Not just an ad, art - Columbus Dispatch


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Not just an ad, art
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Pete Scantland, only 25 years old, was facing off against a handful of state of Ohio officials intent on essentially shutting down his nascent business, Orange Barrel Media. As he remembers the 2004 meeting, he was told his eye-popping outdoor ...

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Food trucks inspire glut of possibilities - Columbus Dispatch


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Food trucks inspire glut of possibilities
Columbus Dispatch
(I'd call that business Jiffy Split, by the way.) But Columbus is crawling with food trucks. Fleets of them fan out across the city every day. Franklinton even has a food-truck food court, with an indoor dining room and rotating vendors.

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Restaurateur passionate about neighborhoods - Columbus Dispatch


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Restaurateur passionate about neighborhoods
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Jim Sweeney of the Franklinton Development Association and Elizabeth Lessner are working to create another of her restaurants in this vacant building. The association is negotiating to buy it, hoping to transform the neighborhood across the Scioto ...

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Columbus Mileposts | April 28, 1814: Sarah Sullivant dies nursing ill soldiers - Columbus Dispatch

Columbus Mileposts | April 28, 1814: Sarah Sullivant dies nursing ill soldiers
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By Gerald Tebben Sarah Sullivant, 33-year-old wife of Franklinton founder Lucas Sullivant, died on April 28, 1814, while ministering to sick and wounded soldiers encamped in Franklinton. Sarah, who was born in 1781 on her father's Virginia plantation, ...

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Winners announced in 2011 APSO newspaper contest in Ohio | The Republic - The Republic

Winners announced in 2011 APSO newspaper contest in Ohio | The Republic
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AP COLUMBUS, Ohio — Newspapers in Columbus, Canton, Sandusky, East Liverpool and Fremont were named the best in the state Sunday in the annual Associated Press Society of Ohio newspaper competition. General Excellence awards for 2011 went to The ...

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Federal official urges local Somalis to aid their broken country - Columbus Dispatch

Federal official urges local Somalis to aid their broken country
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He talked to not only Somali leaders but also federal, state and law-enforcement members at the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities in Franklinton. The transitional government, backed by the United Nations and US government, is to cede power ...

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Winners announced in 2011 APSO newspaper contest - Press News

Winners announced in 2011 APSO newspaper contest
Press News
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Newspapers in Columbus, Canton, Sandusky, East Liverpool and Fremont were named the best in the state Sunday in the annual Associated Press Society of Ohio newspaper competition. General Excellence awards for 2011 went to The ...

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