- Roger Gordon. Hiram Village Council has rezoned two properties in the village to allow for college properties to be sold and transitioned out of the institutional district.
- Wendy DiAlesandro. Hoping to generate a mutually beneficial revenue source, Garrettsville is shopping the idea of a Joint Economic Development District to its neighboring townships.
- Roger Gordon. “We’re working with our code. We went to Regional Planning, and they had some changes and suggestions, so we’re still doing that back and forth,” township Vice Chair Rich Gano said.
- Roger Gordon. Brad Ehrhart, president of the Portage Development Board, spoke recently to Garrettsville Village Council about the village’s interest in perhaps at some point becoming part of a Joint Economic Development District (JEDD) with other communities.
- Roger Gordon. Village council has authorized Mayor Anne Haynam to offer a management contract to the Village of Mantua that would allow the Hiram Police Department to manage the Mantua Village Police Department on a temporary basis.
- Roger Gordon.
The Mantua Village Council will hold an open meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21 and welcome your comments on the DORA proposal. The Mantua-Shalersville Area Chamber of Commerce has requested that the downtown area be designated as a “Designated Outdoor Recreational Area,” which would exempt that area from open-container laws.
- Roger Gordon.
The Mantua-Shalersville Area Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon-cutting celebration at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26 for the completed Facade on Main Street in Mantua.
- Roger Gordon.
The Scotch Doubles Benefit for Michael Schustrich will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6 at SkyLane Bowling at 8311 Windham St. Michael (Mikey) was tragically killed at work, leaving behind his wife and newborn son.
- Roger Gordon.
A fundraising dinner for the Mantua Restoration Society will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8 in the Mantua Center School gymnasium at 11741 Mantua Center Rd. in Mantua Township.
- Roger Gordon.
The 13th Annual G-Men Football 4-Person Golf Scramble Fundraiser will be Friday, July 25 at Sugar Bush Golf Course at 11186 state Route 88 in Garrettsville.
- Violet Puin.
Road Supervisor Tony VanSteenberg reported that a fallen tree had also knocked down a telephone pole. The road crew patched holes in the park driveway over the past month.
The Village of Hiram Council formed a task force a while back for the revitalization of the downtown. That group continues to meet. Two Hiram College student groups — a total of five students doing a senior capstone project and also a semester project — will be contributing to the venture by collaborating with the task force.
The second annual members-only “progressive dinner” for the Mantua-Shalersville Area Chamber of Commerce will be at 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20.
Windham Township was successful in getting a grant obtained by the Portage County Land Bank to have the structure at 9092 state Route 303 razed and the property cleaned up.
Back roads, country roads and highways all pose a risk for crashes, especially for farm vehicles unable to reach the same high speed as a car. A recent accident in Freedom Township made this lesson tragically clear.
Hiram council is overhauling the village’s zoning code, and a public hearing about it will be held Tuesday, Nov. 7 at Village Hall at 7108 Wakefield Rd. The key aspects that will be discussed are parts of Phase 1, including adding a mixed-use zoning code to the books and village council’s proposal of changing from a college research district to an institutional district.
A public hearing will be held regarding implementation discussions of the pay-to-park that was passed last October at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25 at Village Hall, located at 11617 Garfield Rd. It is being implemented to cover the rising costs of having police, fire and EMS.
Earlier this year, Mantua Village Council realized that it had a fairly sizable bank account and thought it would be good to do a better job investing that money so it could at least be earning ample interest instead of just sitting in the bank with a very low interest rate.