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PARKERSBURG – Parkersburg City Council members will gather Friday to discuss the issues they hope to focus on this year.
Council President Zach Stanley said he wanted to have a workshop similar to the forum former Councilman John Reed organized when he served as president in 2018.
“It was a good way to kind of get everybody on the same page,” Stanley said.
Everyone who runs for council has certain goals they want to accomplish or issues they hope to address, Stanley said. The workshop is a chance for the five incumbent and four new members of council to discuss these goals, see how they fit into the city’s role of providing essential services and set priorities in concert with the administration, he said.
Out with 1920
By Greg Hoersten - For The Lima News
This photo of a temperance demonstration in downtown Lima in 1914 shows the gazebo that was once there. What started out as a gazebo for concerts on the square became the Ohio Electric’s rest station, which was condemned in 1920 and to be removed.
Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society
Lima’s Great White Way, the boulevard lighting project, was a heady topic from when the idea first came out. It was getting vehement by the close of 1920. People were concerned about safety.
Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society
Lima detective Willis Kipker, photographed in an unknown year. In a few years, he would be chief.