Westerville Real Estate
Andrew Levene: Mysterious life before Westport tragedy – Westport
It’s a story of diamonds, deals, debts and death. It’s filled with intrigue, secrecy and a murder. There’s an Army career, a trail of financial troubles, a suspected arson and an international manhunt for Andrew Robert Levene that ends with two families shattered forever. Some who knew Levene shake their head in disbelief that this [...]
Read More >>The mysterious life of Andrew Levene
It’s a story of diamonds, deals, debts and death. It’s filled with intrigue, secrecy and a murder. There’s an Army career, a trail of financial troubles, a suspected arson and an international manhunt for Andrew Robert Levene that ends with two families shattered forever. Some who knew Levene shake their head in disbelief that this [...]
Read More >>2012 Central Ohio Power 100
You’ll see quite a few familiar faces on this year’s Power 100, and that might lead you to decide the list is a bit stale. Skeptics would say these so-called influential leaders of Central Ohio are content with the positions they have achieved and aren’t doing anything to make the region better. When you look [...]
Read More >>Pickleball a hit with Westerville seniors
Westerville seniors are enjoying a relatively new sport with an unusual name. Pickleball made its debut at the Westerville Community Center in September, and as its popularity grows, could be offered more than twice a week. Eric Dicke, recreation manager for the Westerville Parks and Recreation Department, said the game is a mix between table [...]
Read More >>Uptown buildings eligible for spruce-up grants from city
Significant upgrades are expected this year in Uptown as a result of the city’s Uptown Facade Improvement Program. The pilot program will offer grants that would pay building owners up to 50 percent of the cost of exterior improvements, with the maximum grant for one facade capped at $15,000. The Westerville Industry and Commerce Corporation [...]
Read More >>Polaris developer buys back closed amphitheater tract
After five years on the market, a vacant and vandalized Germain Amphitheater has been purchased. Polaris developer NP Limited will spend $6.5 million to again become the owners of the concert pavilion and its 91 surrounding acres on the north side of Polaris Parkway, just east of Interstate 71 near the Columbus-Westerville border. “When they [...]
Read More >>Another parent charged with OVI, endangering children
For the second consecutive week, Westerville police charged a parent for child endangerment on suspicion of drunken driving with children in the vehicle. At 7 p.m. Feb. 7 employees of the Westerville Community Center, 350 N. Cleveland Ave., contacted police because a 38-year-old man appeared intoxicated when dropping off his daughters an hour late for [...]
Read More >>OAPSE agrees to pay freeze
By Jennifer Nesbitt ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 15, 2012 5:34 PM Another Westerville City Schools union has agreed to pay freezes and benefit concessions. Members of OAPSE Local 138, which represents the district’s 179 custodians, maintenance staff and food-service workers, voted Feb. 13 to approve a two-year pay freeze that includes both the step [...]
Read More >>Property owner fears effect of corridor upgrades
By BILL EICHENBERGER ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 15, 2012 5:35 PM Plans to improve Westerville’s South State Street corridor are well under way, with Phase One in construction and Phase Two on the drawing board. But at least one property owner is worried that improvements intended to increase the vitality of the city’s southern [...]
Read More >>Another Westerville union agrees to pay freeze
By Jennifer Nesbitt ThisWeek Community Newspapers Monday February 13, 2012 1:28 PM Westerville City Schools’ custodians and maintenance and food-service workers voted to freeze their pay and increase their healthcare contributions Feb. 13. Members of OAPSE Local 138, which represents 180 district employees, agreed to a two-year pay freeze that includes both the step increases [...]
Read More >>Granville H. Fuller
Print this Article Email this Article WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Granville Hutchinson Fuller, 88, formerly of Upper Arlington, Ohio, Rye, N.H., and Boston, Mass., died Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, at Manor Care in Westerville. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. His life’s work was banking and real estate, but beyond that, [...]
Read More >>Transition center a concern for some in community
Few topics are more emotional in Lancaster than the Community Transition Center, the Hubert Street halfway house that opened in 1997. Although some support the agency, even after 15 years it remains something of an enigma to local law enforcement. “CTC is largely a mysterious operation to us here at the (Lancaster Police Department),” Police [...]
Read More >>City Planners To Consider Concept, Traffic Study For Multi-Family Complex On …
The Greeneville Regional Planning Commission will consider a concept for a multi-family complex with a traffic study on East Barton Ridge Road when the commission meets Tuesday, Feb. 14. The meeting will be held at 9:30 in the board room at the Greeneville Light Power System. In December, the planning commission reviewed the multi-family complex [...]
Read More >>Uptown buildings eligible for spruce-up grants from city
Significant upgrades are expected this year in Uptown as a result of the city’s Uptown Facade Improvement Program. The pilot program will offer grants that would pay building owners up to 50 percent of the cost of exterior improvements, with the maximum grant for one facade capped at $15,000. The Westerville Industry and Commerce Corporation [...]
Read More >>Former Army Reserve Center in Whitehall awaits metamorphosis
Whitehall has yet to receive the title to the property that will become the city’s community and recreation center, but officials have started what is expected to be about a three-year process to finish the project. Among the amenities officials pledged to provide residents in return for approving a 0.5 percent income tax increase in [...]
Read More >>Harris: Vacancies high, but city projects on the horizon
Enlarge Image Adam Cairns/ThisWeek Worthington economic development manager Jeffry Harris discusses the potential for redevelopment of the Wilson Bridge corridor during the annual Groundhog Day breakfast at Brookside Country Club on Feb. 2. Buy This Photo By Candy Brooks ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 8, 2012 6:02 PM With a commercial vacancy rate of nearly [...]
Read More >>City program aims for quality Uptown facelift
By BILL EICHENBERGER ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 8, 2012 5:25 PM Jason Bechtold is an economic development administrator for the city of Westerville. But lately, he’s been making the rounds in the facelift business. Last Thursday, Feb. 2, Bechtold spoke at a meeting of the Westerville Uptown Merchants Association about the city’s Uptown Facade [...]
Read More >>Mayor: City’s development commendable, but financial outlook uncertain
By David S. Owen ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 8, 2012 5:11 PM Mayor Brad McCloud highlighted development while recognizing the city’s uncertain financial outlook during his annual State of the City address to the Reynoldsburg Area Chamber of Commerce Feb. 2. McCloud said considering the state of the economy, development in the city did [...]
Read More >>Speakers try to clarify Ohio’s school-funding formula
By SCOTT GERFEN ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 8, 2012 5:41 PM At a time when more and more school districts are going to voters for money, the formula used to fund Ohio schools remains as controversial as Ohio Supreme Court decision which ruled it to be unconstitutional in 1997. Those who took part in [...]
Read More >>Middlefield Banc Corp. Reports Record Earnings Performance for 2011
MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Middlefield Banc Corp. (otcqb:MBCN), parent of The Middlefield Banking Company and Emerald Bank, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011. Net Income for the fourth quarter was $1,329,000, an increase of 91.5% from the $694,000 reported for the [...]
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