Symmes Township, Ohio – The Loveland High and Middle Schools are hosting the Eastern Cincinnati Conference (ECC) championship meet this Saturday at Home of the Brave park.
As of last Thursday, the LHS women’s team was still ranked #1 in Ohio and the Men’s team was ranked #5.
High school runners will compete on a 5K course and the Middle school runners compete on a 2-mile course.
It is also Senior Day for our high school seniors.
This is a once in a lifetime chance to see these State ranked student athletes and cheer them to the finish line.
Loveland, Ohio – Ohio K-12 schools, including public, private, and career-tech entities, yesterday learned when their teachers and staff necessary for in-person learning are able to begin receiving vaccines.
Loveland City School District is included in COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Week 2 of first doses, starting February 8 as well as Indian Hill, Moeller, St. Xavier, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, Forest Hills (Anderson), Great Oaks Career Campuses, and Sycamore.
Included in Distribution Week 3 are, Kings, Lebanon, Little Miami, Mason, and St Margaret Of York.
Included in Distribution Week 4 are, Children’s Meeting House, Goshen, Milford, Ohio Valley Voices, and St. Columban.
Cincinnati Public Schools were able to jump the line and began their vacinations yesterday.
Loveland’s schools remain in hybird-learning at all buildings, a combination of some students and staff attending in-person five-days per week and some students and staff teaching or learning in Loveland’s Remote Academy five-days a week.*
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has said that he is making it clear his “goal of Ohio returning to in-person learning either full-time or in a hybrid model by March 1st.” In order to do this, the governor identified teachers and school personnel necessary for in-person learning as Phase 1B recipients as part of the Ohio COVID-19 Vaccination program.
“Vaccine is incredibly scarce, and we simply don’t have enough to vaccinate everyone at the same time. Therefore, this will be a rolling process, just like it has been during other vaccination phases, with a goal of administering all first doses by March 1st,” said Governor DeWine. “This rollout schedule is a heavy logistical lift that aims to ensure the maximum number of people can be vaccinated in the shortest amount of time.”
In a news release, Dewine said, “The plan also makes the process as simple as possible for staff to be vaccinated and is organized to allow most K-12 staff in a county to be vaccinated within seven days of their assigned vaccination start date. For the limited number of counties where vaccinations will take place over multiple weeks, local leaders will make the logistical and scheduling decisions.”
Eligible school employees will learn more about the locations and times of the vaccination sites from their administrators. The following documents list the entities by county in the week when teachers and personnel are able to begin vaccinations.
Loveland, Ohio – Calling all student-athletes, coaches, parents, and fans! The Eastern Cincinnati Conference (ECC) recently announced that they will be going through somewhat of a league transformation. In addition to adding three new schools, Little Miami, Winton Woods, and Lebanon, to the ECC for the 2020-2021 sports season they are also looking to add a new conference slogan.
The ECC stated that they would love to bring more awareness and reach to the conference’s brand so the conference decided to have students, coaches, and fans submit slogan ideas. The ECC selected the top 4 slogan ideas and posted them on the ECC website so that anyone and everyone could vote on their favorite slogan! Below are the top 4 slogan selections.
1. Engage. Compete. Conquer
2. Excite. Challenge. Compete.
3. Eastern Cincinnati Conference … top-level competition with community-based values.
4. Engagement. Competition. Community. We are the ECC!
The Slogan Contest allows voters to submit their slogan selection as many times as they want up until Friday, June 26th, 2020. The new slogan will be released in early July. If you would like to participate in the Slogan Contest click the link below to submit your vote!
Loveland, Ohio – Just when local folks thought things were returning to the way they were, Barbara Streisand style, mother nature had another trick up her frock to show us who’s boss when around 4″ of rain swelled Loveland’s streams Tuesday morning. For those with a flooded basement or business, swell would be a wrong description.
Memories light the corners of my mind Misty water-colored memories of the way we were Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were
Can it be that it was all so simple then Or has time rewritten every line
Here are some of the videos and photos sent our way. We appreciate these in the way it documents Loveland, Ohio on May 19, 2020.
A return to normal is a typical Spring rain event when the town is divided by the State and National Scenic Little Miami River.
This video was sent by Cindy Wilmes.
This video was sent by reader Nick Dyson.
This aerial footage and the following photos were taken by Steve Beamer who puts all of Loveland in the passenger seat of his drone.
Wait till Steve takes you just a few feet from the railroad overpass where the water crashes into the pillar with such tremendous force.
Wait till Steve flys you under the Col. Paxton Bridge at West Loveland Avenue then soars high above Historic Downtown.
These photos were sent to us from Eileen Washburn.
Belching husband or is the Loveland Frog Man back?
Loveland, Ohio – A reader contacted Loveland Magazine this morning asking if anyone else has heard the “extremely loud belching noise” coming from a creek in the Little River Lane area.
She said:
I wanted to relate something that happened last night in the hope that someone else may have heard the same thing and reported it.
My husband and I live at Little River Lane, with a creek in the back that empties into the Little Miami. We had our windows open and in the past have heard coyotes, owls, skunks, raccoons but last night something very odd was heard by both of us.
I was dead asleep and heard this extremely loud belching noise coming from what I thought was our downstairs and perhaps my husband. He was not there but rather in the basement. So upon returning to the upstairs, we both heard the extremely loud belching sound coming from the creek. He went out with a flashlight and an air horn to scare whatever it was away.
He reported he heard some splashing and scuttling in the creek by a dog size animal. This happened around 1:30 AM. We returned to sleep but the “thing” returned to belch.
I have to say it was so loud it could have come from a cow. The horse and not the zebra would be a bullfrog, but if so this must have been one large bullfrog! Is the Loveland Frog Man back?
If you have also recently heard an “extremely loud belching noise” in the Little River Lane area or elsewhere along the Little Miami, please contact Loveland Magazine at editor@lovelandmagazine.com and we will pass the information along to our reader.
Loveland, Ohio – On Thursday, March 29 at 11:20 PM, many residents received a phone call from the Hamilton County Emergency Management & Homeland Security Agency. It was a recorded robocall notifying residents that a flood warning had been issued. Problem was, it was supposed to alert residents along the Great Miami River, not the Little Miami. The failure was due to a malfunction in Hamilton County’s mass notification tool according to Ryan McEwan, the Assistant Director of the agency. The National Weather Service in Wilmington issued a Flood Warning for the Great Miami River in western Hamilton County.
In a press release, McEwan said, “Hamilton County Emergency Management & Homeland Security Agency (EMHSA) is working with our mass notification vendor to identify why the malfunction occurred and to ensure it does not occur again.”
On the agency’s Facebook page one resident posed this question:
“I got a call at 11:30 on my land line phone. I didn’t subscribe. Wondering why.”
The agency responded:
“You were alerted of the Flood Warning because our system is set up to call land lines during an emergency that could threaten life safety or when severe weather (like a Tornado Warning or Flood Warning) is issued for your area. Unfortunately, there was a malfunction in the system last night that called more residents than intended. We have since fixed this issue and it should not happen again. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.”
Another resident asked this question:
“The phone call at that hour of the night scared me half to death!! I was afraid there was something wrong with one of our children or grandchildren!”
The agency did not respond.
Another resident asked this question:
“When it IS working properly, will we be notified every hour on the hour? That how it worked for me overnight…1x would have been sufficient. Just wondering, thank you!”
The agency responded:
“No ma’am. I really apologize for the inconvenience. We have addressed the issue so that the system will work as intended. Again, we sincerely apologize.”
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EDITORS NOTE:Because the proposal goes into no detail or discussion of possible negative impact to private property, homeowners (the residential Main Street neighborhood), schools, the natural environment, street trees, or aesthetics, this is an important read for those affected property owners along the proposed route.
City recommendation is for parking on west side of town and walking or bicycling into Historic District on new pathway and crossing river using existing bridge – Cost to be $1,623,000.
by David Miller
Loveland, Ohio – The City commissioned a study of how to alleviate parking congestion yet bring more customers into Historic Downtown by developing a new crossing over the Little Miami River. The report was released last Wednesday. The recommendation is to create “parking pods” in existing commercial and school parking lots or create new parking lots on existing City owned land in the Loveland Madeira Road business corridor and in the West Loveland Historic District. A new ten-foot shared pathways for pedestrians and bicycles along Loveland Madeira, West Loveland Avenue, and possibly Main Street would bring the customers into the Historic District via the existing roadway of the Col. Thomas Paxton Bridge.
Talk of a new bridge over the State and National Little Miami Scenic River or expanding the existing bridge over the river have been abandoned in favor of using a shared lane for pedestrians and bicycles on the existing roadway over the bridge.
The report says:
While a stand-alone bridge, a modification to the existing bridge to create a cantilever type path were both examined, the most feasible and cost-effective crossing entails the modification of the existing lanes of traffic of the bridge to accommodate an expansion of the existing sidewalk.
The cost estimate for the project is $1,623,215.
Project Goals
• Develop a safe, feasible crossing over the Little Miami River • Reduce downtown traffic congestion by encouraging riders to park and ride into downtown
The preferred option according to a recommendation to City Council by City Manager Dave Kennedy is to modify the Col. Thomas Paxton Bridge to accommodate a 10 ft. wide separated path with three vehicle lanes across the bridge. The “collector pathway” is expected to encourage Loveland Bike Trail users to “park and walk or ride” into the Historic Downtown District.
Description
The Loveland Collector Trail will be a new, shared use, grade-separated facility connecting the Loveland Madeira Business Corridor to the Historic Downtown District. The intent of this facility is to provide visible, shared parking opportunities at strategic locations westof the river, along Loveland Madeira Rd, where Little Miami Scenic Trail users – or general visitors to Downtown Loveland – can park their vehicle and follow an easily-navigable shared-use trail along Loveland Madeira Rd, across the Little Miami Scenic River and into the Historic Downtown District to the Little Miami Scenic Trail trailhead.
Preferred Alignment
The eastern terminus of the proposed Loveland Connector Trail will begin at the proposed Deer Ridge II development (1401 Loveland Madeira Rd). The shared-use path will continue along Loveland Madeira Rd to W Loveland Rd, where users will turn right onto W Loveland Ave and cross the Little Miami Scenic River on the existing W Loveland Ave bridge into downtown Loveland.
Alternative Alignments
Similar to the preferred alignment, the shared-use path will continue along Loveland Madeira Rd to the south of Main Street where the City owns a vacant development parcel (referred to as the Chestnut St. Development) between Loveland Maderia Rd and the river. Users can turn right onto one of the three access points into the Chestnut St. development. From there they can either head north through the future development or the existing residential streets to access a river crossing.
“Next step is to seek funding for construction.” – City Manager Dave Kennedy
Kennedy is confident he will find 80% of the $1,623,000 cost from the Federal Government. The city was able to secure grant funding ($19,900) from the Hamilton County Planning and Development Department to conduct the feasibility study. At the council meeting, he said, “Next step is to seek funding for construction. We are still digesting it… looking for the funding.” He said councilman Ted Phelps is reaching out to the Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) for funding.
Also during the Council discussion, Phelps who is spearheading the project, inherited from former councilman Brent Zuck, said about the Loveland Connector Trail, “This serves two larger, important goals and it’s a big step towards getting those goals realized. Number one is to reduce traffic in downtown Loveland. Second thing it does… I think it’s an economic shot in the arm for the Loveland Madeira corridor which I think will have positive repercussions.”
Phelps said that people who are using the bike trail are using too many of the downtown parking spots and using them for too long a period of time. “This is going to give them another place to get on the trail, better parking, easier on and off.”
“In delivering it (the study) to Bob Koehler at last week at the regular OKI meeting, he was very positive in terms of its reception,” said Phelps. Koehler is Deputy Executive Director/Transportation Manager at OKI.
Phelps said, “We will be moving forward on this and I think it will be another great feather in the cap of Loveland when it’s realized.”
“We still need people to weigh in on it,” Phelps said. “We will be moving forward on this and I think it will be another great feather in the cap of Loveland when it’s realized.” He suggested the plan be put on the City’s website.
The study does not contain any data on potential number of users, nor potential customers to Loveland Madeira Road businesses. The study also does not address any repercussions on the residential neighborhood of Main Street or the Business/Residential neighborhood on West Loveland Avenue.
There has been no recommendation to forward the plan to the Planing and Zoning Commission, Tree and Environment Committee, Beautification Committee or Safety Service & Street Improvement Committee for review. No public hearings are scheduled.
by Cassie Mattia
The ECC stated that they would love to bring more awareness and reach to the conference’s brand so the conference decided to have students, coaches, and fans submit slogan ideas. The ECC selected the top 4 slogan ideas and posted them on the ECC website so that anyone and everyone could vote on their favorite slogan! Below are the top 4 slogan selections.
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