Month: August 2022

Add in seasoned performers like keyboardist Bobby Floyd, who has played with Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra, bluesman Marquise Knox of St. Louis and Robert Mason and it’s a chance to discover and celebrate.

“Pitzarelli is a $65 ticket in most cities and you can see him here for free. You can thank the Kiwanis for stepping up for that,” said Stoll.

Springfield’s own John Legend and several businesses are helping sponsor the event.

A graduate of North High School who works for the Jazz at Lincoln Center education program in New York City, Stoll helped revive local interest in jazz by bringing other talented musicians for a program called the Holiday Jazz Stomp in 2017 and 2018.

Stoll confessed he thought that first show would draw 50-75 people but packed the house at United Senior Services, which he said speaks to this music being multi-generational.

In 2019,

» Hyde Li was raised in Huaihua in the Hunan Province of China. He came to America alone – as a then 5-foot, 100-pound exchange student carrying a gigantic backpack – and spent his senior year with a host family in Gulfport, Mississippi. After that, he got his undergrad degree at the University of Alabama and completed grad school at the University of Dayton. Now – at 29 and 5-foot-2 – and an engineer at Fuyao Glass America in Moraine.

» Grace Ashworth also was born in China, but was “abandoned” in an orphanage before being adopted by an American family at age one. She went to high school in Bethesda, Maryland, outside of Washington, DC, and played lacrosse and volleyball. She got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Ohio University – graduated with magna cum laude honors – and now, at age 24, is a graphic design artist

“It was kind of odd to me that we expressed these concerns in executive session on Tuesday and then on Friday, we all get an email from (Smith) responding to all the concerns we had,” Gore said.

Gore said sharing any information discussed during executive session undermines the significance of discretion within these meetings.

“We all have a belief that what we’re saying is confidential,” he said, adding that the disclosure could be considered a violation of the Open Meetings Act. “I’m very disappointed that Mr. Lyons violated executive session and went behind the backs of council to speak to a candidate, which in turn may have tainted the entire process of hiring a city manager.”

Lyons denied the accusations of breeching executive session privilege and said discussions of these concerns occurred outside of a private session.

“It’s not covered by executive session privilege unless it happens in executive session,”

SIDNEY – James Douglas Rayl, 22, of Sydney, Ohio, died Sunday, July 31, 2022.

He was born Feb. 25, 2000, in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Nancy and Mark Conatser, of Sidney, and Scott Rayl, of Taylorsville, Kentucky.

He is survived by his siblings, Jessica (Justin) Colbert, of Shelbyville, Kentucky, Jordan Rayl and Jayden Conatser, both of Sidney Ohio, and Scott Rayl Jr. and Chelsea Rayl, of Santa Ana California.

He is survived by a very large extended family of many aunts uncles and cousins ​​and his paw paw, Douglas Porter, his grandma, Linda Rayl, and his grandma Laverna Conatser.

He was preceded in death by his maw maw, Janet Porter, his grandpa, James Rayl, and his grandpa, James Conatser.

James was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and lived in Taylorsville, Kentucky, until he was eight years old. He graduated from Fairlawn High School and Upper Valley Career Center in 2018.

“The food trucks will be on site up to seven days at a time and will come and go,” City Manager Jonathan Westendorf said. “The support has been overwhelming. Once people see this in operation, it’s going to grow more.”

Westendorf said the vacant house was purchased in 2018 for $18,000. He said the initial goal was to renovate the building into a retail storefront. However, the project was put on hold in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After a walkthrough of the house in 2021, city officials determined due to the building’s state of disrepair and multiple building additions that had been done, the best option was demolition, which cost about $15,000.

The project was discussed by Franklin City Council during its annual planning session last winter.

“Shortly after, city staff started exploring the idea of ​​using the space to install a food truck pad. This

WESTBOROUGH — Vacant for nearly five years, the former Regal Cinemas building on Route 9 appears to have multiple options for its future.

Town officials put out a request for proposals on Monday, and they received four bids from three prospective buyers, with each intending to do something different with the former cinema space.

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The building, at 231 Turnpike Road in the Stagecoach Plaza, was acquired by the town earlier this year after the previous owner failed to keep up with tax payments. Regal Cinemas has been leasing the space since 1997.

The largest bids, by far, came from Atlanta-based PulteGroup Inc., one of the largest homebuilders in the country. It submitted two bids — one for $7.94 million and another for $6.5 million — to demolish the cinema building and construct 108 condominiums, which would not be age-restricted.

PulteGroup

CALEB ANDERSON