Residents Trash Garbage Station
A garbage transfer station that's been proposed near the closed ELDA landfill is — in what should be absolutely no surprise — coming under fire. Winton Hills residents, who just reached a $2 million settlement with ELDA owners, have announced that they will oppose the company's plans for a transfer station during a public hearing…
Diner: Not Just Grandma’s Restaurant Anymore?
Grafton's was my grandparents' hangout when they were grandparents, not Roaring '20s swingers, or whatever they were called back then. I think they found it safe and predictable as well as reasonably priced for folks on a limited income. I imagine them, suitably hatted and suited, motoring over in their machine to the Silverton landmark,…
Suburbanality
Like Urban Legends, Suburban Legends are the product of a little fact, a collective, unspoken fear and some accumulating flourishes. The difference is, Suburban Legends more often involve a car, a mall and/or white people. Here are three legends currently circulating: The Discounted Life. A married couple, both thirtysomething professionals, is in the habit of…
News: Mistaken Identity
Police say Lance Love is an expert at blending in. Jeffrey VanSluys never thought he looked like a fugitive. His professional hair stylist even told him that he looked like an average person. Maybe that is why police didn't immediately recognize the mistake when someone called police to report that murder suspect Lance Love…
Cover Story: I Lost ‘It’ at the Drive-In
Jymi Bolden The summer I snuck into the Pike 27 drive-in in Alexandria, Ky., America was in a major funk. Inflation was sky high, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford slugged it out for the White House, and Watergate played out repeatedly, thanks to All the President's Men. The first modern presidential scandal spawned the…
Cover Story: All Fired Up
Jymi Bolden While recently cleaning out a closet, I came across some of the clay art projects I made in high school. "Why don't I throw them away?," I wondered. "They're just collecting dust and taking up space." But after all the time and effort I put into them, I couldn't bring myself to…
News: Leading the Heat
Despite rumors, FOP President Keith Fangman says he would "no more run for … sheriff than the man in the moon." Hot. Heated. Flustered. All describe Keith Fangman or the reactions he's been getting in what many see as his fight against injustices, inaccurate perceptions and efforts — deliberate and incidental — to divide…
Danger Down the Drain?
It's a fairly typical progression: Wait until your income can sustain it, then buy a house in a good neighborhood with the type of schools you want to send your children to. Move in, redecorate, spend every extra minute you have getting things just the way you want them. And just when you think you're…
Re: How and Why We Are Stupid, Part 2
When I was 9, my dad bought me my first gun. A pump action BB rifle. Not what most would consider a deadly weapon, but good for instruction on target shooting. By high school, I had learned to duck hunt with my dad and others. By then, I had more than a healthy respect for…
