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Local news briefs — April 16

Edit Ohio 16 Apr 2016
CUYAHOGA FALLS. Cuyahoga River dam exhibit. CUYAHOGA FALLS. The removal of two dams on the Cuyahoga River in the city of Cuyahoga Falls will be featured in an upcoming Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit ... One story within the traveling exhibit will feature the Cuyahoga River and its restoration journey, including the “Dam Cam” video featuring a three-minute time lapse of the dam removal....

Summer of Trump Threatens Tattered Cleveland's Comeback Story

Edit Yahoo Daily News 13 Apr 2016
Cleveland envisions its Republican National Convention in July as an opportunity to show off its re-invented self and bury memories of default, industrial demise and a mayor who accidentally set his hair on fire. Trump’s stunning rise, accompanied by violence at his rallies and his own bellicose remarks, has fueled an expectation of disorder ... The polluted Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, drawing national attention ... Things got worse....

Summit, McKinley incubating at least two eggs in downtown Akron’s falcon nest

Edit Ohio 11 Apr 2016
The male bird is McKinley, who was born in Canton ... The adult birds are Mystic, who hatched in Rocky River, and an unbanded male nicknamed Maurice or Mo ... There is a new female falcon at the nest in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park ... The male bird is Rocky, who hatched in Rocky River ... It will be some time before they are likely to produce eggs at a nest on the Ohio Turnpike bridge over the Cuyahoga River in Boston Township ... ....

Rascal Flatts-backed restaurant set for Cleveland's Flats

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 10 Apr 2016
A Cleveland design-review committee approved exterior plans for the restaurant, which is to be on the ground floor of an apartment building in the development along the Cuyahoga River ... Rascal Flatts will occupy a space facing the river, wedged between the Beerhead Bar & Eatery and a suite of spin-off restaurants tied to Crop Bistro. Site plans show a 3,200-square-foot patio and indoor performance areas ... ....

Stow shopping center owner cited by Ohio EPA for hazardous runoff in basin, ditch, stream

Edit Ohio 06 Apr 2016
A mysterious milky white liquid that is draining from under a Stow shopping plaza’s parking lots is under investigation by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ... The liquid is draining from under the plaza parking lots to a stormwater retention basin that drains via a ditch to nearby Fish Creek, a Cuyahoga River tributary ... The company has hired contractors to correct the leachate problem and to devise a long-term solution ... ....

Old welding shop in Cuyahoga Falls transformed into wide-open work space

Edit Ohio 02 Apr 2016
CUYAHOGA FALLS ... The company, which does market and design work, moved in late February to the building high above the Cuyahoga River ... A small room off to the side will house fitness equipment, and the lounge will open to a patio overlooking the river ... The vision for the space was his, he said, but it was executed by architect David Pelligra of Cuyahoga Falls and general contractor Chris Skoda of Skoda Construction in Highland Heights ... ....

Best #Cityreads of the Week

Edit CityLab 02 Apr 2016
Each day, 30 million gallons of water from the Han River is pumped into the stream that runs through Cheonggyecheon park in downtown Seoul, Korea ... The place is an offshoot of Cuyahoga ... The park’s centerpiece is the resilient Cuyahoga River, once a punch line about environmental ruin after an oil-slicked pile of debris on the water caught fire....

Author Kristin Ohlson to speak on soil health and its impacts on our lives in ...

Edit Ohio 30 Mar 2016
Author Kristin Ohlson will speak on microbes and regenerative agriculture Friday in a Cuyahoga Valley Lyceum lecture ... Her talk will be held in the Happy Days Lodge in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park ... in the Happy Days Lodge in the Cuyahoga Valley park ... at River Styx Park off River Styx Road in Guilford Township ... on the Akron side of the Cuyahoga River....

This Little-Discussed Organizational Problem Could Create Total Chaos at the Republican Convention

Edit New York Magazine 28 Mar 2016
In early June, several hundred paid professionals and a supporting army of volunteers will slowly begin to assemble near the banks of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, with the quadrennial mission of planning and executing a Republican National Convention, scheduled for July 18 to 21, at Quicken Loans Arena, in ... More » ... ....

Ohio EPA OKs dredging of Cleveland harbor if material kept out of Lake Erie

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 27 Mar 2016
Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Cleveland's harbor and the Cuyahoga River to make them safe for shipping traffic ... River and dump it at approved disposal facilities at federal expense....

Ohio EPA clears way for dredging Cleveland harbor, river

Edit Tampa Bay Online 27 Mar 2016
Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Cleveland's harbor and the Cuyahoga River to make them safe for shipping traffic....

Man, 27, still missing after dive teams investigate suspicious object in Cuyahoga River

Edit Ohio 25 Mar 2016
Dive teams searching for a missing man in the Cuyahoga River found only debris Thursday afternoon. Police received a call regarding a suspicious object in the river behind 1237 Weathervane Lane, where La’Ron Harris, 27, went missing in the water a month ago ... 21 after driving his friend’s car into the river....

Ohio authorities looking for missing man search river again

Edit Springfield News-Sun 25 Mar 2016
Authorities continue searching for a man reported missing several weeks after a car he was in went into the Cuyahoga River with a passenger who managed ......
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