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Cincinnati Children’s Liberty Campus is slated to open in Liberty Twp. on Aug. 11. (It can be seen on the south side of Interstate 75 at the Hamilton/Michael Fox Highway exit.) The facility will conduct an open house on Aug. 2. Butler and Warren county residents are invited to tour the place then.
Click here for a photo tour and other stories about the new medical center coming to our area.
Saks Fifth Avenue recently announced it will be part of the Cincinnati Premium Outlets being built in Monroe and will open in Aug. of 2009. The store will be Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, featuring a variety of accessories including fine jewelry, sunglasses, shoes and handbags as well as clothes for men and women, according to the president of Off 5th, Robert Wallstrom.
“We are appealing to customers who are seeking the best brands and fashion at a value price or as we like to say, those seeking Saks style at outlet prices,” he said.
Wallstrom said for a store of this size, Saks normally hires a staff of 35-50 employees.
Read more about this story in the July 24 edition of the Monroe Pulse-Journal.
Click here to see photos from last weekend’s “Light Up the Sky” Independence Day celebration in Monroe.
In a story that will publish in the July 10 issue of the Monroe Pulse-Journal, Reporter Denise Wilson talks to the Monroe school district’s treasurer Kelley Thorpe about levies that will drop off in upcoming years. Here is an excerpt from the story:
The Monroe Local Schools Board of Education has been weighing its options to determine what steps it needs to take to replace three emergency operating levies due to expire in 2010 and 2011, and to offset projected future budget deficits.
The three levies that raise $1.5 million, $1.1 million and $930,000, annually are used to fund operating expenses such as utilities, books and teachers salaries, said Kelley Thorpe, district treasurer. The five-year levies were first approved in 2005 and 2006, Thorpe said.
“We know we’ve got these levies that are coming off in those two years and that’s a substantial amount of money for us,” she said.
“We also know that expenses — teacher salaries, health insurance, gas, money to buy food and books — have gone up so much, and with the loss of open enrollment income, just renewing those three levies is not enough money. We need additional money.”
Thorpe said if the $1.5 million levy — due to expire in 2010 — is not renewed by the district by that year, it would face a projected budget deficit of $1.3 million.
Click here for more on the issue.
By Denise Wilson
Staff Writer
Monroe Local Schools Superintendent Elizabeth Lolli recently was named the winner of the Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award during the Buckeye Association of School Administrators third annual Women’s Conference in Columbus.
Lolli was one of three finalists nominated for the inaugural award that is presented to a female administrator who has demonstrated outstanding educational leadership in making significant contributions to educational administration in a school district, education service center or educational institution.
Read more about this in Thursday’s Monroe Pulse-Journal.
So, there won’t be any alcohol permitted at this year’s Light Up the Sky event in Monroe July 4-5. We know you’ll go anyway. Right? What are your thoughts? Should they have allowed beer sales?
Families of Monroe were recently invited to attend a showing of “Bee Movie” (rated G). The event took place Friday, June 20 at the Monroe Community Park. Our photographer captured the scene and found that plenty went. Did you go? How was the experience?
Staff photo by Pat Auckerman
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