Local news for Montgomery, Blue Ash, and Sycamore Township.
Local news for Montgomery, Blue Ash, and Sycamore Township.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Local Government
Sycamore Township will hold six JEDD and JEDZ board meetings on Tuesday, Sept. 1, including a required public hearing on a proposed income-tax district with the City of Reading and the regular Sycamore Township–City of Montgomery JEDD board session.
Local Government
Sycamore Township will hold six JEDD and JEDZ board meetings on Tuesday, Sept. 1, including a required public hearing on a proposed income-tax district with the City of Reading and the regular Sycamore Township–City of Montgomery JEDD board session.
Local Government
Sycamore Township will hold six JEDD and JEDZ board meetings on Tuesday, Sept. 1, including a required public hearing on a proposed income-tax district with the City of Reading and the regular Sycamore Township–City of Montgomery JEDD board session.
Local Government
Gov. Mike DeWine asked FEMA to begin assessing storm damage in Hamilton County on Aug. 20, bypassing the usual state-first process and advancing the question of whether local flood victims in Montgomery, Blue Ash and Sycamore Township will qualify for federal disaster relief.
Local Government
Rumpke is offering free yard waste drop-off from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, at two Hamilton County locations for residents still clearing debris from the Aug. 11 derecho.
Local Government
Sycamore Township trustees unanimously declared seven properties nuisances on Aug. 11 for overgrown vegetation and debris, giving owners seven days from notice to clean up or face township-contracted removal billed to their tax accounts.
Local Government
Montgomery's Planning Commission reviewed the final development plan for a $10.5 million Safety Center renovation and addition at its Aug. 3 meeting, the panel's first session since canceling its July 20 meeting; the outcome has not yet been posted.
Local Government
Montgomery's Environmental Advisory Commission is installing grant-funded solar panels on the Weller Park concession and restroom building, partnering with Cincinnati-based Melink Solar on a project projected to return more than 300% on investment over 10 years and offset 40 tons of CO2 emissions over its 30-year lifespan.
Local Government
Hamilton County commissioners voted 2-0 Monday to place a 5.61-mill children's services levy on the Nov. 3 ballot, raising costs from $82 to $121 per $100,000 of home value and stacking a second property tax increase alongside the Sycamore schools levy for local homeowners.
Local Government
Hamilton County commissioners vote Monday, Aug. 3, on which children's services levy option to place on the November 3 ballot, where Sycamore-area homeowners already face a 6.95-mill school levy.
Local Government
The Sycamore Township Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing Thursday, Aug. 13 on a Planned Unit Development application filed by Mark Spaulding Construction Company for a property at 7815 Redsky Drive currently zoned Light Industrial.
Local Government
Sycamore Township has scheduled a public hearing on the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church PUD II zoning application for Tuesday, August 11, after two earlier trustee sessions on the Kenwood Road project ended without a vote.
Local Government
Paragon Ranch, a 300-unit luxury apartment complex built by CIG Communities at 11600 Grooms Road in northern Sycamore Township, held its ribbon-cutting July 21 with township trustees in attendance, offering studios through three-bedrooms starting at $1,561 per month.
Local Government
Sycamore Township trustees unanimously hired TEC Engineering on July 21 to study whether a sidewalk can be built along Montgomery Road in front of Kenwood Towne Centre, a stretch that currently forces pedestrians onto unpaved shoulders or through parking lots.
Local Government
The Sycamore Township Board of Trustees voted 3-0 on Tuesday, July 7, to adopt the township's preliminary 2027 tax budget, a state-required spending plan that projects $2.995 million in General Fund expenditures and was filed with the Hamilton County Auditor the next day.
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