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Art fair and E-club Environmental Expo at South Lebanon Elementary

Art fair and E-club Environmental Expo at South Lebanon Elementary

KINGS MILLS,OH (FOX19) - The annual Art Fair and E-Club Environmental Expo is on Thursday, November 15 at South Lebanon Elementary.

During the expo from 6:30pm - 8:30pm, third and fourth grade E-Club members will host a variety of community resources such as Duke Energy, Rumpke Recycling, and the Warren County Soil and Water. Students will showcase environmentally friendly practices with hands-on activities and giveaways.

St. Susanna hosts household electronic waste recycling event

St. Susanna hosts household electronic waste recycling event

MASON, OH (FOX19) - St. Susanna Catholic Church is hosting a household electronics recycling collection event with 2trg, a certified electronics recycler, on Saturday, September 22, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.  The church is located at 616 Reading Road in Mason.  A convenient drive-through drop-off station will be available in the parking lot.

Mason residents receive new recycling bins

Mason residents receive new recycling bins

MASON, OH (FOX19) - Seventeen semi-truckloads of wheeled recycling carts were delivered to Mason residents over the weekend. Mason has a significant recycling rate, with 60% to 70% of residents recycling.

In March, Mason City Council approved a new 2-year contract with Rumpke for trash collection. In response to a number of customer requests, the bid specs included the city’s preference to move to a larger recycling container with a lid. Rumpke’s bid included a large 65-gallon capacity recycling cart at the same monthly fee as their proposed 18-gallon container. The rate for the larger recycling cart with lid was an attractive option to encourage Mason residents to continue their recycling efforts.

DP&L customers offered two light bulbs when one is purchased

DP&L customers offered two light bulbs when one is purchased

DAYTON (FOX19) - Dayton Power and Light is encouraging their customers to switch to compact fluorescent bulbs, and is offering a discount to do that, although for Warren County customers it may require a trip to Germantown or Wilmington.

DP&L says that incandescent light bulbs that use four times more energy than efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL’s), and that replacing one inefficient bulb with a CFL – which lasts 10 times longer - could save you $30 over its lifetime.

CFL’s cost more up front, though. DP&L is giving Miami Valley shoppers three chances over the next few weeks to spring into savings by buying a CFL at a reduced price and getting one free at area retailers.

•             On Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lowe’s, 2900 Martin’s Drive, West Carrollton. Radio station WMMX-FM (107.7) will be broadcasting live from the store.

Some SW Ohio counties among tops for turkeys

Some SW Ohio counties among tops for turkeys

COLUMBUS, OH (FOX19) - Four of the Tri-State's 8 counties were among the state's top ten for turkeys taken on the first day of the spring turkey season, and among the top 15 for the number of turkeys taken per square mile.

Ohio hunters harvested a preliminary total of 2,227 bearded wild turkeys on the first day of the spring turkey-hunting season, which is open statewide through May 20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. In 2011, a preliminary total of 2,646 wild turkeys were killed on opening day.

Top counties for wild turkeys killed on Monday were: Ashtabula-93, Coshocton-79, Tuscarawas-78, Muskingum-74, Guernsey-69, Adams-62, Highland-57, Knox-56, Brown-55 and Clermont-54.

Whole Foods Market Mason hosts free household electronic waste recycling event

Whole Foods Market Mason hosts free household electronic waste recycling event

 

MASON, OH (FOX19) - Whole Foods Market Mason, a natural and organic grocery store, is sponsoring a recycling drive with 2trg, an electronics recycler based in Blue Ash, to collect unwanted electronic waste from the local community on Friday, March 23, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

All electronics will be recycled by 2trg, which operates under zero landfill and zero export policies.  Data storage devices will be sanitized according to NIST SP 800-88 standards.

People told to eat less fish from Great Miami and Mill Creek, more OK at Caesar Creek Lake

People told to eat less fish from Great Miami and Mill Creek, more OK at Caesar Creek Lake

COLUMBUS, OH (FOX19) - For the 2012 season, Ohio has relaxed fish consumption advisories in four water bodies, 1 of them in the Tri-State, and added more strict limits in 10 waterways. 

This year’s fish consumption advisory contains updates to 15 locations based on detections from samples that were taken from 14 lakes and reservoirs and 18 streams in 2010.

Places where you can eat more fish: