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City council to vote on assessment contracts for former Rable building AL LAWRENCE • News Journal correspondent • February 1, 2011 MANSFIELD -- City council will vote tonight on legislation authorizing the service-safety director to seek proposals and enter into contracts for an environmental assessment and asbestos survey on the former Rable Manufacturing building, 137 Touby Court. The work is the first step toward the possible sale of the property, which has been vacant since the company moved operations to the airport area about two years ago. City Engineer Jim DeSanto told council's Economic Development Committee on Monday that the entire cost for the assessment will be covered by a $233,000 Clean Ohio grant. "We're providing assistance (to Rable) and acting as the grant administrator," he said. "What this will do is provide a document that will tell what's there, and then they'll have to put in an additional application for any cleanup." Read More...

If you're combining Bounce and Union in Cleveland, you might as well combine Union and Axis in Columbus.

^I don't think that they serve any alcoholic beverages, but I could be wrong. Oh well.

^I am glad that he is no longer my representative (I moved out of his district). Every time I sent him an e-mail or a letter he would reply with some of the most condescending and ill-informed replies. He never gave a full answer to any of my questions and always gave false information to back up his stance on the issues.

ProkNo5, why did you include Angel Falls on your Akron list? I mean, it is a pretty gay friendly establishment, but I don't see it as exclusively gay.

North central Ohio home sales climb 8.2 percent BRYAN BULLOCK • NEWS JOURNAL • JANUARY 30, 2011 MANSFIELD -- North central Ohio home sales rose in 2010 -- posting one of the biggest gains of any market in the state. There were 1,367 homes sold last year in the Mansfield area, according to data recently released by the Ohio Association of Realtors for Richland County and parts of Crawford County. Home sales climbed 8.2 percent from 2009, the second largest year-to-year increase in any Ohio housing market. "This is good news for Mansfield," said Edison Dorsey, president of Mansfield Board of Realtors. "The market is slowly moving in the right direction, even if it's not moving as fast as people would like it to." Read More... 'Green' jobs already have home in Mansfield BRYAN BULLOCK • NEWS JOURNAL • JANUARY 30, 2011 Energy Technologies Focuses On High-Tech Equipment Including Temporary Shelter System, Energy Converter MANSFIELD -- Energy Technologies specializes in making high-tech equipment for the military and these days, the Mansfield-based company is focusing on reinventing an age-old concept: Temporary shelter. Its Tactical Shelter Systems are anything but primitive. The rugged, lightweight shelters are outfitted with thin solar panels and flanked by small wind turbines. They use a sophisticated combination of alternative and traditional energy sources to create a workstation that can be rapidly setup, torn down and used in even the most remote, uninhabitable places. Afghanistan and Iraq are two places the military is using them. Read More...

Crestline opts to disband its 3C rail committee BY HENRY S. CONTE • News Journal • January 25, 2011 CRESTLINE -- There will be other opportunities for Crestline to grow, but city council President David Crokie believes a golden opportunity just passed. Monday night, Crokie officially disbanded the "3C Rail" committee. The committee conceived a plan to make Crestline a stop in a proposed railway from Cleveland to Columbus to Cincinnati. "In light of what the new governor (John Kasich) thought of the project, and he had no interest, we had no choice but to scrap it," Crokie said. "We had been in contact with Conrail and (the Ohio Department of Transportation) and had attended several meetings and we had come up with extensive plans. Read More...

Agreed. I need to visit Detroit sometime, I just need to find someone who will be willing to go with me.

Gorman-Rupp expects good year BY BRYAN BULLOCK • NEWS JOURNAL • JANUARY 16, 2011 MANSFIELD -- The Gorman-Rupp Company was founded in a humble Mansfield barn during the Great Depression. It not only weathered the worst recession in American history, but came out firing on all cylinders. Today, 77 years later, company officials say Gorman-Rupp has licked another economic downturn and sees brighter days on the horizon. "We're very bullish for 2010," said Jeffrey S. Gorman, president and chief executive. "And we expect to have a better year next year, and the year after." Read More...

Recycling business expansion gets land boost from Mansfield BY LOU WHITMIRE • NEWS JOURNAL • JANUARY 10, 2011 MANSFIELD -- A local business, B&R Recycling LLC, has signed a lease with Mansfield for $1 a year on a 26-acre city-owned parcel at 177 E. Longview Ave. The plan is to open a recycling facility for contractors and the public. Business partners Rick Weemhoff and Ben Flynn said B&R Recycling soon will accept concrete, dirt and asphalt from demolitions and from driveway and road tearouts. The company will crush the material for resale for applications ranging from driveways and basements to agricultural uses. Read More...

Wow! Thanks for sharing, the zoo looks really nice and I so does the art museum and those houses are amazing.

I don't know if I would really call them "celebrities," but I am quite fond of Ben Cohen (great smile and an amazing body), Daniel Robinson (great voice and a great body), and Sufjan Stevens (omg, those eyes). More towards the celebrity side, Matthew Morrison and Ryan Phillippe are also nice to look at.

Shiloh Industries leaving Mansfield BY LOU WHITMIRE • NEWS JOURNAL • DECEMBER 24, 2010 MANSFIELD -- Shiloh Industries, Mansfield Manufacturing Division, has notified the United Steelworkers of America International office of its intent to close its Mansfield facility on Ninth Avenue, according to a press release from the company. No date has been given for the closing. There are approximately 85 Steelworkers working three shifts to finish production so the presses can be moved to a new facility in Bowling Green, Ky., and to other plants it owns in Ohio, according to Gary Hall, human resources director. "This comes after USW 7679 rejected $3.50 per hour wage cuts as well as benefit reductions and contract changes in October 2009 after already accepting a contract freeze previously," Hall stated. Read More...

Sadly, I have also seen that poor excuse for a movie. Not only is the casting and acting horrible, but the music doesn't even match what is going on in the film, not that you can really tell what is going on because the writing is almost as bad as the acting. Kevin Costner has ruined so many movies with his horrible acting (like this The Untouchables as well as Thirteen Days) and I don't understand how he ever made it in Hollywood/acting in general. I don't find Bill Murray to be that great of an actor, which is why I avoid most of his movies (or rather, movies that he is in).

Agreed, they make me so excited for Cleveland. :)

Well, the first way you described it made it seem creepy; "he followed her" without an explanation as why is what I found a little off. When you said that, it seemed like you meant he saw her one day, became obsessed and then followed her wherever she went until he could finally subdue her into submission.

That is just a little creepy. :|

Friday could decide if Calisolar will bring 1300 jobs to Ontario BY LOU WHITMIRE • NEWS JOURNAL • DECEMBER 15, 2010 ONTARIO -- Local officials are gaining confidence and excitement at the possibility a California company may soon call Ontario home. Calisolar Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif., alternative energy company, is considering taking over the former General Motors facility -- and possibly bringing 1,300 jobs to north central Ohio in the next four years. Ontario Councilman Mark Weidemyre called the news "a potential rebirth" of the West Fourth Street GM plant. Read More...

Man Officially Cured of HIV For the first time, a man has been declared officially cured of HIV. The remedy may nearly have killed him, but it opens a door—just a crack—to hope that we may someday kill off the scourge for good. Strangely enough, the diagnosis that most concerned Timothy Ray Brown in 2007 was acute myeloid leukemia. HIV has been increasingly thought of as a manageable disease, though certainly a terribly burdensome one. What brought the 42-year old Brown under the care of Germany's Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin hospital was the more immediate threat his cancer posed. The treatment Brown underwent was aggressive: chemotherapy that destroyed the majority of his immune cells. Total body irradiation. Finally, a risky stem-cell transplant that nearly a third of patients don't survive—but that appears to have completely cured Brown of HIV. Read More...

^That is horrible and so sickening.

"Daddy" and "Bear" do not belong in the same sentence with me! That's right, he's a "Sugar Daddy." ;) Haha, now that you mention it, it sure does. No, I think she is quite attractive.

I did not pick up on this on my trip down to Cincinnati this summer, I actually thought the opposite. The people that I interacted with downtown and up by UC were friendly and helpful. HHS78 - I think I know that feeling that you are talking about, the feeling that you belong here (in Cleveland) and that you are apart of the city, so I would say go for it. If things work out, then great. If they don't, then you can always move back or to some other place.

Columbusite - Do you have something against Lady Gaga? I mean, I like her and I am gay, but I don't like her because I am gay. Also, I know gay men who are WAY more effeminate than me who do not like her at all. Not to mention, you are still lumping all the "SN gays" into one category even though I am sure you could not possibly know every "SN gay." Lastly, there a a number of different types of gay bars (at least in Cleveland, I don't know about Columbus), but I don't think you would want to go to some of those bars (like a leather bar :laugh:). Then again you would probably fit in at others (gay sports bars, there is/was one in Cleveland but I can't remember its name).

Kasich + the rail bashers in Ohio. Agreed!

^Haha, oops, I fixed it. Thanks!