Today is Nov. 27, 2024.

• Happy Thanksgiving eve! “Over the river and through the woods” are words usually reserved for Turkey Day, but this year “dashing through the snow” may be more appropriate. We’re going to start out decently enough today, with a thick cloud cover and a shower in spots late in the afternoon; the high today will be 46 degrees. But then things change: Tonight’s low will drop to 35 and snow moves in, with 1 to 2 inches forecast between 11 p.m. tonight and 1 p.m. Thursday. Rain will mix with snow later Thursday, with the low dropping to 28 on Thanksgiving night. So be careful on the roads out there because they could be icing up.
  

• ANOTHER WEDNESDAY SPOTLIGHT: You’re getting The Spotlight in your inbox this morning instead of Thursday since that’s Thanksgiving and we’re all going to be busy. After this week we’ll be back to our normal publishing schedule, which means you’ll get your next edition of The Spotlight on Thursday, Dec. 5.
  

• SPONSOR A WREATH FOR A VETERAN’S GRAVE: Wreaths Across America Day 2024 will take place Saturday, Dec. 14. To sponsor a wreath that will be placed on a veteran’s grave that day during the Joshua Stow Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution ceremony at Stow Cemetery, go to www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/OH0247P. For more details on Wreaths Across America, see the Community Calendar further down this newsletter.
  

• SILVER LAKE LEAF PICK-UP: Residents who would like their leaves and limbs to be collected by the village must place them on the curb by Sunday, Dec. 1. On Dec. 2, leaf machines will make one final collection on each street before the program ends for the year.
  

• STOW BRUSH DROP-OFF SITE CLOSED: The City of Stow’s brush drop-off site is closed this week (Nov. 25-Dec. 1) for maintenance. It will reopen Monday, Dec. 2. The brush drop-off site is located at 5070 Stow Rd., across from Silver Springs Park.
  

• SMF LIBRARY JOB OPENINGS: The Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library has four part-time positions available: Technical Services Senior Processor, Community Outreach and Partnerships Associate, Information Services Associate and Public Services Assistant. For more information, visit https://www.smfpl.org/about/employment.
  

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Nailing it down: Timeline coming together for the looming “big dig” on Darrow Road

Mayor John Pribonic and City of Stow Engineer James McCleary have updated The Spotlight on the timeline for the upcoming — and extensive — Darrow Road Reconstruction project and Kent Road Signal project, set to begin in early 2025. Here’s where things currently stand:

• Engineering and construction plans are complete, and both projects have been filed with the Ohio Department of Transportation.

• The city is hopeful that ODOT will authorize the projects to go out to bid in December.

• The city will then bid the projects out and award the construction contract in February 2025.

• Should the above timeline hold, the road work will start in spring 2025.

Construction will take 18 months and should be complete in fall 2026.

Reader Spotlight

— In last week’s edition of The Spotlight, we received this from Bob: “I really don’t understand the lack of action by our mayor in getting the proper repairs to Rt. 91 which is a major roadway to the citizens of our town and many visitors as well. I’m guessing that it’s probably not a road that he travels on daily.”

In response, we got this from Marvin Pflaum: “Stow has an exceptional Mayor in John Pribonic. Rt. 91 is a state responsibility not a city responsibility. Perhaps Reader Bob might inform himself of facts before making snide remarks about a really good mayor.”

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