BATAVIA — Bond was set at $50,000 for the Batavia man charged with corruption of a minor involving a 14-year-old Union Township girl who was missing from her home for 24 hours.

        Jeffrey Reno, 22, was being held Friday at the Clermont County Jail. Clermont County Municipal Judge James Shriver set bond and told Mr. Reno not to have any contact with the victim or her family.

        A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 21. The charge is a fourth-degree felony.

        The girl's parents had reported her missing to Union Township police Wednesday. She returned home at 2:45 p.m. Thursday after police had spent much of the day searching for her.

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        Clermont County Sheriff Albert Rodenberg said the charge involves having sexual relations with an underage victim.

Judge Jones to get human relations award

        Retired Judge Nathaniel R. Jones will receive the 2002 Human Relations Award of the American Jewish Committee Cincinnati Chapter at a tribute dinner on Wednesday at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel.

        Judge Jones is being honored as “a staunch defender of human rights, who has shaped American history through his opposition to segregation and discrimination,” said Dr. Kenneth Newmark, president of the AJC.

        Recently retired after 23 years of service on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Judge Jones was assistant U.S. attorney in Cleveland before his appointment as counsel to the Kerner Commission, which studied the causes of the urban riots of the 1960s.

        He later served as general counsel for the NAACP for 10 years.

N.Bend, Cheviot traffic study to be discussed

        People who live, work and commute along North Bend and Cheviot roads are invited to an open house Wednesday to discuss a traffic assessment study of the Cheviot/North Bend Corridor.

        Hamilton County engineers, project engineers and officials from Green Township, Colerain Township and Cheviot are seeking suggestions for improving traffic flow in the corridor, which crosses through the three communities.

        The assessment study encompasses 5.3 miles, beginning where North Bend Road intersects with Harrison Avenue in Cheviot and ending where Cheviot Road stops at Poole Road in Colerain Township.

        The meeting will run from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Green Township Senior Center, 3820 Epley Road. Check www.northbendcheviotroad.com for details.

3 city commissions looking for volunteers

        MONTGOMERY — Volunteers are needed to fill vacancies on three city commissions.

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        Spots are open on the Arts Commission, which meets the first Monday of the month at 7 p.m.; the Planning Commission, which meets every first and third Monday of the month, at 7:30 p.m.; and the Sister City Commission, which meets at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month.

        For more information, call Joyce Yock, 792-8329.

Blue Ash panel to steer bond with German city

        BLUE ASH — Council members will allow a 12-member committee of educators, business people and citizens to steer the city's future relationship with Ilmenau, Germany.

        At a Thursday session, they authorized Blue Ash Sister City Inc. to oversee the international sister-city relationship that will be based on cultural understanding and an exchange of business, educational and cultural ideas.

        The two cities spent two years working to become sister cities. They signed an official Sister-City agreement April 29.
       

Clermont Co. names director of planning

        BATAVIA — Curt Paddock has been named director of Clermont County's Department of Planning and Economic Development.

        Mr. Paddock will oversee the planning and environmental quality offices, beginning July 1. His salary will be $77,000.

        He has served as president of Trajectory, a consulting agency, and executive director of the Hamilton County Municipal League.
       

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