CINCINNATI (FOX19) – Nine city workers who come up with new ideas are in line for prizes supported by a grant from a local foundation and judged by local business leaders.

Monday the City of Cincinnati, with grant support from the Seasongood Good Government Foundation, launched the 2012 City of Cincinnati Innovation Awards program. The City and Seasongood wish to recognize and encourage City employees whose creativity and tenacity positively impact the Cincinnati community. “The Seasongood Foundation is pleased that this award-winning program is being restarted in a new format,” said David Altman, Executive Secretary of the Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation. “The project will offer another incentive for public employees to innovate and enhance services for our citizens. This effort is at the very heart of the “good government” that the Foundation seeks to stimulate.”

CINCINNATI (FOX19) – In the throes of the Great Depression, workers with the Works Progress Administration, an agency that put unemployed people to work, created a set of maps intended to show every burial spot for veterans in Hamilton County, from the Revolutionary War through what was then called the World War.

Less than 20 years later, the records were transferred to microfiche, and in the 1970’s, the Hamilton County Recorder’s Office made what could have been a costly decision.  They decided to get rid of the books, not knowing that the printed text would last better than the microfiche, which has been deteriorating, frustrating historians and genealogists for decades.

Wednesday, the original books were unveiled, having survived a series of moves that might have led to their disappearance, if a few people hadn’t sought to preserve them.

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Mayor Mark Mallory and Ohio EPA Director Scott Nally today toured two environmental remediation projects in the City’s West End neighborhood by the Samuel Adams Brewery Company. 

The City of Cincinnati and the State of Ohio have partnered to use $3.6 million in Clean Ohio funding to remove environmental contamination from the properties and make way for expansion of Sam Adams operations in Cincinnati.  “The City’s partnership with the Ohio EPA is using Clean Ohio Funds to help local businesses grown and expand,” Mayor Mallory said. “We are cleaning up 2 contaminated sites and turning them into property that will allow Sam Adams to expand their Cincinnati operations.”