2/17/2021
Plan for old post office: A vital link to community
The dream for the old post office, shown here next to Cumberland Town Hall, is to turn it into a community resource for residents.
CUMBERLAND – Plans to create a community resource center in the long-vacant former Valley Falls Post Office/Valley Falls Free Library next to Town Hall are centered on an innovative new initiative that would tackle some of the deeper issues many town residents face that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Mayor Jeff Mutter said the ideas surrounding the old building are largely focused on the issues that Community Outreach Coordinator Sarah King has a strong interest in, including services on mental health, homelessness, veteran services, and others.
2/10/2021
Mutter on vaccine: Most 75-year-olds shouldn’t have to wait more than a month
Cumberland EMS personnel Steve Parent, left, and Jay Gomes prepare vaccines in the hallway of Cumberland Manor on Mendon Road on Feb. 4, part of the town’s door-to-door vaccination program at senior housing complexes.
Town completes door-to-door vaccinations in senior housing
CUMBERLAND – Aurise Carden said she was excited to read last Thursday about Cumberland’s plan to get older residents vaccinated. She called the correct phone number last Friday but found the voicemail box was full. She called again on Monday and the box was full again.
2/10/2021
Introducing Pablo, the horse that got away
Hope Fagiano and her horse Pablo were back at home on Doire Road in Cumberland during Sunday’s snowfall after Pablo’s Saturday escape and run through Cumberland.
Owner says she plans to get this escapee a friend
CUMBERLAND – Hope Fagiano’s best guess as to how her beloved old horse Pablo was able to get out for his grand adventure along the streets of Cumberland last Saturday was that he must have somehow unlatched one of his inner barn doors.
The only time Pablo had ever gotten free before was when something was left open, said Fagiano, but that wasn’t the case here.
Adam speaks at City Council
Kirsten Barnhart, DHI Media News Editor Tuesday, February 9, 2021 9:19 AM
VAN WERT – During Monday s Van Wert City Council meeting, Van Wert
Area Economic Development Director Stacy Adam asked Council to consider
preparing legislation regarding two topics she spoke about.
Adam
first spoke about the CHIP (Community Housing Impact and Preservation)
grant. The CHIP grant helps rehabilitate single-family homes that are
owned and occupied by low to moderate-income households.
The cost
to apply for the grant is $10,000. Economic Development manages the
program on behalf of the county, and in past agreements, they have asked
that Council pay half of the application costs if it is not approved.
12/30/2020
Cumberland shows character, care as COVID-19 rages
Organizers Joyce Hindle Koutsogiane, left, and Mike Tusoni attached an American flag to a car when they were preparing for the start of Cumberland’s 94th annual Arnold Mills Fourth of July Parade and Road Race on Saturday, July 4, along Nate Whipple Highway. The traditional parade was replaced with a motorcade along the major roadways in town and a virtual road race. (Breeze File photo by Robert Emerson)
Pandemic impacted every area of life
CUMBERLAND – An unprecedented modern health crisis upended every aspect of life in 2020, from the way Cumberland residents worked and played to the way they learned and gathered socially or for entertainment.