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daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
They urged council to help with the search of a location outside of the Great Miami River floodplain, where current Junior Baseball fields were built on donated land at County Road 25A and Eldean Road. One suggested solution was including fields in a city parks and recreation plan that will be updated later this year. Consultants hired by the city are beginning that process.
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1 day ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
The parts distribution business is already among the city’s top employers with 650 workers reported earlier this year. “The Komyo expansion is yet another confirmation of our long-standing and productive relationship with our Japanese companies. It’s why we invest our time and effort in our biennial trade mission,” said Patrick Titterington, city service and safety director.
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3 days ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
“This brings exposure to our area as a travel destination and impacts our local economy and businesses by what is spent throughout the weekend with the festival vendors, at local restaurants, local shops, and hotels,” Stewart said. The festival last year drew more than 100,000, she said. The 2025 Strawberry Festival will include entertainment on two stages as well as past popular events such as the car show on Sunday in Troy Community Park.
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1 week ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
For Paul Wick, president of Troy Junior Baseball, a flood this spring meant numerous evenings over a month at the fields just to prepare one for a game. Approximately 400 youth are playing in the program, fewer than in the past, he said, adding a few are returning after leaving for other programs. They are coming back because they cannot afford to or are tired of traveling elsewhere for their children to play.
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1 week ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
The first phase of the post-fire recovery process is complete. This was the emergency response to the fire including securing the site, cleaning up, demolishing as needed both the burned interior and the later additions to the tavern. That removal of additions exposed some of the original structure’s log walls. Everything that could be salvaged from the museum was removed and taken to another downtown building where it was sorted, photographed and sent to a conservator.
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1 week ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
He said a new operations plan to include a sprinter type ambulance that the city said can “provide similar services to traditional ambulances” changed after the first day in use earlier this month. “The way it was presented to us … changed on day one,” he said, adding the change in his opinion wasn’t for the better. The vehicle was donated to the city by the UVMC Community Benefit Fund. The vehicle cost $110,000 compared to more than $300,000 for a traditional ambulance.
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3 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
The posting by International Association of Firefighters Local 1638 sparked dozens of resident comments and added press statements released by city administrators. Among the changes implemented May 1 with city medic units at Station 11 (downtown area) was introducing a new sprinter type ambulance that includes an Advanced Life Support crew, equipment, supplies and computers. It can provide similar services to traditional ambulances.
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3 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
After 19 hours, a helicopter returned to pick up Norman and 10 others and took them to the safety of a ship. He was 21 at the time. “We didn’t know if he was going to come home alive. It was three weeks before we heard,” Norman’s sister, Donna Beam of Tipp City, recalled. “He’s my big brother and always protected me.”Beam was among those speaking during a Friday surprise ceremony arranged for Norman by county commissioners.
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3 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
“The meaning of the project is that our heaviest-traveled road will be wider, smoother and brighter with eventual new streetlights. A couple of surprises included finding a lot of brick roadway closer to the surface than we originally thought, as well as finding the canal bridge structure underground,” Rhoades said. Remnants of the canal bridge, constructed with riveted girders, was found along the north side of Main Street between Elm and Adams streets near the Kettering Hospital site.
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3 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Nancy Bowman
This purchase follows the city buying the Tipp Plaza properties on the opposite side of I-75 for nearly $7 million earlier this year. These land purchases are part of an effort by the city and its Community Improvement Corporation to redevelop the area along Main Street from Hyatt Street west across I-75 and past County Road 25A.
