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  • Dems: We’ll talk about primaries when fair maps are passed

    Dems: We’ll talk about primaries when fair maps are passed

    State Sen. Vernon Sykes, D-Akron, speaks with press alongside House Minority Leader Allison Russo on Friday. The Dem caucuses pushed their maps and pushed for cooperation in the ongoing redistricting process. (Photo: Susan Tebben, OCJ)

    BY: SUSAN TEBBEN –  Ohio Capital Journal

    After making technical fixes brought up by GOP members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission, Ohio’s Democratic caucuses in the legislature are again pushing for their maps to be a model for redistricting in the state.

    Legislative leaders of the party also still believe a May primary is possible, but until maps are produced with bipartisan agreement, they say they can’t come to the table to talk about other election options.

    House Minority Leader Allison Russo, state Sen. Vernon Sykes, and Democratic redistricting mapmaker Chris Glassburn met at a press conference on Friday to bring up their versions of legislative maps, but also to give Republicans an ultimatum on the process.

    “It is not a lack of ability that is delaying the process, rather Republicans lack the will to do what is constitutionally required to deliver the fair maps that Ohioans overwhelmingly demanded not once, but twice,” Russo said.

    As of Monday evening, spokespeople for Senate President Matt Huffman, Secretary of State Frank LaRose, Auditor Keith Faber and Governor Mike DeWine said they had no information about when the commission would be meeting.

    “Check with the co-chairs,” said Huffman’s spokesperson when asked if Huffman had heard about the commission or provided his own schedule to the commission.

    “Secretary LaRose is ready and willing to meet at the call of the co-chairs,” LaRose’s spokesman told the OCJ. “He is focused on explaining to the General Assembly the risks associated with trying to run a secure, accurate and accessible election on the current timeline without the finality of new districts.”

    A spokesperson for House Speaker and commission co-chair Bob Cupp did not respond to requests for comment on Monday.

    The maps presented on Friday were the same that were released on Tuesday, which Glassburn said didn’t hold major substantive changes. Mostly the maps contained corrections to precinct lines or single census blocks, some of which were requested by Senate President Matt Huffman asked for in the most recent meetings of the Ohio Redistricting Commission.

    Sykes, D-Akron, is the co-chair of the Ohio Redistricting Commission with House Speaker Bob Cupp, R-Lima. The two previous times the ORC met on legislative redistricting, Sykes and the Democrats expressed their frustration with a lack of transparency and a lack of concessions they say the Republicans were willing to provide as the map-making process went on.

    The two legislative redistricting plans that came from the ORC were passed on purely Republican majorities, and each time, Sykes left the process feeling as though Democrats weren’t heard and the GOP was unmovable.

    Still, Sykes said he is “hopeful” about the newest process, now with a court-ordered deadline of February 17. He said staff members have been “exchanging some information.”

    But despite only days until the deadline, Sykes acknowledged getting the commission together is still an uncertainty.

    “Right now, the reason we’re not meeting is because (the Republican commission members) can’t get organized on a date and time and place to do that, so we have not received any indications of what they plan on doing,” Sykes said.

    Gov. Mike DeWine, who convenes the Ohio Redistricting Commission and serves as a member, went to Los Angeles this past weekend to watch the Cincinnati Bengals compete in the Super Bowl.

    He held a media availability in LA on Thursday, “to talk about Super Bowl LVI, all things Cincinnati Bengals, and all things Ohio ahead of the big game on Sunday,” according to his office.

    A spokesperson for fellow ORC member and Senate President Matt Huffman, R-Lima, wasted no time in releasing a statement on behalf of the majority party regarding the Dem maps and criticism of the process.

    “I’m sure at this point, Democrats believe they could draw House and Senate maps in crayon and watercolor and the same four members of the court would approve their unconstitutional maps,” Senate majority director of communications John Fortney wrote in a statement.

    The only specific criticism Fortney gave of the Dem plan was the 1st Senate district, saying the new plan “shoved it into districts that will not have another Senate election until 2024.”

    One thing Dems said they’d be willing to wait on is deciding whether or not a May primary is possible. Russo still believe a primary can be held on May 3 as scheduled “if we take the necessary steps to promptly pass fair, constitutional maps.”

    Republicans, including Huffman, brought up the idea of holding two primaries to take the pressure off the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office and local boards of election should the redistricting process take them past filing deadlines and administrative timelines for the election.

    In court filings with the Ohio Supreme Court asking them to uphold the previous maps, GOP members of the ORC asked the court to allow them to use the unconstitutional maps for the primary or wait to file a decision until after the 2022 general election.

    The Ohio Supreme Court did not move the primary, but reiterated in their rejection of the revised legislative maps that the General Assembly “has the authority to ease the pressure that the commission’s failure to adopt a constitutional redistricting plan has placed on the secretary of state and on county boards of elections by moving the primary election, should that action become necessary.”

    The secretary of state’s office, which both Republicans and Democrats say they’ve met with, has expressed hesitancy to postpone the May 3 election, or to have two separate primaries.

    The nearest deadline for the election is March 19, when the Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act says absentee ballots for eligible Ohioans should be sent out. April 5 starts the early voting period for the state under the current election timeline.

    Rob Nichols, spokesperson for Secretary of State Frank LaRose, said discussions on the election are “important, complex and ongoing.”

    “We continue to engage in negotiations over redistricting with those involved,” Nichols told the OCJ.

    The press conference ended a week that started with multiple committee meetings in the House and Senate to discuss congressional redistricting, all of which were canceled as House Speaker Bob Cupp said the GA didn’t have the support needed to pass new maps, as ordered by the Ohio Supreme Court. With the deadline for legislative approval set for Feb. 13, Cupp said the process will now move to the ORC. They will have another 30 days to come up with new maps.

  • Strategic Vision Process continues on February 23 for Loveland Schools

    Strategic Vision Process continues on February 23 for Loveland Schools

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    2022 will be a pivotal year for Loveland City Schools. We are launching a strategic vision process to determine the future of the district, and we want you to be involved. I want to hear from all of our stakeholders in regards to the priorities they have for the education of our most valuable asset: Our kids!

    The strategic vision process will gather input from across our Loveland City Schools community of parents, students, staff members, and anyone who lives within our district boundaries. We will be working to hear as many voices as possible and come up with a set of future goals for Loveland City Schools. When we have a shared vision of what it means for our students to be successful, we can work together to help our students achieve those goals. 

    A series of community meetings will be announced soon, and if you can’t attend a meeting, we will be using other tools to give you a chance to make your thoughts known. The work that went into building our Portrait of a Tiger will be used as a starting point for this discussion, and we will grow our vision from there. I encourage you to get involved and help us in this important mission.

    A Community Input Sessions was held on Wednesday, February 9, at Loveland High School during our Showcase Night. A second Community Input Session will be held on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at 6:00 pm at Loveland Middle School. 

    Our Portrait of a Tiger was created with community input during a series of meetings in 2019. This is our vision for what our students will get from a Loveland City School education beyond academic excellence. This will form the basis of our strategic vision. 

    Return to this PAGE in the coming weeks to see the latest as we begin this journey together. 

  • Redistricting changes shifted state school board districts before being struck down

    Redistricting changes shifted state school board districts before being struck down

    Melissa Cropper, executive director of the Ohio Federation of Teachers said the decisions DeWine made appear to be pushing out members and candidates who supporters of public education and topics like diversity and inclusion. The lines as established under the unconstitutional maps would impact candidates focused on topics important to the OFT, like diversity and inclusion in education.

    BY: SUSAN TEBBEN – Ohio Capital Journal

    Amid the chaos and uncertainty of the redistricting process, a deadline loomed that would decide representation on the Ohio State Board of Education. It depended on having district lines to reference.

    Legislative and congressional maps are both in limbo after the Ohio Supreme Court rejected both maps, the legislative maps getting sent back for a second time last week.

    Gov. Mike DeWine was forced to assign the Ohio State Board of Education districts himself because the deadline for establishing districts for the board was January 31. Using the state senate map adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission on Jan. 22, DeWine signed the letter notifying board members of their districts on the day of the deadline.

    Ohio Revised Code states the board of education districts must be established by Jan. 31 in a redistricting year, and if the General Assembly doesn’t create those districts themselves, the governor must take on the job.

    Each board district has to makeup three contiguous state senate districts.

    “Each state board of education district shall be as compact as practicable,” the state law reads.

     The Ohio State Board of Education districts as they have been prior to redistricting efforts this year.
    Source: Ohio Department of Education

    Many of those districts didn’t change, but the most significant changes seemed to be in four particular districts; the districts represented by Dr. Christina Collins, Dr. Antoinette Miranda, Michelle Newman and Meryl Johnson.

    Collins’ new district would have stretched from Union County through Holmes County, and includes parts of Franklin County in between.

    Being a resident of Medina County, this plan would push her out of her district, and though the board of education races are considered non-partisan, Collins said it put her in a district that voted “overwhelmingly for significantly right-leaning state board candidates,” namely District 1 board member Diana Fessler and two candidates who unsuccessfully ran against Miranda and Newman.

    “The distance presents its own challenges given I do try to be involved in the counties I represent, but I also question my philosophical appeal as a representative to what appear to be this territory’s political preferences,” Collins wrote in an email to the OCJ.

    Newman’s three senate districts would have included her Newark residence in the 31st District, along with the 33rd district that brings her representation all the way to the Pennsylvania border. She would also represent the rural 30th district, that rolls from Jefferson County down the state line to Meigs County.

    Newman said she’s going to continue to serve kids and support public schools whatever her district lines.

    “However, when I saw my new district jump from 13 to 18 counties, lost the compactness of its previous state and also shifted to nearly all rural vs the urban/rural mix I had before, my eyebrows definitely raised,” Newman told the OCJ. “The fact that the Ohio Supreme Court just ruled the new maps unconstitutional proves my wariness was correct.”

    Miranda’s districts were set to go from the Columbus area near Ohio State University to Nelsonville near Ohio University.

     State Senate districts in Northeast Ohio, as shown on the most recently struck down legislative map. State board of education member Meryl Johnson would have represented districts 22, 23 and 24 under this plan, districts separated by another board member’s area in Senate district 27.
    Source: Dave’s Redistricting App

    Johnson’s 11th district would be broken by a peninsula of the 27th Senate district, covered by board member Tim Miller. That break separates the 22nd Senate district, which includes Ashland, Wayne and Medina counties, from the 23rd and 24th, which include pieces of Cleveland proper and Cuyahoga County.

    Only 11 members of the state board are elected, with the other eight appointed by the governor.

    Education officials don’t see the changes as coincidental. They see a connection between the changes made to the districts, and the four board members choices on the board, most importantly, their decision to support (and refuse to rescind) a resolution that condemned racism in state schools.

    “The governor certainly signaled an intent in terms of who they seem to be trying to protect on the board and who they seem to be drawing into competitive districts,” said Scott DiMauro, president of the Ohio Education Association.

    A spokesperson for DeWine corroborated state law that said it was his job to assign districts if the legislature fails to do so, but did not answer questions as to how DeWine decided on the district lines or whether he contacted incumbent members about the changes before making them official.

    Some incumbent members of the legislature were told as the map-drawing process went along what changes would be made to their districts, and were asked for input before the maps were officially presented to the public.

    DiMauro said the state board of education is an important entity to watch because of the power they hold over curriculum decisions, licensure law enforcement and even the hiring/firing process for teachers.

    The message the state board sends in Ohio is important, and curriculum messages some board members have made regarding education on race in schools have a “destructive” effect, according to DiMauro.

    “There’s a sense that you want a state board that is above politics,” DiMauro said.

    Melissa Cropper, executive director of the Ohio Federation of Teachers said the decisions DeWine made appear to be pushing out members and candidates who supporters of public education and topics like diversity and inclusion. The lines as established under the unconstitutional maps would impact candidates focused on topics important to the OFT, like diversity and inclusion in education.

    “I think ideally we wouldn’t even be talking about what the school board lines are until we have fair districts drawn,” Cropper said.

    With the senate maps among the three maps struck down by the Ohio Supreme Court, the education districts are at the mercy of the new redistricting plan, which the court has asked for by Feb. 17.

  • Donations are down at our food pantry – Please help now

    Donations are down at our food pantry – Please help now

    Donations are going down at our L.I.F.E. Food Pantry at this time of year – please help support those in our community that need assistance through the rough patches.

    • Beef Stew

    • Canned Chili

    • Instant Hot Cocoa

    • Cooking oil

    • Ensure/boost

    • Jello/pudding boxes

    • Pasta

    • Refried beans

    • Rice-a-Roni (rice side dishes)

    • Sugar White

    • Canned tomatoes

    • Spaghetti Sauce

    • Pineapple

    • Coffee

    • Apple Juice

    • Cereal

    • Laundry Detergent

    FOOD PANTRY HOURS 
    SUNDAY: Closed
    MONDAY: Closed
    TUESDAY: 10 AM – Noon & 4 PM – 6:30 PM
    WEDNESDAY: 10 AM – Noon
    THURSDAY 10 AM –Noon & 4 PM – 6:30 PM
    FRIDAY: 10 AM – Noon
    SATURDAY: 10 AM – Noon

    541 Loveland-Madeira Road, Loveland, Ohio 45140
    (513) 583-8222

    WEB SITE

  • Ramsey Paxton Cemetery improvements still ongoing and wrapping it up in 2022 with a dedication date May 7, 2022

    Ramsey Paxton Cemetery improvements still ongoing and wrapping it up in 2022 with a dedication date May 7, 2022

    by Rob Geiger

    In the last year, it has been a challenging time with serious health diagnoses, treatment, and the looming concerns regarding Covid. Plans were slowed down but our pioneer blood kept forging ahead keeping progress moving ahead. 

    We are winding up the capital improvements to the cemetery and it’s hard to believe the capital fundraising started in 2018 with two big line items completed in 2019 – removal of the dead and dying trees, the old rusted fence, installing the beautiful black aluminum fence, the installation of the one of a kind wrought iron gates in 2020 and two new headstones installed for Lt. Col. Thomas Paxton and Capt. John Ramsey. 

    This past year, 2021, Riverview Monuments came through with their commitment and supplied the cemetery with beautiful black granite remembrance markers for the unknown graves within the confines of the cemetery. Riverview Monuments also sandblasted the death date of Minerva Arbuckle Ramsey on her headstone and is currently working with the Daughters of the American Revolution, Clough Valley Chapter which commissioned bronze plaques to the matching black granite used for the remembrance markers to mark LT. Col. Thomas Paxton and his daughter Isabella Paxton Ramsey’s grave. The Cincinnati Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution is also coming up with their own marker for Captain John Ramsey to be installed in the cemetery. 

    We still could not find a local landscape company to even return phone calls to work on the grounds by leveling it out, planting grass seed, and providing grass management. Hopefully, we can find a company to provide this service in the early fall of 2022. 

    We are looking for volunteers to sand the flagpole and paint or donate a new flag pole in the month of April, 2022. 

    The Ramsey-Paxton Cemetery Association appreciates everyone that made this project a success! We could not even accomplish this task without some very key and instrumental partnerships. A huge “Thank You” to Loveland Magazine-our Media Sponsor, City of Loveland, Rainey Tree Service, Eads Fence Company, Loveland Legacy Foundation, Paxton’s Grill, Ramsey’s Trailside, and Riverview Monuments.    

    With the work coming to the end, we are pleased to announce the dedication of the cemetery in 2022. Please save the date: Saturday, May 7, 2022, at 1 PM at the Ramsey-Paxton Cemetery across from 185 Ramsey Court, Loveland, Ohio. We will have more information in the next couple of weeks. Everyone is invited to attend and celebrate Loveland’s heritage along with the families of Paxton and Ramsey.

    For the ones that are not familiar with the historically significant of this cemetery the biography of Paxton and Ramsey are as follows:

    The Ramsey-Paxton Cemetery originated in 1813 with the burial of Lt. Col. Thomas Paxton, a Revolutionary War Soldier, on land that he received for his military service. Paxton’s original land grant was 1,100 acres generally speaking the Northwest section of Clermont County. In 1795 Paxton and his sons-in-law came to settle the land and a year later sent for their wives and children to join them in their new home. 

    Lt. Col. Paxton (1739-1813) served with George Washington at Valley Forge in 1777 and with General Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. Lt. Col. Paxton is considered the first permanent settler between the Little Miami River and the Scioto River in the Virginia Military Tract, credited with raising the first crop of corn, and was the founder of Loveland. Paxton’s involvement is quite extensive helping Lytle with surveying lands in Clermont County down to parts of today’s community of Hyde Park, having the first polling place in Clermont County, and helping with the statehood of Ohio.

    Captain John Ramsey, a son-in-law, was buried in the cemetery in 1847, along with other family members until 1913. Captain John Ramsey (1764-1847) was a Revolutionary War Patriot and one of the first settlers of Clermont County with other family members. He was considered a proficient hunter even though his leg was amputated as a result of carrying out military duties.

  • Loveland Schools Covid-19 Dashboard for February 6, 2022

    Loveland Schools Covid-19 Dashboard for February 6, 2022

    Loveland, Ohio – At the beginning of each week, the Loveland City School District releases their latest Covid 19 Dashboard.

     
     
     
     

    Note the correction to the 10/3/ report and that community cases increased from 51 to 62.

     
     

     

     
  • $2,500 poured in to thank Loveland teachers, drivers, and staff

    $2,500 poured in to thank Loveland teachers, drivers, and staff

    by David Miller

    Loveland, Ohio – After it was announced that the Loveland schools were going into asynchronous learning for two days just ahead of the MLK Holiday break, to try to stem the tide of the COVID 19 outbreak in classrooms and among staff, a few hard-working parents went to work. They wanted to show their LOVEland LOVE to teachers and staff the day when students returned to in-person learning – the day after the holiday.

    A call was put out to collect donations of money and local goodies so the staff and teachers would know they are loved and appreciated for their dedication to our children.

    “We had an incredible outpouring of love from our community this morning for our teachers and staff at LCSD. The support came entirely from parents and families in the community,” said a statement by the organizers.

    600 staff across all schools were supported.

    “First and foremost – THANK YOU for so generously volunteering your time to help us succeed at showing our appreciation to all the staff members of LCSD. We could not have done this without the many hands you’re providing. Our community came through so strong with supporting this and it’s been such a pleasure to work with Erin and Becca to organize this! Our local businesses are grateful for our support of them in this mission to support our schools, overall an entire community support drive! It’s been an amazing couple of days…. COUPLE OF DAYS – with YOUR help we are getting this done in just a couple of days!”

    Andrea Kimmey

    Within just 5 days and over a couple of conversations, the idea blossomed into over $2,500 in contributions for our schools.

    Our amazing educators, bus drivers, and support staff have been stressed physically and emotionally from the toll of the pandemic. This was a way our community could say they are not forgotten or unappreciated. The community could show support even in a gesture like coffee and donuts. We hope it brightened their day and let them all know how much their community rallies behind them.

    “Donations were provided through Venmo and PayPal by the caring families, parents, and community in Loveland. With such a generous contribution, we have funding to do this again and be able to support local business at the same time,” said Becca Moates.

    Even though many community members may have differing views of how these past two years should have been handled – one thing we can certainly come together about is kindness and supporting the staff of Loveland schools. And that is what #beLOVEland is all about.

    The organizers got up bright and early in the AM with a group of super volunteers to pick up coffee and deliver both coffee and donuts to each school and the central office. Transportation had their own event with goody bags handcrafted by students and organized by Katie Smyth.

    Our local Businesses stood up and supported providing coffee and donuts. A special thanks to:

    • Blossim Donuts in Montgomery (new!), owned by Natalie Blomer.

    • Our very own Hometown Cafe owned by The Hooper Family.

    • Mile 42 owned by Tim Butler

    • And Biggby’s Coffee in Loveland franchised locally

    Volunteers included (but not an exhaustive list) Andrea Kimmey (organized and ran logistics), Erin Mix (organizer), Becca Moates (organizer), Katie Smyth (organizer), Kris Stapleton, Tara Hamilton, Laurie Hyrne, Lara Ferrer, Julianne Dominguez, Sharon Shepherd, and Liz Goldschmidt. Each of them arrived early, picking up and delivering the goodies to each school.

    SAW Pilates instructor Tara Hamilton said, “LIS/LMS said they were so excited for this and they were beyond appreciative. Thanks so much for all of your work. Such a great thing for our staff.”

    Photos provided by organizers.

    Andrea Kimmey said, “Our community came through so strong with supporting this and it’s been such a pleasure to work with Erin Mix and Becca Moates organizing this. Our local businesses were also grateful for the support of them in this mission to support our schools, overall an entire community support drive. It was an amazing couple of days.”

    A Google Doc was used for organizing pickup and delivery assignments and ended with this note to the volunteers:

    THANK YOU ALL, FOR SO GENEROUSLY VOLUNTEERING YOUR TIME TO HELP US SEND A “HUG” TO OUR STAFF MEMBERS AND SHARE OUR SUPPORT FOR ALL OF THEM! YOU ARE ALL THE VERY MEANING OF KINDNESS AND COMMUNITY. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

    Thank you all #beLOVEland community!

  • Rumpke accepts these items for Recycling

    Rumpke accepts these items for Recycling

    Loveland, Ohio – While the full list of acceptable materials may vary slightly in some locations, residents can typically recycle the following:

    • Glass Bottles & Jars (all colors)
    • Metal Cans: Aluminum cans, steel cans and lids, empty aerosol cans with the lids and tips removed
    • Plastic Bottles (empty, crush, reattach lid): Bottles and jugs that have a small mouth and wider base, such as milk jugs, soda bottles, laundry detergent bottles, water bottles, shampoo bottles and contact solution bottles
    • Plastic Tubs: Containers for butter, sour cream cottage cheese, yogurt, Jello and fruit slices would fall into the tub category. Lids should be reattached prior to recycling
    • Plastic Cups* (remove/discard straw, reattach lid): Fast food beverage cups 
    • Paper: newspaper, magazines, cardboard, mixed office paper and envelopes, paperboard (cereal boxes), pizza boxes free of food debris and grease, telephone books and catalogs
    • Paper Cups** (remove/discard lids, straws and stoppers): Fast food beverage cups, coffee cups, Dixie cups
    • Cartons: food and beverage cartons, such as milk, juice, soup, wine, broth and other cartons.

    *No cups will be accepted in Central Kentucky

    ** Paper cups not accepted in Northeast Ohio 

    Recycling Tips

    • Mix all items together – no separation required
    • Empty all bottles, jugs and cans
    • No need to remove labels
    • For plastic bottles, empty, crush and reattach lids
    • For cartons, remove plastic caps and straws
    • NEVER place medical sharps or needles in the recycling
    • DON’T use plastic bags

    NOT for Recycling
    No plastic bags, cassette tapes, bed sheets, hangers, metal chains, garden hoses, batteries, needles, syringes, electronics, polystyrene foam, buckets, car parts, food, yard waste, light bulbs, drinking glasses, ceramics, pots, pans, and scrap metal.

    If you are in need of a flyer detailing accepted recyclables, you can find a printout here.

    To see what happens to your recyclables, check out these videos.

  • Loveland City School District calls off school Thursday

    Loveland City School District calls off school Thursday

    Loveland, Ohio – Loveland City School District has canceled all classes tomorrow, Thursday, February 3.

    Winter Storm Warning

    A Winter Storm Warning has been issued from February 2 at 3:56 PM EST until February 4 at 7:00 AM EST by NWS Wilmington OH.

    WHAT…Heavy mixed precipitation is expected. Total snow and sleet accumulations of 1 to 3 inches and ice accumulations of one-tenth to three-tenths of an inch. Winds gusting as high as 35mph.

    WHERE…Portions of Southeast Indiana and Central and Southwest Ohio.

    WHEN…From midnight tonight to 7 AM EST Friday.* IMPACTS…Power outages and tree damage are likely due to the ice. Travel could be nearly impossible. Patchy blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. The hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.

    ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Wind chills will likely fall below zero degrees Friday night into Saturday morning.

  • DATE CHANGE State of the Region NEW DATE: Monday, February 7 at 11:30 AM

    DATE CHANGE State of the Region NEW DATE: Monday, February 7 at 11:30 AM

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    Due to impending weather, we are pushing back our State of the Region update event.
     
    Join us NEXT WEEK for the State of the Region 2022 Address! Hear from city and township leaders: David Kennedy (Loveland City Manager), Jeff Wright (Miami Township Administrator), and Kim Lapensee (Symmes Township Administrator) on their 2022 plans. Learn more about your community, economic development plans and stay informed for the upcoming year!
     
    Read below the original announcement about the ‘”State of the Region Update”
     

    by Cassie Mattia

    Loveland, Ohio – Only 2 days to go until your community’s State of the Region Update and we want to be sure you have all the details so you can attend! This is your chance to hear what’s in store for your community in 2022 and offer your feedback!

    Join the Little Miami River Chamber Alliance on Thursday, February 3rd at the Hamilton County Cooperative (HCC) from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM to learn more about what your community has planned for 2022! Topics will range from economic development to how your community officials plan on keeping you informed this year.

    This informative and exciting event will include lunch and guest speakers David Kennedy, Loveland’s City Manager, Jeff Wright, Miami Township Administrator, and Kim Lapensee, Symmes Township Administrator. Chamber members can attend the event for $30 while non-members can attend for $35. If you would like to attend the 2022 State of the Region Update sign up here!

    If you have any questions concerning the 2022 State of the Region Update please contact Meredith Taylor or visit the LMRCA website!

    We encourage everyone that can attend the 2022 State of the Region Update to come by and listen to what your local officials have to say about your community’s future! Let’s unite our communities and support one another along the way!

    For more local event updates stay tuned to the Loveland Salad With ME, Cassie Mattia!