The Ohio House Transportation Committee has unanimously passed House Bill 350, which will dedicate a portion of state Route 44 between Mentor Avenue and Prouty Road as “Lance Corporal Austin B. Schwenk Memorial Highway.” The vote was recently announced by state Reps. Jamie Callender, R-Concord Township, and Daniel Troy, D-Willowick. Born in Onslow County, North […]
The Ohio Department of Transportation has scheduled multiple bridge projects that are expected to impact traffic patterns along freeways in central Lake County over the next year. The agency closed the Mantle Road bridge over state Route 2 in Painesville Township on April 22 for a complete bridge replacement, said ODOT District 12 Public Information […]
Painesville Township officials are considering a change to the community’s zoning resolution that would allow individual single-family lots in one of its multi-family housing districts. Township Planning and Zoning Director Harley DeLeon said at the township’s April zoning commission meeting that a developer needs the changes to build individually-owned “fee simple” townhouse lots on land […]
In Lake County, debate is surrounding the Local Government Fund, a sum of money from the state that is distributed to all communities in the county. According to Wickliffe Mayor Joe Sakacs, Lake County townships are requesting a new formula as they feel they should receive more money. “If that were to be the case, […]