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Key-Ads takes billboards digital for growth
The advertising market divides and subdivides with each new technology from DVRs to satellite radios, but one of the oldest of them all — the billboard — is evolving into the digital world at Key-Ads Inc. in downtown Dayton. The firm, owned and operated by Nicholas L. Keyes and his ...
Dayton International Airport will conduct emergency drill Monday
An emergency exercise will be held at Dayton International Airport on Monday as part of the airport’s emergency operations plan, officials said.Commercial operations will not be affected by the drill. The drill is required every three years by the Federal Aviation Administration and will be a full-scale functional exercise with ...
Dayton air fares lower than at Cincy, Columbus
Air fares at Dayton International Airport were on average lower late last year than those found at the major airports that serve Columbus and Cincinnati, according to government data released Monday. At Dayton International Airport, the average fare was unchanged at $362 in fourth quarter 2012 from fourth quarter 2011. ...
Miami Valley ‘went nuts’ to reforest MetroParks
Dayton-area residents went nuts. They collected so many with such zeal that Five Rivers MetroParks has buckets of viable tree seeds that have been used to reforest park lands. The “Go Nuts for MetroParks” program launched last year has helped power the largest reforestation campaign in MetroParks history, said Dave ...
Impatiens disease hits garden season
Rethink the popular Mother’s Day gift of impatiens. The traditional variety of the annual shade plant is being ravaged by a downy mildew that’s shown up from the east coast to the Midwest and Ontario. As it spreads, the mildew leaves its trademark grey downy fuzz on the underside of ...
Area inventors selected for hall of fame
Two area men who invented a power generator used by robot space exploration vehicles will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame today. John Birden and Ken Jordan spent their careers at the Monsanto Mound Laboratory in Miamisburg where their groundbreaking work was conducted. Birden, who passed away ...
Need $1,250? Bounty placed on Ohio’s oldest refrigerator
Search the shed, the barn, the basement and the garage.There’s a bounty on Ohio’s oldest refrigerator, but the appliance must be alive, not dead, when you turn it in.Dayton Power & Light announced Tuesday that it’s joining utilities around Ohio in offering a $1,250 bounty for the state’s oldest, but ...
New online business tool helps industry find locations in Dayton
The city of Dayton said Monday it has launched a new online site to help businesses find property as well as info for growth and relocation.The Office of Economic Development said the site offers technical data such as wage, tax and demographic information. The property search tool allows businesses to ...
Region’s largest solar power array unveiled
What is now the largest solar power array in Southwestern Ohio should provide between 10 to 100 percent of the power needs of Cedarville University depending on the energy demands of any particular day, officials said at a Friday afternoon dedication. The 2.15 megawatt array on 10 acres on the ...
Dayton man killed in Rahn Road crash
A male was killed in a single-vehicle accident on East Rahn Road near Applecreek Road that left the vehicle in a ditch alongside a pedestrian-bike trail.The accident occurred at about 7:15 p.m. Thursday when the passenger vehicle, on a curvy section of Rahn, veered right and hit a tree very ...
Rebuilding project undeway Saturday in Dayton
Rebuilding Together Dayton, the long-running annual home rehab project, will deploy 1,000 volunteers Saturday to provide $300,000 in free home repainting, roof repairs and other needed fix-ups. The volunteers from local companies, universities, churches and service organizations will repair 20 homes in Dayton. Typically, the homes are owned by low-income ...
Portman pushes new law for workforce training
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican, has teamed up with Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado to introduce legislation Portman said will make federal job training programs more responsive and efficient.Portman said supporters include the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association, the Ohio Association of Community Colleges, Ohio Association for Career and Technical ...
Coalition researching manufacturing initiative
The Dayton Development Coalition is researching a new White House initiative that would assist economically hard-hit communities rebuild their manufacturing bases and lure jobs back to the U.S. from overseas. The Investing in Manufacturing Communities’ Partnership, announced last week by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, would award up ...
CityWide awarded $20M in tax credits for economic development
The city of Dayton’s economic development non-profit, CityWide Development Corporation, has received a $20 million allocation from the U.S. Treasury to sell tax credits. Selling the credits to investors should raise about 40 percent of that amount to fund projects in economically distressed parts of a nine-county region, CityWide said. ...
Home heating bills at decade lows
It hasn’t been this inexpensive to heat your home in a long time, Vectren Corporation said Wednesday.The natural gas provider said that it has calculated that the average customer paid $60 to nearly $70 per month in home heating costs during the 2012-2013 heating season.The bills represent a decade low ...
No delays at region’s airports reported amid federal furlough days
No delays of departing flights were reported Monday at Dayton International Airport or Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Aiport amid scattered reports of delays at East Coast airports related to the furloughs of federal employees. As of 6 a.m. Monday, the Dayton had handled 1,200 passengers, said Director of Aviation Terry Slaybaugh. Airport ...
New shop joins e-bike wave
A new business only a few feet from the Brown Street bicycle lane has joined the growing market for e-bikes, a new wave of lightweight and emission-free rides that plug into common household electric outlets and carry riders up to 40 miles on a charge.Boogie’s Green Machines, 1120 Brown St. ...
Pieces of local architectural history to go on sale
Piles of limestone steps and landscape stones, rows of structural lumber, iron work and elaborate oak interior trim are on display in anticipation of Saturday’s sale of building materials reclaimed from local homes. The Architectural Reuse Store in a warehouse at 280 N. Findlay St., is the work of James ...
State-paid West Nile virus program cut
A state program to give advance warnings of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus will be discontinued and local health departments will have to pick up the tab, the Ohio Health Department said in a memo distributed to local health officials late last week. The Zoonotic Disease Program at a state ...
Area ground moisture good as planting season starts
Following last year’s record heat and menacing drought, the Miami Valley region is headed into the growing season in reasonably good shape to endure another dry spell if it arrives. While rainfall for the area year to date is 1.6 inches below normal as of Friday, about two inches of ...
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