Orange Township residents who attended Tuesday night’s public information meeting on a proposed pedestrian bridge that would cross U.S. 23 are in favor of the project provided it gets enough use, and many doubt that it will.
Unhappy with the two options presented to the board of education earlier this month by Buckeye Valley Superintendent Jamie Grube, a group of Radnor area residents is preparing to present district officials with a “Plan C” to close the projected $1.3 million budget shortfall in the 2012–13 school year and salvage Buckeye Valley North Elementary in the process.
Incumbent county commissioner Ken O’Brien is running for another term to “ensure the taxpayer dollars are wisely spent”; and to finish projects currently underway.
Delaware Township residents are attempting to reverse an annexation agreement that would turn about eight acres of the township over to the City of Delaware.
Candidates for Powell City Council, Olentangy School Board, as well as Liberty and Orange Township trustee fielded questions about tax levies, cost-cutting measures and traffic congestion this week at a public forum put on by the League of Women Voters.
A former Delaware Township maintenance worker on Tuesday admitted to stealing taxpayer money to buy himself clothes and other personal items. Anthony F. Amato, Jr., 34, of 510 Anna Rose Lane in Westerville, also agreed to testify against his mother, Delaware Township Fiscal Officer Phyllis Amato, who is accused of concealing her son’s expenditures and paying him for full-time work even though he was a part-time employee.
Some elected officials in Delaware County have chosen to bow out of public office at the end of the year, while other familiar faces are seeking to make a return to the ballot this November. In total, 101 people filed paperwork with the Delaware County Board of Elections to run for 62 various township, school board and village and city council positions. The deadline for candidates wishing to run for local offices expiring at the end of this year passed at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Removing the ash tree was one important change made official Monday night to the Liberty Township tree policy. First approved in 1999, Liberty Township’s 12-year-old tree planting and management policy was targeted and undertaken for updates by township administrator Dave Anderson and zoning inspector Holly Foust.