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7 7' TV 7 VTVVV V' 7 TTTTT7' r1 TT F'V Tomorrow: Talking traffic Beechmont Avenue merchants speak out about a consultant's proposal to ease traffic congestion along the busy thoroughfare. SUBURBSEAST News tips: Editor Nancy Berlier 768-8395, Fax 768-8340 THE Cincinnati Enquirer Covering Hamilton County east of 1-75 and western Clermont County Thursday, May 18, 1995 C3 YOUR TOWN Sycamore development D-aheatf sete a But residents of nearby subdivision will have a say in plans for project i BY WALT SCHAEFER The Cincinnati Enquirer SYCAMORE TOWNSHIP The township planning and zoning commission has approved development of the community's last large tract of open land, with a stipulation that the development complement a neighboring subdivision. The commission this week approved a Ryland Homes development on lOl'A acres, formerly Hut-tenbauer Farms. It sits north of Kemper Road between Solzman Road on the west and Snider Road on the east, township Adminis sycamore TWP. if 7 Proposed I i development I sciQoLllll site 5 jf I Area detailed m4 Cincinnati-, a Scale in miles KENTUCKY-" II ii ill i The Cincinnati EnquirerR.

Cosby i -4 1 SWWV? 1 i trator Tim Shearer said. The proposed development abuts the Sterling Run Farms subdivision to the north. Sterling Run Farms is site of the 1993 Homera-ma a showcase of upscale homes constructed by area home builders. Shearer said the zoning commission approval is contingent upon an agreement with Sterling Run Farms residents. "They are concerned that the development be appropriate for Wff I their subdivision that new units be of proper scale to fit in with their subdivision," Shearer said.

Plans call for the subdivisions to be separated by a high earthen berm, he said. Ryland intends to "tier" the development, with $350,000 homes next to Sterling Run Farms, ranging to $150,000 townhouses (Please see SYCAMORE, Page C5) jk. -is Land move OK'd into Montgomery Science at the zoo Scientists at the Cincinnati Zoo's Center for Reproduction of Endangered Wildlife were shadowed Wednesday by about 30 Tristate students participating in an all-girls science camp. The camp exposes fifth- through eighth-graders to jobs at the zoo, Drake Planetarium, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, General Electric and Procter Gamble. Symmes auto tags to cost $5 more SYMMES TOWNSHIP Residents will be paying $5 more on their auto tags beginning next year, increasing the fee to $41.25.

Trustees, in a 2-1 vote, passed a resolution Tuesday to add the tax to generate about $50,000 for repair, maintenance and construction of township roads. Trustee Mike Burroughs opposed the measure. The township now spends about $200,000 annually on road Residents have 30 days to object to the tax in a ballot referendum. Celebration of frontier life MONTGOMERY Pioneer Park on Deerfield Road will come alive with frontier life to celebrate the city's bicentennial, 9 a.m. to dusk Saturday and 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m. Sunday. The event includes pioneer cooking, old-time games, woodworking, storytelling, ax and tomahawk throwing and musket demonstrations. A frontier church service will begin at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

Admission is free. For information, call 793-0514. Sponsors are the Montgomery Assembly of God Church and the city Bicentennial Commission. St. Gertrude marks 60 years MADEIRA St.

Gertrude School, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, will have an alumni reception and open house 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and an alumni dance from 8 p.m. to midnight. School Principal Sister Marian said 18 nuns all former teachers will be guests. The Dominican Sisters from Nashville, have taught at the school all 60 years.

The pastors are Dominican priests based in New York. will be a 12:30 p.m. Mass on Sunday to honor the sisters and former and present teachers. Mother Christine Born of the Dominican Sisters of Nashville Will address the group. IT.

The weekend activities will end with the annual May Procession to honor the Virgin Mary at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. DAYBOOK Government schools Anderson Township: Trustees, 7:30 p.m., 7954 Beechmont Ave. Evanston: Community council, 7:30 p.m., 3204 Woodburn Ave. Madisonville: Community council, 7 p.m., 4324 Homer Ave.

Milford: School board, 7:30 p.m., Milford High chool cafeteria, 1 Eagles Way. i Silverton: City council, 8 p.m., 6860 Plainfield Road. St Bernard: City council, 8 p.m. 110 Washington Ave. Sycamore Township: Trustees, 7 p.m., 8540 Kenwood Road.

Community events 1 Plotting a course: The University of Cincinnati's Clermont College in Batavia is accepting priority registration for summer classes. Summer quarter is June 19 through Aug. 31. Call 732-5200. Summer camp: Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development has summer camps in horse care, career exploration and computers.

For students in grades 3-10. Call 771-8840 for information. HOW TO REACH US Technecenter Drive, Suite 206, Milford 45150 Telephone 576-1800 Fax 576-1173 Staff Directory David Hofmeister 576-1800 Assistant Suburban Editor. Brenda J. Breaux 768-8375 Covers Milford, Miami Township and Union Township, Clermont County.

Kathleen Hillenmeyer 860-7117 Covers Princeton and St. Bernard-Elmwood Place public and private schools. Steve Hoffman 733-1984 Covers suburban police. Julie Irwin 768-8379. Suburban general assignment reporter.

Mary Jennings 576-1800 Covers Clermont County government and courts. Sheila McLaughlin 576-1800 Covers Anderson Township, Blue Ash, Fairfax, Love-land, Mariemont, Montgomery, Newtown, Norwood, Symmes Township, Terrace Park. Fri Boeder 576-1800 Birth notices, government and school board calendars and listings. Walt Schaefer 860-7109 Covers Arlington Heights, Golf Manor and St. Bernard.

Janet C. Wetzel Covers Amberley Village, Deer Park, Evendale, Indian Hill, Madeira, Reading, Sharonville, Silverton and Sycamore Township. Christine Wolff 576-1800 Covers schools in Deer Park, Forest Hills, Indian Hill, Loveland, Madeira, Mariemont, Milford, Norwood, Reading, Sycamore and West Clermont. 8 Symmes may take annexation to court by sheila Mclaughlin The Cincinnati Enquirer SYMMES TOWNSHIP Hamilton County commissioners approved an annexation request Wednesday that would move residents of Acrewood subdivision and the area's largest Roman Catholic parish, Good Shepherd, into Montgomery. But the tug of war over the 40-acre area along Montgomery's northern border might not be over.

Symmes trustees said they will decide within 60 days whether to fight the matter in court. That has at least one Acrewood resident unnerved. "If we're caught up in court, I don't think I'm relieved yet," said Tom Graulty. "Symmes' trying to fight it is just more of their political games, and we're just getting caught up in the politics of all; this." Trustee Mike Page criticized, the commissioners' decision, say- ing he favors taking the case to court. He thinks commissioners dis-; missed the township's contention; that fire protection for the neighborhood would be inadequate if Montgomery took over the subdi-! vision.

1 "It's questionable whether; Montgomery could adequately cover a small incident, much less a major incident such as Good Shep-', herd," Page said. "We owe it to the residents who were not in! favor of the annexation to pursue this." Thirty of 42 landowners signed the petition to annex. Residents (Please see LAND, Page C5) TOP: Crystal Pomer of Holy Family School in Covington uses tweezers to remove a specimen of English ivy from a paper punch. ABOVE: Some of the students from 15 Tristate schools gather in one of the labs at Cincinnati Zoo's Center for Reproduction of Endangered Wildlife on Wednesday. RIGHT: Princeton Junior High student Andrea Andrews checks out a vial containing English ivy.

The Cincinnati EnquirerMichael E. Keating i Student asks Sycamore board for spot on cheerleading squad situation," Glassman said. "If it takes Child on bus, motorist hurt Miami school group on board The Cincinnati Enquirer MIAMI TOWNSHIP A car and a Milford school bus collided Wednesday on a curve on Wolfpen-Pleasant Hill Road, leaving a child and the driver of the car with minor injuries. The bus was traveling north about 2 p.m., loaded with 59 pupils and parents returning to Miami Elementary School from a field trip, said Assistant Chief Don Mack, with Miami Township Fire Department. A Honda Accord driven by Patricia Calton of Batavia was southbound near Kimberly Lane and crossed the center line, striking the front of the bus.

Trooper Richard Hollis of the Ohio State Highway Patrol charged Calton with failure to control her vehicle. Calton was in stable condition Wednesday evening at Bethesda North Hospital. The child, whose name was not released, was treated at the hospital and released. School today is at a standstill," said Karen McNeely, a parent of a junior varsity cheerleader. It is not "just a cheerleading problem," said Jane Caccamo, a Sycamore parent.

"Kids are saying, 'If you don't make it, just have your mom go to the board and have them put you Caccamo said. Michael Glassman, Ami's father, told board members he had encouraged his daughter "to accept the outcome, i We taught her to live by the rules," he said. "But then the playing field changed there were no longer eight cheerleaders there were 10, by board action," Michael Glassman said. "The new rules were arbitrary, and I couldn't explain to her why the rules changed." In other action, the board: Agreed to charge students $10 per quarter next fall and $15 per quarter in 1996-97 for parking passes, to pay for a new 105-space student parking lot. Accepted a $10,000 donation from the Montgomery Woman's ClubTown Hall Lecture Series to replace the seating in the Sycamore Junior High School auditorium.

BY CHRISTINE WOLFF The Cincinnati Enquirer BLUE ASH A high-school cheer-leading squad which the Sycamore school board expanded this spring to include two more students should make room for one more, one teen and her parents told board members Wednesday. The request was the latest fallout from a board decision that has sparked controversy at Sycamore High School. Two cheerleading coaches have resigned in the aftermath, the board was told Wednesday. Ami Glassman, 16, a sophomore at Sycamore, asked board members to allow her to be a varsity cheerleader in the fall. A cheerleader for eight years, Glassman tried out in March with 11 girls for the squad's eight positions.

But she was not chosen. She'd accepted that, Glassman said, until the board voted in May to enlarge the squad and allow two girls to cheer who also had not been picked. "The situation with the varsity squad has put me in a very difficult the board's vote to put me on the squad (then that's what I'm asking)." The board took no action Wednesday on Glassman's request. Board President Bob Mills said the board likely will discuss it at its next meeting in two weeks. The school board doesn't usually decide who will be cheerleaders, but it is the final authority when disputes have been passed through the administrative ranks, Superintendent Bruce Armstrong said.

Armstrong has recommended against adding Glassman to the squad. Board members said Wednesday they enlarged the squad to allow one student to cheer a senior whose tryout score was close to the cut-off level. The 10th position was added because another girl had earned an identical score. Speakers Wednesday asked the board to put Glassman on the squad but also suggested that the tryout process be revamped. "Cheerleading at Sycamore High Ifs time to make your own Ji UnmO An through life there are some Importance of a Will decisions only you can make.

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