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Left to right: Second-grade students Ry DâEttore, Reagan Slaubaugh and Logan Husk kick a soccer ball at Harmar Elementary School in view of the blighted public nuisances at 115-117 Gilman Ave. in Marietta on Monday. (Photo by Janelle Patterson)
Two weeks to the day from the court declaration of blight and public nuisance, 115-117 Gilman Ave. still loomed in the overcast background of Harmar Elementary play Monday.
“We talk about that place being haunted and if there’s a bad guy there or something,” said Reagan Slaubaugh, 8, of Marietta, as she kicked a soccer ball with fellow second-grade students in the grass of the primary school.
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115-117 Gilman Ave. in Marietta have been declared by the Washington County Common Pleas Court to be both a blight and public nuisance as defined by Ohio law.
Deadlines and timelines are still drawing scrutiny in Marietta following a court declaration of blight and a public nuisance on Gilman Avenue.
But the court’s deadline for the city law director to return a journal entry was not met Monday, nor each subsequent day through Wednesday.
“I talked with Judge (John) Halliday’s secretary today and it will be ready for him to review Monday morning,” reported Marietta City Law Director Paul Bertram, after being questioned concerning the delayed filing.
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