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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Ripon may ban heavy rec use in riparian habitat Oak Grove is an untouched riparian natural habitat with walking and biking trails. It s there that the City of Ripon was asked about developing a disc golf course
A disc golf course at Oak Grove Park?
For those in the know, that’s the 55 acres of undeveloped land near Stockton Avenue between the Diamond Pet Food plant and the Stanislaus River.
Not too long ago, the City of Ripon received a request about the possibility of developing a disc golf course.
Ohio makes big leaps forward on criminal justice changes Laura Bischoff
Advocates for criminal justice reforms scored multiple wins in the closing weeks of 2020 that they say will give thousands of Ohioans a second chance.
Gov. Mike DeWine signed half a dozen bills into laws that will take effect later this year. The potential impacts are sweeping.
Incarcerated pregnant women will no longer be shackled to hospital beds as they deliver their babies. Poor people will be able to perform community service as a way to get their driver’s licenses back instead of paying huge fees. Ohioans who made mistakes will have an easier time getting professional licenses to advance their careers. People suffering from serious mental illnesses at the time of the crime will not be executed. Teens who commit terrible crimes will serve their time but will still have the hope of making parole someday.
Details on Ohio s new ban of juve LWOP and the broader national landscape
As mentioned in this recent post, Ohio recently enacted a new law largely banning life without parole sentences for juveniles. Daniel Nichanian has this new piece at
The Appeal: Political Report about the law and the national develops in this space. I recommend the whole piece, and here are excerpts (with links and the graphic from the original):
Ohio is expanding access to parole hearings for people who have been incarcerated ever since they were children. It will no longer sentence minors to life without the possibility of parole, and it will significantly curtail sentences that effectively amount to the same.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Ripon adopts increases for sewer, solid waste & water for next 5 years
The City of Ripon residents can expect an increase of municipal utility rates over the next five years.
Any effort to protest the hike in services to water, garbage and sewer fell way short of the required majority vote (50 percent plus one) as specified under Proposition 218.
At Tuesday s Ripon City Council meeting, City Clerk Lisa Roos reported the number of protest ballots at less than 200.
Under Prop 218 the state constitutional amendment which protects taxpayers by limiting the methods that local governments can create or increase taxes, fees or charges without their consent 2,488 votes were needed to carry out the protest.
Mother of murder victim advocated for new parole changes
Matthew Wood
and last updated 2021-01-11 18:01:21-05
CINCINNATI â A bill that will change Ohio s parole options, signed by Governor Mike DeWine on Saturday, was advocated for by a local mother whose son was murdered in South Cumminsville in 2015.
Suliman Abdul-Mutakallim was walking home with food for his family in June, 2015, when he was shot dead and robbed. When three assailants walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head, they didn t even say stick em up. They just shot him, said Rukiye Abdul-Mutakallim, Suliman s mother.