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  • Meet the Council Candidates Wednesday evening

    Meet the Council Candidates Wednesday evening

    Loveland, Ohio – The Little Miami River Chamber Alliance and Loveland Magazine will co-host a Meet the Candidates night this Wednesday.

    The forum will be in the Media Center of the Loveland Middle School at 7 PM.

    The school is at 801 South Lebanon Road.

    This event is FREE and the public is encouraged to attend

    The format will follow the same as in the past:

    • Candidates will each present for 2 minutes to open the forum.
    • Questions will be asked for 60 minutes allowing each candidate two minutes to reply or pass.
    • After 60 minutes candidates will close with a 2 minute speech.
    Residents will be putting their questions into a “hat,” and all questions will be screened for duplication. The Honorable Judge Brad Greenburg (Hamilton County Courthouse) will serve as the emcee.

    LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV will broadcast the event live on our Facebook Page.

     

  • Loveland’s Fall Brush Pick-up Schedule

    Loveland’s Fall Brush Pick-up Schedule

    Loveland, Ohio – Here are the instructions and the date for the City’s Fall Brush Pick-up.

    You can also click on this .pdf and print this information to have in a convenient place as a reminder: Loveland’s Fall Brush Pick-up

    If you find this story useful and helpful in your daily life…

     

  • Council candidate asks, “Who’s watching out for Loveland’s resident taxpayers?”

    Council candidate asks, “Who’s watching out for Loveland’s resident taxpayers?”

    by Cory O’Donnell

    Who’s watching out for Loveland’s resident taxpayers? Our city leaders have ventured down a road with a questionable road map. The city is in the midst of possibly the most expensive civic project ever with $7+ million of resident taxpayer money on the line to construct a parking garage. 

    Cory O’Donnell lives in the White Pillars Subdivision and is a Loveland City Council Candidate

    Who would argue the need for a parking facility given the explosion of visitors to the downtown area? Certainly, there needs to be adequate parking to support the masses that want to enjoy the available offerings.  Visitors welcome the day when they don’t have to circle the downtown area for what seems to be an eternity to secure a valuable parking spot. Alternatively, some come to spend their time and money only to turn around and go home…nowhere to park.

    Imagine the business owners that are giddy with the prospect of the resident taxpayers footing the bill to get more cash through their doors.  Who could blame them for the smiles on their faces? Not me; what a gift!

    But here’s where the roadmap leads to resident taxpayer disaster. There is no published plan to recover the $7+ million and make the taxpayers whole. Further, my calculator can’t get to a full lot, 365 days a year for 30 years, that will recover resident taxpayer investment.

    I am far from knowledgeable about developing, constructing and managing a public parking garage. My assumption is our city leaders are well versed in public policy, zoning, codes, and other daily municipal functions, but there are specialists in private development that have the knowledge and expertise to make this happen on a for-profit basis.

    Is it too late to get the proper road map that assures resident taxpayers are not left holding this massive debt?

    P.S.  Our city is already committed to close to $48,000 annually in debt service for the Christman Farm property on Butterworth Road acquired in 2007 which has remained vacant all these years and has disappeared from the city council’s interest. This translates to hundreds of thousands of resident taxpayer’s dollars being flushed down the proverbial toilet for too many more years.

    Can you afford more?  Who’s going to step up to the plate and get the answers?


  • [Video Interview] Loveland Frogman Race

    [Video Interview] Loveland Frogman Race

    by Cassie Mattia

    Loveland, Ohio (The Staycation Resort of Southwest Ohio)- I met Meredith Taylor and Mark Bersani on the most beautiful of sunny afternoons on the bank of our State and National Scenic and wild Little Miami River yesterday to ask them questions about the up-coming Loveland Frogman Race, but the conversation also turned to important topics of interest about two Loveland institutions. Mark and his wife Robin own Loveland Canoe & Kayak and Meredith is the Program Director of the Little Miami River Chamber Alliance.

    Click the paddle to learn more about the Loveland Frogman Race and how you can register. Registration is filling up fast!

    The Frogman Race is centered at Loveland Canoe & Kayak in Historic Downtown and Mark promises plenty of available parking in the civic lot adjacent to his business. You will be taken by bus into Warren County to canoe/kayak back to Loveland, and then bike the Loveland Bike Trail to Miami Township’s Riverview Park and sprint back again. Sprint if you can, however, Mark and Meredith say the event is more for fun than the competition of it. There is however plenty of pride and friendly home-grown competition in winning or beating your time from last year. Can you claim the title of “Top Frog”?

    Individual spots (all of the kayaks have been reserved) for the 5 Mile Canoe/Kayak, 8 Mile Bike ride, and 5K Run have filled, but you can still register as a team and reserve a canoe.

    Both Meredith and Mark were pretty coy in their answers when asked whether anyone would run into the famous Loveland Frog along the course, in or out of the river!

    We also talked about wine tastings, morning mixers, the Chamber’s 300th member celebration, the Fall for Symmes Fall Festival, and the annual Chamber award banquet.

    Mark shares the remaining dates on their river calendar if you still want to get on the scenic river this year and how he and Robin are hosting a large group of inner-city youth on the river immediately after the finish of the Frogman Race.

    PHEW! That’s a lot of good information. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

  • Loveland’s Rails Trails & Ales Festival is Sept. 6 thru 8

    Loveland’s Rails Trails & Ales Festival is Sept. 6 thru 8

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    Loveland, Ohio – The City of Loveland is proud to present the Rails Trails & Ales Festival.  This new three-day event will begin on Friday, September 6  and run through Sunday, September 8, with the return of the Loveland Art Show in Nisbet Park.  Come out for a weekend packed full of musical performances, shopping, food, and art.

     

     

     

     

     

  • Did we move to the mountains?

    Did we move to the mountains?

    Symmes Township, Ohio – When Jennifer Miller posted these photos of Tuesday afternoon’s storm she posed the rhetorical question, “Did we move to the mountains?”

    She took the photos while in the Hearthstone subdivision. She told Loveland Magazine that they didn’t scare her.

  • Seung-Min Ko delivers Valedictory Address at Loveland High School Graduation

    Seung-Min Ko delivers Valedictory Address at Loveland High School Graduation

  • City Engineer reports suggested fixes to prevent crashes into the low clearance, train trestle

    City Engineer reports suggested fixes to prevent crashes into the low clearance, train trestle

    Loveland, Ohio – On February 26, City Engineer, Cindy Klopfenstein,  said that during the first nine months of 2018, the City experienced 33 reported vehicle crashes into the low clearance, train trestle on Karl Brown Way in Historic Downtown Loveland.* To reduce the number of wrecks and traffic congestion they cause, the City hired Choice One Engineering to complete a safety study of the area.

    Based on the study, Klopfenstein reported on her evaluation of the findings. This LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV video is Klopfenstein’s report to City Council.

    * From the minutes of the Council meeting: “City Engineer, Cindy Klopfenstein, noted that during the first nine months of 2018, the City experienced 33 reported crashes at the train trestle on Karl Brown Way.” We should have paid more attention to what the City Engineer actually said, rather than what the minutes reported she said. Klopfenstein says in the video, that the 33 crashes occurred from 2016 through the first 9 months of 2018, not just the first 9 months of 2018.

  • Bionic Tigers win multiple awards at Pennsylvania robotics competition

    Bionic Tigers win multiple awards at Pennsylvania robotics competition

    Loveland’s Bionic Tigers won multiple awards at the West Central Pennsylvania Qualifying Tournament and will be competing in the Pennsylvania State Championship in March

    Loveland’s FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) team 10464, The Bionic Tigers, competed in the West Central Pennsylvania Qualifying Tournament on December 8 in Johnstown, PA. The team won the Connect Award for “the team that most connects with their local science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) community” and won second place in the Inspire Award. The Inspire Award is the top award given at an FTC competition and is presented to the team that best “embodies the ‘challenge’ of the FIRST Tech Challenge Program.” Out of the 24 registered teams in the competition, 10464 also received third place for the Think, Design and Motivate Awards.

    Based on their Inspire Award placement, the Bionic Tigers advanced to the Pennsylvania State Championship Tournament on March 2-3.

    Christine Rasmussen: An opportunity to sponsor a Loveland Robotics tournament

    Loveland Robotics hosts 2 upcoming tournaments

      RP Diamond is the exclusive retailer of LOVELAND HIGH SCHOOL SPIRIT WEAR Welcome to  RP Diamond Printing & Embroidery located at 370 Loveland Madeira Road.

  • Old Loveland bowling alley to be home to Oasis Turf and Tree

    Old Loveland bowling alley to be home to Oasis Turf and Tree

    Loveland, Ohio – In 2014 City taxpayers, through the Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) purchased the site of the closed, Loveland Lanes bowling alley. The CIC demolished the building in 2015 in preparation of looking for a buyer. In April of 2017, the CIC sold the property for $540,000 to Lebanon based Schueler Group who said they would look for investors interested in building a combination of professional/medical office and retail, including restaurant space on the 6.53-acre parcel. Construction was planned to start in April 2017.

    On August 21, by a unanimous vote, the Planning and Zoning Commission approved the site plan for Oasis Turf and Tree to build a 26,284 square foot office/warehouse complex (8,183 square feet of office/business space and 18,101 square feet of warehousing) that will serve as the company’s headquarters with up to 70 employees.

    The site will include a detention basin located in the northwest corner of the property and seventy-nine (79) parking spaces with three (3) handicap spaces.

    Oasis Turf and Tree is currently at 8900 Glendale-Milford Road. The new location will be at 897 Loveland Madeira Road across from the Loveland Kroger store.

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