Staff/Wire reports

LOVELAND - The Works pizzeria, which opened in December in a former public works plant behind city hall, has received the city's 2004 Business Enhancement Award.

Mayor Brad Greenberg presented owners Scott and Jamie Gordon Tuesday with an engraved plaque for the family-style restaurant at 20 Grear Millitzer Way near the bike trail. Their names also will be added to a plaque of past winners that is displayed at city hall.

History House, museum to see repairs

LOVELAND - A donation from the city will help keep the Greater Loveland Historical Society Museum dry.

City council agreed to contribute $1,300 toward roof repairs at the 1862 museum building and to install new gutters and downspouts at the JoAnn Richardson History House, which is used for a variety of community events.

Estimated cost of repairs is $5,409, historical society officials said, and donations from other sources already have been pledged.

In recommending the city's donation, Mayor Brad Greenberg cited the museum's importance to the city.

Motorist, his rescuers to be honored today

FAIRFAX - A rescued motorist and eight citizens who came to his aid in March when his car plunged into a frigid creek will be honored today.

Fire, police and other emergency response personnel also will be recognized at the Fairfax Village Council meeting at 5903 Hawthorne St.

Charles Hickman, 48, of Madisonville, lost control of his car March 12 while traveling on Watterson Road at Bancroft Street. The vehicle slid down an embankment into the Little Duck Creek, where it flipped in 6 feet of water.

Four men went in after the car and turned it over while the others called 911.

Hickman has since recovered and plans to attend today's event, Police Chief Rick Patterson said.

City working to connect Snider Road

MASON - The city manager and engineer are trying to work out an agreement to get Snider Road connected from Tylersville Road to Reading Road (U.S. 42).

Henkle Schueler realtors, representing Everybody's Farm Inc., has suggested the city pay for about 400 feet of the extension and a bridge. The city's cost would be about $550,000.

City Manager Scot Lahrmer stated that he also recommends realigning the intersection of Reading and Snider roads, which would cost about $680,000 plus the cost to get property.

Ohio Supreme Court to meet in Batavia

BATAVIA - The Ohio Supreme Court will convene here in late April, hearing four oral arguments for cases of local interest in part of its semiannual off-site court program.

Chief Justice Thomas Moyer and the six associate justices will hear the arguments, starting at 9 a.m. on April 28 at the Clermont County Courthouse in Batavia.

Students and news media are invited to a news conference with the justices at 8:15 a.m. before the arguments in Judge Robert Ringland's courtroom on the courthouse's second floor.