
Reports of Ohio smoking-ban violations numerous in Butler, Warren Counties.
Aug 29, 2007 ... Byline: Ed Richter Aug. 29--MIDDLETOWN -- There have been nearly 1,300 reports of violations of Ohio's new ban on smoking in public places in Butler and Warren counties since voters approved the new law last November. Prior to May 3, the 675 reports of alleged ...
Middletown Journal, Ohio, business briefs column.(Column)
Aug 28, 2007 ... Aug. 28--MRH ADDS PHYSICIANS -- Middletown Regional Hospital has added six physicians specializing in infectious diseases and internal medicine to its staff. They are: Kaili Fan. She earned her medical degree from West China University of Medical Science and completed a ...
Middletown Journal, Ohio, business profile column.(Column)
Aug 22, 2007 ... Aug. 22--NAME: Robert Wolfe. BUSINESS: Titan Investigations Inc. in Fairfield. JOB TITLE: Private Investigator. NUMBER OF YEARS IN THAT POSITION: 16. EDUCATION: "16 years of on-the-job experience." WHAT DOES YOUR BUSINESS OFFER? "A ...