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The Columbus Metropolitan Library Board of Trustees recently approved architects for four additional building projects — a continuation of the library’s vigorous aspirational building program. Schooley Caldwell and Evoke Studio was selected to design a new Marion-Franklin Branch at a new site and renovation and expansion of the existing Barnett Branch, an announcement detailed. Bostwick [...]
If you’re preparing to buy a home, you’ve probably been saving up for the down payment and other closing costs, but if that nest egg can only get you through the front door, it may not be enough. Once you own the home, you also own its peeling wallpaper, aging water heater and the carpet [...]
As summer travelers take to the roads, the Franklin County office responsible for ensuring consumers aren’t shortchanged by malfunctioning gas pumps at county filling stations has some good news to share — zero skimmers were found on gas pumps in the county. Skimmers are devices installed by would-be thieves, who illegally harvest credit and debit [...]
Ko Im always thought she would live in New York forever. She knew every corner of Manhattan and had worked hard to build a community of friends. Living in a small apartment, she found her attitude shifting early in the pandemic. After her brother accepted a job in Seattle in the summer of 2020, she [...]
Far fewer Americans said “I do” during the first year of the pandemic when wedding plans were upended, a new report finds. There were 1.7 million weddings in 2020, a drop of 17 percent from the year before and the lowest recorded since 1963, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. The [...]
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Homeowners with condos in the Florida building that collapsed and killed 98 people nearly a year ago, but whose families suffered no loss of life, will share at least $96 million from a court settlement, a judge said this week. That is in addition to the payout of about $1 billion to [...]
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. — Rising seas are encroaching on one of America's most storied military installations, where thousands of recruits are molded into Marines each year amid the salt marshes of South Carolina's Lowcountry region. Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island is particularly vulnerable to flooding, coastal erosion and other impacts of climate change, a [...]
Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Culture Pass program has added a new partner — the Columbus Clippers — making Clippers family passes available at no cost for library customers. Library cardholders can now attend Columbus Clippers’ Sunday home games using the Culture Pass, which can be checked out for free in person at select libraries, similarly to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former director of the Ohio state prison system has emerged as a leading contender to run the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Gary Mohr, who has also worked in the private prison industry, is among those at the top of the [...]
The Columbus Symphony is scheduled to perform at Hocking Hills State Park’s Ash Cave for the first time next month as a fundraiser for the Ohio State Parks Foundation. “The concert will demonstrate that the arts and the beauty of nature really do go hand in hand,” said Mary Mertz, director of the Ohio Department [...]