<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4459e08d-a937-458d-ba67-5642d05ac7b8/A3FBBC3F-30DB-4C04-846E-B6658CA16E40/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/01/CONCRETE.ART_ART_06-01-08_B1_KRACA56.html?sid=101" href="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/01/CONCRETE.ART_ART_06-01-08_B1_KRACA56.html?sid=101" style="font-size: 11px;">www.columbusdispatch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/01/CONCRETE.ART_ART_06-01-08_B1_KRACA56.html?sid=101"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.columbusdispatch.com/img/036802FD-C042-47D5-A803-C48BB4EA6AE3" alt="<p>Bellefontaine's Court Avenue should be kept open to traffic, some residents have told the City Council. Officials are unsure whether to allow cars after a $215,000 restoration project.</p>" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/01/CONCRETE.ART_ART_06-01-08_B1_KRACA56.html?sid=101"><DIV class="hed">Cracked street's hereafter splits Bellefontaine</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/01/CONCRETE.ART_ART_06-01-08_B1_KRACA56.html?sid=101"><DIV class="subhed"> Preservationists want to close oldest concrete road </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/01/CONCRETE.ART_ART_06-01-08_B1_KRACA56.html?sid=101">That's the problem. Rough and rugged really aren't the attributes cities strive for in their streets. But repairing the historic, block-long stretch of Court Avenue is problematic, too. Laid in 1891, it is officially the oldest concrete street in America.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/01/CONCRETE.ART_ART_06-01-08_B1_KRACA56.html?sid=101"><P>With grant money from the Ohio Department of Transportation, the city is ready for a $215,000 restoration project. Everyone agrees the street repairs are a wonderful idea. What they cannot agree on is what to do once the work is finished.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/01/CONCRETE.ART_ART_06-01-08_B1_KRACA56.html?sid=101"><P>Downtown business owners want Court Avenue kept open to traffic. They say it should be used as it was intended and that, right in the heart of the city and adjacent to the Logan County Courthouse, it is a vital downtown artery.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/01/CONCRETE.ART_ART_06-01-08_B1_KRACA56.html?sid=101"><P>McCormick said his organization will continue to lobby for the street's closure, but he is resigned that it's a fight they will probably lose.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A3FBBC3F-30DB-4C04-846E-B6658CA16E40/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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