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Cost estimates sink white-water park plan Agencies say $10 million too much to develop recreational area along the Great Miami River by downtown Dayton The proposed white-water park in the Great Miami River by downtown Dayton was scuttled Friday after construction cost estimates rose as high as $10 million. The feasibility study for the park, which would have been located at the low dam just north of the Monument Avenue bridge, estimated the costs for the in-river construction at between $4 million and $8 million. Another $2 million in facilities and landscaping would be needed along the river bank to make the park a viable public attraction, said Carrie Scarfe, director of development and special projects for Five Rivers MetroParks. The study, released Friday, said a white-water play area could be built at the site and would draw people from the Dayton region and beyond. But the park district and the Miami Conservancy District — the two agencies that paid a Colorado design firm $70,000 for the study — decided the cost was too steep. Read full article here: http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2006/10/21/ddn102106whitewater.html

Yeah, i'm not really sure what to think of it. There is already a site for businesses at www.oregondistrict.biz and a site for residents at www.oregondistrict.org, so i'm not really sure where oregondistrict.com fits it. It look kind of like the Oregon District's version of myspace, but the Oregon District really isn't that big, so I wonder how well it will work

Sweet: Esther Price to open fifth candy store Dayton Business Journal - October 13, 2006 by Tim Tresslar Esther Price Candies Corp. has plans to sweeten up Clayton. The Dayton-based maker and seller of chocolates and sweets has agreed to buy three-quarters of an acre and an accompanying farmhouse located in the Village of North Clayton, where it will locate a store. The Village is a 100-acre development at the northwest corner of National and Hoke roads. The proposed development will include retail and offices, homes and condominiums. Read More...

Tiny town closes book on plans for library Toledo Blade, 10/10/06 Mayor Doug Ruen didn't realize how much support this tiny Van Wert County village had gotten for a proposed library branch until he started returning the money. "We've written checks to California, Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky," Mr. Ruen said. "It's amazing to me." Amazing, but apparently not enough. Last month trustees for the Brumback Library in Van Wert notified officials in Venedocia, 95 miles southwest of Toledo, the library would not be able to staff and stock a new branch in their village of 160 as they'd promised in 2002. At that time, Brumback agreed to support the project if Venedocia could provide the building for the branch.

Construction continues for new Seneca East campus Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune, 10/18/06 Construction work is on track for the new Seneca East K-12 campus, Fanning/Howey Engineering project manager Curt South told the board of education Monday night. “From my perspective, everything is going well as scheduled,” South said. “We have a plan and we’re sticking to it.” He said interior work lies ahead once the basic structure is enclosed, with furnishings and site improvements to follow. The Ohio School Facilities Commission is to fund 68 percent toward construction of the new building, with taxpayers covering the balance through a 28-year bond package. The new campus on the school farm west of Attica should be ready sometime between the first and third quarters of 2008, according to information released earlier.

Bill - Excellent site! I commend you and your wife on your commitment to downtown Dayton and taking it a taking it a step further by creating a great website to promote the city. One only needs to read the comments posted on the Dayton Daily News website to see that a website like this is very much needed, as it seems that the negativity and problems are the only things to get attention (especially by suburbanites). It's good to see someone doing some educating and promoting for a change! Keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing what you all have in store for the site.

Former Boneyard owner evicted Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune, 10/10/06 Amidst the Boneyard — a salvage business loaded with antiquated vehicles and twisted scrap of every conceivable shape and size — Fostoria plans its new railroad tourism project. The locale also serves as the setting for an ongoing debate between the city and the Boneyard’s former owner, Richard Elder, whom city officials instructed to leave the property Monday morning after he failed to do so in the expanded time frame he was granted earlier this month. Fostoria purchased the 401 Columbus Avenue operation from Elder in June after an eminent domain trial to acquire it and transform the scrapyard into a train-viewing center for rail enthusiasts and tourists. Prior to the extension, Elder was given 100 days to clear the property. Mayor John Davoli was present at the Boneyard Monday and said the actions were necessary to revitalize the look of the city and to go forward with the plans for the area, which the city is working on in conjunction with the Fostoria Rail Preservation Society. “I’m not a big fan of eminent domain, but this hasn’t been a working business for years,” Davoli said. “And it’s an eyesore at this point.”

The GMAT is the admissions test that MBA/graduate business programs use.

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Having never been to Providence, I really don't know anything about the city, but it looks great in the the pics. Any particular reason why you're not a big fan of the city, ColDayMan? I'm just curious.

Thanks PigBoy...I had forgetten all about those maps. I still wonder why the city doesn't split up the Historic Inner East into different neighborhoods. St. Anne's Hill, Huffman, and others in the Historic Inner East already have their own neighborhood Associations and no one really refers to it as the Historic Inner East. Also, there are already neighborhoods that are smaller than Huffman, St. Anne's Hill, etc. I'm sure there's some reasoning behind it, but I just don't see it.

I really don't know what the official boundaries for the Huffman Historic District area. I have maps of all the official City of Dayton neighborhoods, but Huffman is actually a part of the Historic Inner East Neighborhood and apparently is not considered its own official neighborhood by the city.

This should answer your question, Inkaelin.

Wow, looks like a pretty interesting city. Nicely done.

Nice job, Jeff.

Very nice. Some great residential areas.

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The Wright Brothers lived in Dayton??? I had no clue.

Yeah, problems with credit reports are no fun. When I co-oped for Cincinnati Bell Wireless, I was issued a company phone--no change for local use, but changed for use out of the area. While I had the phone I had no problems, I paid the monthly bill for any roaming charges. When I left Cincinnati Bell, I turned my phone in to my boss like I was supposed to and paid my last bill and all was well, or so I thought. However, little did I know that my wonderful boss never deactivated the phone and simply handed it out to the next co-op (some time after I had left and after my mail forwarding had ended, as I had moved to Dayton). So apparently the next guy was using it and the bills for the roaming charges were being sent to me but I was never getting them. I had no reason to suspect anything until one day I got a call from a collections agency and they tried to collect on it. Obviously, I was like WTF. The collections agency said my time to contest the charges had past and really they had no interest in helping me, as they make money on what they collect. So I called Cincinnati Bell and was finally able to get the charges dropped. Once again, all is well, right? Nope. A year or two later I go to apply for my mortgage and there it is, still on my credit report. The mortgage officer said it wasn't a big deal and didn't really effect my credit score that much and even with it removed it wouldn't change my mortgage (except maybe they would approve me for more than the already-higher-than-I-could-even-afford-amount that already approved me for). He said that unless I was really patient and ready to be on the phone a lot, it would probably be best just to avoid any calls from the collections agency (they haven't called since, but if they do actually talk to you, it resets the amount of time they have to collect) and then wait however many years and just let it drop off my credit. I'm sure it's not the best financial advice, but I really don't want to deal with the collections agency and try to explain it to them. I certainly don't mean to discourage you, David, but I'm certainly glad it is not me! Hopefully it won't be a big deal and you'll easily be able to get it taken care of. And who knows, if you have a good experiece taking care of it, I might even be encouraged to do something about my situation. :-D

Apparently the railroads played a strong part in Jackson's early growth... http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Stories/JacksonEvolution.htm

Not being very knowledgeable about Cleveland (other than what I read here), I don't really have anything of substance to add. But I will say when I visited Cleveland I found something about the Ameritrust Tower very intriguing. Based on pictures I had seen, I thought it was fugly, but after I saw it in person I still didn't think it was pretty, but there was something about it that I liked. I just can't figure out what. Just my worthless outsider's opinion of the tower. :-) Carry on.

Were they able to preserve any of the tiles that they uncovered? I see the McAlpin's nameplate, but I thought I remembered there being some other tiles...then again, I could just be imagining this.

Nice pictures, ZachariahDaMan. As others have said, I got a Lima vibe from the picture. But certainly a nicer version of Lima. I have passed this along to my friend in Lima government as a possible similar sized city to look at and see if there are things that they could emulate from Jackson. You're exaggerating, C-Dawg.

The coffee places I usually go to (if not one of the student owned and operated places on campus) would be Boston Stoker (either downtown or Brown Street) or the Oregon Emporium or on Saturdays the place in the 2nd Street Market. They were redoing the Oregon Emporium and making it part of Pacchia/The Jazz Room or something like that--not really sure of the details, as I have not been there in awhile, but there is some news of it in one of the Dayton threads on here.

Nice pictures. Over Labor Day weekend last year, my partner and I stayed at a Bed and Breakfast in nearby Nashville. Although modern architecture isn't really my cup of tea, we ended up spending a day in Columbus and it was actually pretty impressive to see all the civic buildings and churchs. The bus tour offered by the CVB was also very well done.