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Potential Hotel at the Masonic Center. Rendering provided by Ascendant Holdings.

The developers of a proposed 220-room, 14-story hotel to be built atop the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center are still working with city officials to secure final approval for their project. The developers are haggling with the citys Historic Preservation Commission and historic preservation staff over the fate of 20 stained-glass windows, none of which are original to the building.

Youre forgiven if youve never noticed the stained glass windows; at least one of the commissioners was in the same boat. Said Commissioner Patti Keating Kahnduring the meeting: when I drive past the building I cannot see stained glass. The building is so dark. Shes right, theyre barely visible because theyre covered by a dark plate glass. Yet, interior photos shown by historic preservation staff member Tim Askin show a number of colorful windows, most notably in a second-floor chapel space.

Ascendant Holdings, led by Eric Nordeen and Matthew Prescott, is looking to remove and relocate the windows as part of their redevelopment of the property at 790 N. Van Buren St.The hotel will be operated byPortland-based boutique operator Provenance Hotels, who has told Ascendant that the windows create an environment that is too dark to be used as food and beverage space or meeting rooms.

Ascendant will need commission approval to remove the windows and display them as art in the hotels interior, as theyve indicated they desire to. Yet the Historic Preservation Commission wouldnt have the authority to compel them to display them once theyve been removed. No one is suggesting Ascendant has any desire to pull a bait-and-switch, but the preservation staff and commission have raised concerns over setting precedent regarding future projects.

Further complicating things, two stained glass experts, including local firm Conrad Schmitt Studios, have examined the windows and, according to Nordeen, deemed them inferior. As Nordeen told the commission both independently concluded [the windows are] locally made, of inferior quality and they dont really have any secondary value. They do have value to the Masons.

Perhaps more germane to the commission than the hard-to-regulate fate of the windows is what Ascendant would replace them with. Matthew Jarosz, who chairs the commission and leads UW-Milwaukee Historic Preservation Institute, held a lengthy back and forth with project architect Ken Gowland about the merits of various window replacement options. The stained glass windows werent builtas entirely new windows, but instead installed inside the existing window frames. The rest of the windows in the building were replaced in 1996 by the masons. Nordeen suggested that replacing the stained glass windows could lead to a building with greater historic integrity.

Ultimately, the commission seemed supportive of finding a solution, but held off on making a decision. The meeting ended with Jarosz telling Nordeen, I think you need to come back and tell us exactly where you want to go with it.

Ascendant and their team, including a partnership of New Jersey-based Kraig Kalashian Architecture & Design and New Orleans-based Metro Studio, must now firm up plans of how they wish to use the windows and what theyll replace them with.

Will the masons find a home for them? Will Ascendant display them within the building, and if so how many? Will they leave any in place? Well know more soon. Should the commission reject Ascendants plans, the developer would retain the right to go to the full Common Council to override the historic commissions decision.

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City officials said they are in talks with individuals who may be interested in revamping the Fairborn Theatre, but the conversation is still in its infancy stages and is still too early to say for certain what the future of the facility could be.

Whitney Vickers | Greene County News The Fairborn Theatre, located on Broad Street, is not currently planned to be demolished or opened back up anytime soon. However, city officials are working to replace a window that was broken by a recent storm.

Whitney Vickers | Greene County News The Fairborn Theatre, located on Broad Street, is not currently planned to be demolished or opened back up anytime soon. However, city officials are working to replace a window that was broken by a recent storm.

FAIRBORN The Fairborn Theatre, located on Broad Street, is not going anywhere anytime soon, according to city officials who said the theatre means as much to them as it does to citizens.

The building is as important to us as it is to residents, Fairborn Community Development Director Michael Gebhart said. Our charter was signed there its huge to us, its huge to city council, its huge to the city manager and to all the employees its an icon Weve all got history there.

No active plans are currently in the works to tear down or revamp the theatre, but city officials said the most ideal situation would include reusing the facility.

That possibility may become a reality in the future, but it is currently too early to say for certain.

We want to see it reused, Gebhart said. Were actively talking to a couple people, but it is in the infancy stage and I dont know (at this time) if anything will pan out but there are no active plans to do anything to that building besides replace the glass window Were going to keep working on trying to get that building reused.

A strong wind that came along from a recent storm took out a window on the facility. Due to the window not being made of tempered glass, a dangerous splintering was created across the window surface, calling city code enforcement employees to remove the shards to eliminate any safety concerns. By the time the glass was removed, another window was ordered to serve as a replacement.

However, the replacement window was broken by the supplier before it ever made it into the window frame. Although it could be fixed as early as this week.

Because that window was so big, our supplier didnt have it in stock, Gebhart said. It came in a week later and they broke it. For the size of the window, it takes every crew member they have [to install it].

City officials said they are in talks with individuals who may be interested in revamping the Fairborn Theatre, but the conversation is still in its infancy stages and is still too early to say for certain what the future of the facility could be.

http://fairborndailyherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/web1_1.jpgCity officials said they are in talks with individuals who may be interested in revamping the Fairborn Theatre, but the conversation is still in its infancy stages and is still too early to say for certain what the future of the facility could be.

Whitney Vickers | Greene County News The Fairborn Theatre, located on Broad Street, is not currently planned to be demolished or opened back up anytime soon. However, city officials are working to replace a window that was broken by a recent storm.

http://fairborndailyherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/web1_2-2.jpgWhitney Vickers | Greene County News The Fairborn Theatre, located on Broad Street, is not currently planned to be demolished or opened back up anytime soon. However, city officials are working to replace a window that was broken by a recent storm.

Whitney Vickers | Greene County News The Fairborn Theatre, located on Broad Street, is not currently planned to be demolished or opened back up anytime soon. However, city officials are working to replace a window that was broken by a recent storm.

http://fairborndailyherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/web1_3-2.jpgWhitney Vickers | Greene County News The Fairborn Theatre, located on Broad Street, is not currently planned to be demolished or opened back up anytime soon. However, city officials are working to replace a window that was broken by a recent storm.

No other active plans in the works

Reach Whitney Vickers at 937-502-4532.

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The alto saxophone Donna Hutson learned to play as a fifth-grader growing up in Sandwich is the same one she uses today.

Now 67, Hutson is an original member of the Indian Valley Community Band (IVCB), which was founded in June 1986 when three Sandwich band directors Joel Hawkinson, Terry Wickwire and Paul Rossok placed a newspaper ad looking to start a band with members from the community. The bands members travel from more than 12 different towns to perform together.

The band has more members than ever. At 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at the Sandwich Opera House, 140 E. Railroad St. in Sandwich, 38 musicians will perform on stage during the bands 31st annual spring concert.

I just love playing in the band, Hutson said. Im one of the bands original members. We sound so good when we all get together, and its always a lot of fun. Its a good group to be a part of.

I guess once youre a band geek, youre always a band geek.

The bands concerts are free, with donations collected at the door for a different local nonprofit organization or group before each concert. Groups and projects that concert revenue has helped in the past include Fox Valley Older Adults Services, Equine Dreams, the Sandwich Lions Clubs Franklin Mall Christmas Project and the Tri-County Kiwanis Clubs Fruit of the Room project.

Proceeds from this years spring concert will benefit the Sandwich Opera House. Chris Roe, the opera houses executive director, said the money will be used for building repairs, including window replacement, painting and historical restoration after water damage.

We always enjoy having the Indian Valley Community Band perform at the opera house, Roe said. I love that theyre all local musicians and that their age range is such a variety. Some havent played since high school, some are in high school. Its always a surprise to hear what music they will perform at the concert. Its always something fun and different.

The band will perform 10 songs of varying genres during the concert. Songs include Offenbachs Ballet Parisien, Strauss Radetzky March, a Spanish paso doble and an arrangement of the Beach Boys greatest hits.

The music we will be playing has a great variety, from more serious pieces, like a German march, to the Beach Boys, said Richard Hart, IVCBs director since 2011.

One of my favorite pieces we will be playing, The Light Eternal, is a memoriam of four World War II U.S. Army chaplains of four different faiths that gave up their lifeboat seats and their lives when their ship was torpedoed.

After a short intermission, a sing-along with the audience will start off the second half of the concert. A punch and cookie reception will be after the concert, allowing the audience the opportunity to meet and socialize with the musicians.

In addition to the spring concert, the band also performs a Christmas concert at the Sandwich Opera House and a summer concert in the park. The summer concert will be 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 16, at James Knights Park, 1001 Latham St. in Sandwich.

The band does not have auditions anyone high school-age or older who plays an instrument is welcome to join the band and play along. All instruments are needed, especially clarinets, percussion and trombones. The band rehearses from 6 to 7:20 p.m. Mondays at Sandwich Middle School, 600 Wells St.

Trumpeter Jean McBride of Yorkville, another of the bands original members, said shes continued to play in the band because of the wonderful people shes met over the years.

Flautist Deb Kell of Sandwich said she feels lucky to have joined the band in 2008.

I didnt play my flute for 35 years, Kell said. I was able to take it out of the closet and play again, even though I was rusty. Im just happy to have music and people to play with.

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PAXTON - Voters werent feeling that generous Monday as they voted against three of the five Proposition 2 questions facing voters in the annual town election.

Voters defeated a Proposition 2 levy limit override question for the Wachusett Regional School District budget, a Proposition 2 debt exclusion question for site plans and initial design of a new Department of Public Works facility, and a Proposition 2 capital expenditure exclusion question for money toward window replacement for the John Bauer Senior Center.

Again rejecting a measure already defeated at last weeks annual town meeting, voters defeated a companion ballot question asking for a Proposition 2 levy limit override for $190,092 to fully fund Paxtons $6,065,107 assessment for the regional schools budget for fiscal 2018. The vote was 173 against and 124 in favor.

Last week, Paxton became the first of the five towns in the school district to reject its share of the budget. At Rutlands annual town meeting on Saturday, voters passed an amended school budget of $2,683,134, short of the school district's request for $3,071,172. Four of the five district towns (which also includes Holden, Princeton and Sterling) have to approve their assessments for the school budget to go forward.

Both the DPW facility and senior center window replacement questions had passed at town meeting, but failed in the election.The DPW question vote was 160-136, while the senior center question lost 168-130. The Proposition 2questions needed voters' approval at both the town meeting and election to move forward.

Voting 1,135 in favor and 161 against, voters did pass a Proposition 2 capital expenditure exclusion for $70,000 toward Town Hall exterior repairs.

With a 155-143 vote, voters also passed a Proposition 2 capital expenditure exclusion for $41,910 for a new Ford Police Interceptor Utility vehicle to replace the Police Department's 2008 Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser.

Both the Town Hall and police cruiser questions also passed at town meeting.

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A man shot to death last month had been with his girlfriend when the two were robbed of a vehicle to settle a debt, according to court documents filed in support of charges in the case.

Neil Allen Alway, 39, and Ashley Lorraine Barry, 31, both transients, appeared in court Monday to face charges in connection to the incident.

Two additional suspects were arrested Monday night. John Michael West, 43, is accused of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery. Ashley L. Wideman, 23, is accused of first-degree kidnapping. Both are expected to appear in court Tuesday.

Alway faces a charge of first-degree murder for the slaying of Raymond C. Brandon. He and Barry both face charges of first-degree robbery and first-degree kidnapping.

A probable cause affidavit filed in the case gives the following account of events:

Allison Fields, who had been dating Brandon for nine months, told police that for the first few weeks of April, she and Brandon had been driving a silver Subaru Forester to a residence on Northeast 172nd Avenue to shower and eat breakfast.

On April 20, shortly after they arrived at the residence, the four suspects came into the room and ordered Fields and Brandon to take off their clothes.

Alway pointed a semi-automatic handgun at both Fields and Brandon before taking Brandon outside while Barry stayed with Fields inside the house.

Fields said she heard what sounded like someone being hit with an object and then Brandon screaming; Fields said she could tell he was frightened and in pain. Then, she told police, she heard a loud gunshot and the screaming stopped.

Alway and the other man, West, then ran back inside and said they all had to leave quickly.

Alway zip-tied Fields hands and led her outside, where Barry broke the drivers side window and unsuccessfully tried to start the Subaru without the keys.

Fields told investigators that Alway wanted to take the Subaru from them to settle Rays debt, the affidavit states.

The four then got into a white Jeep SUV with Fields and drove to the farm on Northeast 119th Street in Vancouver.

Once at the farm, Barry cut Fields zip ties and told Fields not to cry or she would be killed, adding that the only reason she was not dead already was because Barry knew Fields father.

Fields told Alway that her father already had a window to replace the one broken on the Subaru, and he agreed to drive her to her fathers so he could get the window replacement.

Looking for her father, Alway drove Fields to her grandmothers house and found her father outside. Fields ran toward him, and Barry and Alway fled, keeping the Subaru and Fields tablet computer.

On April 25, a Vancouver police officer arrested Alway and Barry on suspicion of possession of a stolen vehicle, a Jeep Wrangler. Alway was in possession of a black .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun and was charged with being a felon in possession of a weapon.

Two days later, Clark County sheriffs deputies were dispatched to 15308 N.E. 172nd Ave., southeast of Hockinson High School, for a report of a body found on the property.

A witness reported that she heard rumors that Brandon had been shot in the shed of a residence and went to the residence and spoke with a man who lived there. The resident denied knowing anything about the incident, but gave the witness permission to search the property. She found Brandons body in the shed and called 911.

The Clark County Medical Examiner identified the victim as Brandon, 34, and classified his death as homicidal violence. He suffered a gunshot wound to his chest.

Both Alway and Barry were interviewed and provided detectives with an account that was fairly similar to Fields account, though Alway told detectives that he was not involved, saying he was on the other side of the yard trying to get his Jeep out of the mud.

Alway told detectives that Brandon and the other man present during the incident were smoking in the backyard when he left. He also said that the other man had been carrying the gun found in Always possessions.

He said he learned about Brandons death from the newspaper.

During Mondays court hearing, Judge Derek Vanderwood set bail for Alway at $2 million and bail for Barry at $250,000. Both are scheduled to be arraigned May 11.

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REHOBOTH Voters at Mondays town meeting will be asked to approve a $26 million budget for the next fiscal year.

That figure represents a 4.89 percent increase over the current budget of $24.8 million.

The bulk of that amount $16.4 million, is designated for the Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School budget. The figure is a 2.1 percent increase over the current fiscal year.

A total of $9 million has been designated for town government expenses a 10.34 percent increase over the current fiscal year.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the high school at 2700 Regional Road, North Dighton.

Voters will also be asked to approve $3.5 million for the costs of paying for window and roof replacement at the Palmer River School and window replacement at the Beckwith School. If the article is approved, there will be a vote on a temporary tax increase to pay for the project at a special town election.

Another article calls for the appropriation of $87,000 for installation of door security systems at Palmer River School, Beckwith Middle School and Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School.

There are also a number of proposed zoning bylaw changes, including a temporary moratorium on the sale and distribution of recreational marijuana.

A copy of the budget and town meeting agenda can be found on the town website at http://www.town.rehoboth.ma.us.

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Visitors of all ages were fascinated by the sights, sounds and speeds of the trains displayed at the Painesville Railroad Museum on May 6.

Model Train Days is an annual two-day event that features about 10 layouts from various train clubs including Lake Erie N-Scale Society of Lake and Geauga counties and Crooked River N Geneers in Cuyahoga County.

Painesville Railroad Museum Vice-President Tom Pescha also showcased one of his own train layouts.

Pescha said Model Train Days is an opportunity for people to get an idea of how to build train layouts, talk to train experts and learn about the Painesville Railroad Museum.

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The Painesville Railroad Museum building, located at 475 Railroad Street, dates back to the late 1800s; and in 1997 the Western Reserve Railroad Association was formed to help save the historic landmark.

The museum recently underwent numerous renovations. The goal was to restore the building to preserve the past.

The restorations included adding two new ADA restrooms, receiving a new IT Station, drywalling, window replacement and adding new chandlers and ceiling fans in the main lobby.

Pescha said he is pleased with the event turnout and the community response to the recent building repairs.

Painesville resident Steve Brothag brought his 10-year-old grandson Hayden Thompson, who was visiting from Salem, Ohio, to the event.

Hayden said it was fun.

Kay Sheridan of Mentor also brought out-of-town guests to the show.

Sheridan said her grandchildren traveled seven hours from Fairfax, Virginia to visit.

One of her grandsons, 13-year-old Jack Sheridan, said the event reminded him of the train that his family used to put around the tree at Christmas time.

The event will continue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 7.

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A Mississippi-based contractor was arrested Friday after telling a deputy he accepted money from a man in Baton Rouge, but spent it elsewhere without completing the work.

Justin Walter Etheridge, 42 of McComb, Mississippi, was accused of accepting $2,800 for window replacement and kitchen cabinet work at a man's home. The victim said not only had the work not been done, but while attempting to rebuild kitchen cabinets, Etheridge had removed the cabinet doors and never returned them.

The man said when he confronted Etheridge about the incomplete work, the contractor told him he had spent the money on things unrelated to the job. An East Baton Rouge Sheriff's deputy questioned Etheridge about the work, and he admitted to spending the money elsewhere, according to a Sheriff's Office report.

Etheridge was scheduled for a meeting April 24at the Sheriff's Office headquarters to go over documentation on where the money was spent, but he did not show up, deputies said.

Etheridge was arrested and booked on counts of misapplication of payments and theft of assets from an aged person. His bail was set at $15,000.

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