Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) articles from October 2006

Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) archives from October 2006

Prices stable, houses selling, listings swelling.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Kristin McAllister Oct. 3--DAYTON -- The Dayton area is holding its own as the residential real estate market nationally shifts and becomes more of a buyer's market. "Our numbers of closings are right in line with last year,"...

UD to be home to Air Force's ladar -- yes, ladar -- center.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Oct. 3--DAYTON -- The University of Dayton will be host to a new institute for electronic sensor technology that's expected to draw technical talent from across the country. The Air Force Research Laboratory...

Phone companies want freedom to raise fees.
October 3, 2006... Byline: John Nolan Oct. 3--Telephone companies which provide land-line service in the Dayton, Cincinnati and Hamilton markets are requesting state permission to raise rates at will for basic telephone service and basic Caller ID. ...

Pay hike urged for Dayton mayor, commissioners.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Joanne Huist Smith Oct. 4--DAYTON -- Dayton needs to increase the compensation for its mayor and city commissioners if it to wants to continue attracting quality candidates to run for office. That's the reasoning behind a...

Labor talks, cash crunch hit city schools.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Scott Elliott Oct. 4--The quickly worsening financial picture for Dayton Public Schools could stir labor unrest as the district looks toward a critical levy vote expected in May. A two-year contract with teachers expired June...

Local businesswoman honored by Gov. Taft.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Oct. 4--BEAVERCREEK -- BTAS Inc. President and CEO Angela Fronista is one of five women business owners Gov. Bob Taft recognized last week with the Governor's Awards for Women's Excellence in Enterprise for 2006....

Macau firm gives Teradata contract.
October 8, 2006... Oct. 8--DAYTON -- Companhia de Telecomunicacoes de Macau, which provides telecommunications services in the Chinese territory of Macau, has chosen Teradata to provide an electronic data warehouse system for the company. The system is being...

Standard Register's product bundled with print service.
October 8, 2006... Oct. 8--DAYTON -- Standard Register Co. said its SMARTworks enterprise document services product will be included in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s managed print services offering for customers. SMARTworks provides customers with software that can...

New members join daytaOhio.
October 8, 2006... Oct. 8--DAYTON -- Three new members have joined daytaOhio, the nonprofit Ohio Wright Center for Data's board of directors announced. The new members are Barco Inc. of Xenia, a display technology supplier; LUCRUM Inc. of Cincinnati, a...

Cox Ohio Publishing announces key editorial postings.(Editorial)
October 8, 2006... Oct. 8--DAYTON -- Cox Ohio Publishing has promoted three editors to key positions as part of a restructuring of the company's newspaper operations in southwestern Ohio. Jana Collier is managing editor of the Dayton Daily News, overseeing...

Kids' clothing chain opens locally.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Budd Oct. 9--SPRINGBORO -- Jennifer Frericks' store is the latest sign of new growth in the Children's Orchard. The upscale resale chain, begun as a single shop in a historic Massachusetts seaport in 1980, is now a...

WOXY.com resumes its broadcasts.
October 10, 2006... Byline: Dave Larsen Oct. 10--Alternative rock fans, your prayers have been answered. WOXY.com resumes broadcasting at 10:10 a.m. today. The Cincinnati-based Internet radio station has been acquired by lala.com, a CD trading Web site...

Moraine, Ohio, center lands first tenant.
October 11, 2006... Byline: John Nolan Oct. 11--MORAINE -- Three Bond International Inc., a Japanese manufacturer of sealants and adhesives for the automotive and electronics industries, is to start operations by next summer as the first occupant of the...

Cleaner-fuel requirement for diesels starts Sunday.
October 11, 2006... Byline: John Nolan Oct. 11--Starting on Sunday, the government will require widespread retail availability of ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel to reduce air pollution from commercial trucks and buses. Government officials and...

Couple gives Kettering, Ohio, medical center $5.5 million for heart hospital.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Anthony Gottschlich Oct. 11--KETTERING -- Dr. Benjamin Schuster and his wife, Marian, are giving Kettering Medical Center $5.5 million toward construction of the heart hospital that will bear their name, the medical center...

Centerville, Ohio, adds 173 acres with annex approval.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Katherine Ullmer Oct. 11--CENTERVILLE -- Centerville City Council held a special meeting Monday in which it accepted by a vote of 5-0 the annexation of 173.4 acres of the Dille property in Sugarcreek Twp. to Centerville. The...

Vectren predicts 15 percent to 20 percent heat bill drop.
October 12, 2006... Byline: John Nolan Oct. 12--DAYTON -- Customers who heat their homes or businesses with natural gas from Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio Inc. should see bills 15 to 20 percent lower this season, Vectren officials said Wednesday. ...

AK Steel: Changes to offer unlikely.
October 12, 2006... Byline: Dave Greber Oct. 12--MIDDLETOWN -- Negotiators representing locked-out workers at AK Steel Corp.'s flagship mill Wednesday "tightened up" issues it had with the company's final offer. The steelmaker said it will review the...

Downtown Dayton Partnership gears up for president search.
October 13, 2006... Byline: James Cummings Oct. 13--DAYTON -- The Downtown Dayton Partnership plans to hire an executive recruitment firm soon to conduct a national search to replace Maureen Pero who resigned as the organization's president last month,...

Bethany Village announces expansion.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Kristin McAllister Oct. 13--CENTERVILLE -- Bethany Village plans to build 30 new villas, 30 new apartments, a Village Center and a new state-of-the-art Memory Support residence at its Centerville retirement community. The new...

Dropouts get second chance at Dayton, Ohio, charter school.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Scott Elliott Oct. 16--DAYTON -- Improved Solution for Urban Systems, or ISUS, is the brainchild of Ann Higdon, the school's superintendent. For seven years in the 1990s, Higdon's group worked with troubled youth within Dayton...

Australian company comes to composite materials campus.
October 17, 2006... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Oct. 17--DAYTON -- The National Composite Center on Monday welcomed its second corporate tenant to the Dayton Campus for Advanced Materials Technologies. The new company is Australian advanced-materials...

Local phone company OKs merger.
October 17, 2006... Byline: Lou Grieco Oct. 17--GERMANTOWN -- Shareholders of the Germantown Independent Telephone Company voted overwhelmingly Saturday to merge with FairPoint Communications Inc., ending the century-old company's run as an independent local...

Fidelity Plaza offering deals.
October 17, 2006... Byline: Joanne Huist Smith Oct. 17--DAYTON -- The new owner of Fidelity Plaza in downtown Dayton said he's using "guerrilla marketing," South Florida slang for an aggressive and persistent marketing approach, to lure potential tenants into...

Health insurance costs force employers, workers to adjust.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Anthony Gottschlich Oct. 18--DAYTON -- Ed Grant says he's a "dinosaur." He's a small business owner trying to be a good boss by paying 100 percent of his six employees' health insurance coverage, a rarity these days. But...

Earnings lag behind health care costs.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Anthony Gottschlich Oct. 18--DAYTON -- The price of health care insurance is taking a bigger bite out of our paychecks, a new report illustrates, and at least one health care economist sees the trend growing. "It's definitely...

DP&L customers won't get competing offers.
October 18, 2006... Byline: John Nolan Oct. 18--For the second consecutive year, no company accepted an invitation to provide electricity customers with a rate lower than what Dayton Power and Light Co. charges. That's even though 24,400 DP&L customers...

Strickland's economic plan detailed.
October 19, 2006... Byline: Joanne Huist Smith Oct. 19--DAYTON -- Creating an unbreakable link between education and economic development will be the over-arching goal of an administration with Democrat Ted Strickland as governor, said his running mate Lee...

Rewards key to keeping good workers, area executives say.
October 19, 2006... Byline: Kristin McAllister Oct. 19--DAYTON -- Companies stand to lose up to $450 billion a year in lost productivity due to employees goofing off and the loss of high performers who got tired of picking up the slack, according to...

Deep skill set, diverse products key to manufacturing success, expert says.
October 22, 2006... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Oct. 22--DAYTON -- Looming plant closings and workforce reductions in the auto industry have dominated local manufacturing news. But small manufacturers have held their own by embracing high technology and...

Brick crosswalks to be replaced by concrete in Dayton, Ohio's business district.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Joanne Huist Smith Oct. 23--DAYTON -- Dayton plans to replace brick crosswalks in its Central Business District with more durable concrete. The Dayton City Commission on Wednesday approved the improvements that will cost about...

Dayton, Ohio, technology show event aims to cultivate new generation of workers.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Oct. 23--DAYTON -- While big manufacturers are shedding jobs, small companies are struggling to find the highly skilled workers they need, says a local teacher. Manufacturing jobs "aren't disappearing as much...

Airfares soar for holiday as space tightens.
October 24, 2006... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Oct. 24--DAYTON -- Thinking of flying to Grandmother's house for Thanksgiving? You'll pay, pilgrim. Early planners gobbled up all the good fares, a local travel expert says. And an air travel consultant says...

Meijer to fill antibiotic prescriptions for free.
October 24, 2006... Byline: Benjamin Kline Oct. 24--Meijer Inc., operator of 176 discount stores in Ohio and four other Midwestern states, on Monday announced a free prescription drug program to provide antibiotic medicines to customers. Meijer President...

Is Ag Department being lax on large farms?
October 25, 2006... Byline: Ben Sutherly Oct. 25--A national environmental group is calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to turn down the Ohio Department of Agriculture's bid to assume more permitting authority over large livestock farms,...

Dayton, Ohio, commissioners OK pay raise for mayor, themselves.
October 25, 2006... Byline: Joanne Huist Smith Oct. 25--DAYTON -- Dayton city commissioners approved a pay raise for themselves Wednesday morning, the first since 2000. Commissioner Joey Williams cast the only dissenting vote in the 4-1 approval. "I...

California-based fuel cell company bringing jobs to Dayton, Ohio.
October 25, 2006... Oct. 25--DAYTON -- A California-based fuel cell company will open a Dayton-area production plant that will employ 360 people over four years, according to Ohio Gov. Bob Taft's office. Taft spokeswoman Jane Bosak said the governor and...

Historic Lebanon, Ohio, restaurant, inn under new operators.
October 25, 2006... Byline: Daniel Wells Oct. 25--The newest chapter for Ohio's oldest inn will begin Monday. That's when Blue Ash-based Stevens Hospitality will begin running the 203-year-old Golden Lamb, the company's president, Steven D. Mullinger,...

Charter schools still face challenge in U.S. court.
October 26, 2006... Byline: Scott Elliott Oct. 26--DAYTON -- Opponents of charter schools who believe they unfairly take money from school districts can still look to Dayton for hope that the courts might yet alter Ohio's school choice landscape. ...

Clark State looking at I-675 for branch site.
October 26, 2006... Byline: Kelly Baker Oct. 26--SPRINGFIELD -- Xenia's mayor said she is excited Clark State Community College will open a campus in Greene County, even if that campus is not in her city. On Wednesday, Clark State officials met with about...

Battery-powered fuel cells could benefit troops.
October 26, 2006... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Oct. 26--DAYTON -- Military troops, emergency workers and business professionals depend ever more on laptop computers and other portable electronics. But electronics need power, and a laptop computer can suck...

GM cites cut in losses as proof of turnaround working.
October 26, 2006... Byline: John Nolan Oct. 26--General Motors said Wednesday it cut its third-quarter loss to $115 million from $1.7 billion a year ago, citing that as evidence that its plan to return to profitability is working. That loss included $644...

Report shows mass layoffs, jobless claims up in Ohio.
October 26, 2006... Byline: Kristin McAllister Oct. 26--Mass layoffs increased in September in Ohio compared with this time last year and the state had the second highest initial unemployment claims in the nation , according a report by the federal Bureau of...

U.S. 35 reconstruction 42 percent done.
October 26, 2006... Byline: Steve Bennish Oct. 26--DAYTON -- A big piece of the $52 million U.S. 35 reconstruction project is under way with the demolition of the Steve Whalen Boulevard fly-over bridge, the Ohio Department of Transportation said Wednesday....

Retailers expand $4 generic drug offer.
October 26, 2006... Byline: Lisa A. Bernard Oct. 26--Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, is expanding its $4 generic prescription program to Ohio and 11 other states. The move comes days after Meijer Inc. announced a free prescription...

Reynolds returns to private ranks after closing on $3 billion merger.
October 26, 2006... Byline: John Nolan Oct. 26--KETTERING -- Reynolds and Reynolds became a private company Thursday for the first time since 1960, closing its $3 billion merger with privately held Universal Computer Systems. Reynolds' shares will no...

NCR reports higher profits for the third quarter, beating expectations.
October 27, 2006... Byline: John Nolan Oct. 27--DAYTON -- NCR improved its third-quarter profit from a year ago, after the positive effect of $142 million in tax benefits for the quarter in 2005 was excluded, the company reported on Thursday. NCR had net...

Tobacco giant provides most funds for State Issue 4 drive.
October 30, 2006... Byline: Laura A. Bischoff Oct. 30--COLUMBUS -- If you have any doubt about who is behind State Issue 4, the so-called "common sense smoking ban," consider this: 99.8 percent of its financial support comes from R.J. Reynolds Corp. The...

Couple plan to restore building that housed McCrory's store.
October 30, 2006... Byline: Joanne Huist Smith Oct. 30--DAYTON -- There's little left in the McCrory's building downtown to remind folks of the once-popular five-and-dime. The display cases are gone, so is the lunch counter. Ornate stairwell mirrors are...

Judge asked to approve $7.4 million class action settlement.
October 30, 2006... Byline: Rob Modic Oct. 30--DAYTON -- A Montgomery County judge Tuesday will be asked to approve a $4.7 million class action settlement of a lawsuit brought by purchasers of a sexual enhancement dietary supplement against the...

BBB issues consumer alert on possible loan scam.
October 30, 2006... Byline: Margo Rutledge Kissell Oct. 30--DAYTON -- The Better Business Bureau serving the Miami Valley on Monday issued a consumer alert warning residents of an advance fee loan scam allegedly operating in the area. Direct Capital Inc....

Miami County, Ohio, hog farm seeks OK to expand.
October 31, 2006... Byline: Ben Sutherly Oct. 31--NEWBERRY TWP., Miami County -- A hog farm four miles northwest of Covington wants to more than double in size from 2,000 hogs to 4,400 hogs -- an expansion that would make it the county's only livestock farm...

Product claims on sex enhancement supplement may be settled for $4.7 million.
October 31, 2006... Byline: Rob Modic Oct. 31--DAYTON -- A Montgomery County judge today will be asked to approve a $4.7 million class-action settlement of a lawsuit brought by purchasers of a sexual enhancement dietary supplement marketed by the...