South Park has been lucky. For at least the last 20 years, we’ve had a “Community Based Police Officer” or two- paid for by the good folks at Premier Health Partners/Miami Valley Hospital. Since we’re a Historic District, and they can’t just bulldoze South Park- they figured they better make sure it’s safe, so their Read More
I try to keep all the events posted for people at www.electesrati.com/events, as far as I know, I’m the only one who does this, and certainly the only one who videotapes every event and posts them to youtube. Tomorrow night we have the UpDayton forum at Wiley’s Comedy Club. Trust me, being able to drink Read More
One of my cottages needs painting. The city has written me up. It’s scraped to the bare wood- and needs a final sanding, washing and then priming with a good oil based primer and then a premium latex top coat. Most people wouldn’t scrape it to bare wood, but, that’s the only way to do Read More
It was probably around 1995 or so. Bill Rain and David Williams had just finished the Lofts of St. Clair, a conversion of the butt-ugly Pinsky Produce building on St. Clair. The aluminum siding had been torn off to expose a beautiful brick building. It had color- and a roof garden. They’d shoved probably one Read More
I’ve been the keeper of the keys to the gates to Woodland Cemetery Wyoming Street for about a year. Now, I have keys to the Waldo Street off Wayne Avenue entrance gate. If you live along Wayne and would like access to one of Dayton’s best walking tracks, please stop by my office, The Next Read More
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