Jennifer Edwards Baker reports:
A power outage has shut down Western Row Elementary School in Mason today, district officials said.
The school is located at 755 Western Row Road.
Parents are advised to check the school’s website for further updates: http://www.masonohioschools.com/WesternRow.cfm
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Wilson Road in Deerfield Township will close from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The closure is due to tree removal along the roadway between Kings Island Drive and Columbia Road.
Detours will be posted and will use Kings Island Drive and Kings Mill and Columbia roads.
For more information, call the Warren County Engineer’s office at 513-695-3302 or go to www.wceo.us.
Construction projects have closed a portion of U.S. 42 in Mason for 30 days beginning today.
The Ohio Department of Transportation closed the roadway between SR 741 and Mason-Montgomery Road to replace a culvert in the area.
Drivers will have to use alternate routes, which are posted and utilize SR 741 and Bethany and Mason-Montgomery roads.
For more information, call ODOT’s District 8 office in Lebanon at 513-932-3030.
A portion of U.S. 42 in Mason will close for 30 days beginning April 22.
The Ohio Department of Transportation will close the roadway between SR 741 and Mason-Montgomery Road for work to replace a culvert.
Detours will be posted and utilize SR 741 and Bethany and Mason-Montgomery roads.
For more information, call ODOT’s District 8 office in Lebanon at 513-932-3030
Kings Island closed The Bat in 1984, saying the coaster never operated up to expectations and would be too costly to fix. AP photo
John Kiesewetter reports:
Watching that “Brady Bunch” show from Kings Island got me thinking about all the long-gone rides at the park. Can you help me list them all?
I was surprised how many rides are gone. Of course there were the Sky Ride and Antique Cars, but I didn’t remember the Canoe ride, where people padded over to an island with the Indian tepees.
The vast empty spaces at Kings Island from the “Brady Bunch” aerial shots showed how the park had grown and changed over 40 years. The Bradys were there before Lion Country Safari opened (in 1974).
Below is my list of long-gone rides from the “Brady Bunch” episode. There are so many other rides that have come and gone since then, like the King Cobra stand-up coaster or Sky Lab. Can you add to my list?
What were your favorite rides and attractions that are no longer there?
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A portion of Socialville-Foster Road will remain closed on Friday, reports the Warren County Engineer’s Office.
The roadway was originally scheduled to close between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday between Old 3C Highway and Western Row Road in Deerfield Township. The work has now been extended through Friday.
Detours will be posted and will use Old 3C Highway, Landen Drive and Socialville-Foster Road.
For more information, call the engineer’s office at 513-695-3302 or go to www.wceo.us.
A portion of Socialville-Foster Road will close for four hours Thursday, reports the Warren County Engineer’s Office.
The roadway will close between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. between Old 3C Highway and Western Row Road in Deerfield Township.
The original closure date was set for Wednesday, but weather forecasts pushed construction back one day.
Detours will be posted and will use Old 3C Highway, Landen Drive and Socialville-Foster Road.
For more information, call the engineer’s office at 513-695-3302 or go to www.wceo.us.
The Mason Community Center is offering special deals for members of the now-closed Mason Urban Active fitness club.
Urban Active closed its Mason location last Friday following a buyout of the Kentucky-based chain by LA Fitness.
The closure came on the same day LA Fitness announced it had completed an agreement to purchase “substantially all of the assets relating to Urban Active’s clubs in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Nebraska, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.”
LA Fitness will honor all of Urban Active’s current membership and personal training agreements, officials said.
The 27,000-square-foot Mason club is the only location to close. Members of that club are being referred to a 50,000-square-foot LA Fitness Club at 11359 Montgomery Road, Symmes Township.
Urban Active had 36 locations, including 19 in Ohio and six in the Cincinnati area. Founded in 2007 in Lexington, Ky., the chain had an estimated $107.5 million in revenue in 2011, according to trade publication Club Industry.
Through Dec. 15, Urban Active club members can receive a free week of premier membership at the Mason Community Center when they show their club fitness cards.
Urban Active members who join the community center by Dec. 15 will receive their first month of membership free (administrative fee applies).
The Mason Community Center offers two pools, a spa, fitness center, personal training packages, track, gymnasium and field house with basketball courts, climbing wall, child care, cafe and programs for people of all ages.
The center is at 6050 Mason-Montgomery Road and can be reached at 513-229-8555.
Sue Kiesewetter reports:
A portion of Butler-Warren Road will close for one week beginning Monday so that sanitary sewers can be installed.
The road will close at the West Chester Township and Warren County line, .2 mile north of the Taffy Drive/Fieldstone Place intersection and .2 mile south of U.S. 42.
Northbound Butler-Warren Road traffic will detour west on West Chester Road and northeast on U.S. 42. Southbound traffic would reverse the route.
Weather permitting; the road will reopen Oct. 12.
This project is not related to the Butler-Warren Road widening effort which begins about 1.6 miles to the north.
Michael D. Clark and Sue Kiesewetter report:
Thousands of students in four northern suburbs are starting the school year in new schools.
In Butler County, Talawanda and Edgewood schools open newly constructed high schools and in Warren County’s Little Miami Schools, two previously shuttered schools are being prepared to open soon.
And Wednesday Mason Schools – Warren County’s largest school system – starts an historical experiment with the first school consolidation in the top-rated district’s history.
More than 1,800 students – including 180 from the Catholic Royalmont Academy – have been shifted to new schools starting Wednesday.
Officials at the 11,000-student district closed Mason Heights Elementary, shifting hundreds of students to Western Row Elementary and the Mason Early Childhood Center. The Mason Heights building was then sold to Royalmont, which is moving from its much smaller Mason school campus into a bigger school.
“It’s just great,” Tony Feraro, executive director of Royalmont, said Tuesday. “We’ve gone from 23,000 square feet to 105,000 square feet and it’s a remarkable facility.”
Mason’s shifting of about 1,600 students to different schools has gone well, said Tracey Carson, spokeswoman for the district.
“Not only is the plan really coming together, but so are our students – literally. Our principals and teachers have done an outstanding job of making this historic step for our district go smoothly,” she said.
Little Miami Schools remain under state control and in “fiscal emergency” But a tax levy approval by voters in fall 2011 – after eight ballot rejections – has the Warren County district headed toward solvency and return of local autonomy in 2013.
The district’s enrollment is growing again and two schools – Harlen-Butlerville and Hamilton-Maineville – that closed in recent years as the district sank into financial distress are being re-opened.
Little Miami Superintendent Greg Power said the community supported the re-opening of the two buildings.
“Our current enrollment numbers are showing a nearly 400student increase over our population last year,’’ Power said. “If we hadn’t opened these schools, overcrowding would have made it next to impossible to provide a quality learning environment for our students.”
The new Talawanda High School began classes Monday, welcoming nearly 1,100 students and a new Edgewood High School opened its doors Tuesday with more than 1,150 students.
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