Seneca County (OH) Courthouse, in Danger of Razing


After many years of lies, stalling, giving us hope that our Seneca County (Ohio) Courthouse would be renovated&restored, 2 of our county commissioners, Ben Nutter&Jeff Wagner, have decided that they will tear down our beloved Courthouse, "BECAUSE IT IS TIME". It is NOT time....it will NEVER be time!! This building is on the National Register of Historic Places.....it was built to last, out of materials that are still as strong today as they were when it was built in 1884,&the only reason anyone can ascertain as to why they want to tear it down is so they can build their own MONUMENT TO MEDIOCRITY in the rubble of this grand old building....only weeks after promising that they would NOT build anything else in it's place. Our town is dying.....our county is dying.....we have so much to offer here, but nobody will ever see that, because our commissioners are more concerned about their own political futures than they are about what's actually good about or for Tiffin&Seneca County, Ohio. Our history is being trashed. The only good to possibly come out of this is that Ben Nutter&Jeff Wagner's political careers will, hopefully, come to an END due to their short-sightedness, lying,&inability to comprehend the FACTS: that a restored/renovated Courthouse is worth more than a pre-fab fantasy courthouse; that it will cost more in the long run to tear down, build, maintain,&eventually replace anything put in it's place, because new construction is inferior to old construction;&that they'll lose the space they've been whining about needing, because they plan to tear down the space they already have, to build something that will be approximately 10,000 sq ft SMALLER than what they already own.THE DEMOLITION CREWS ARE SCHEDULED TO START NEXT WEEK....MERRY CHRISTMAS 2011! THE TIME TO STAND UP, ACT UP,&BE HEARD IS ***NOW***!!!!!







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CalvertBlue (February 4, 2012 at 6:59 pm)
I have watched a couple of the videos of the commissioners meetings that have been recently posted online. You people sound so self centered. Maybe you should move your focus to the next building that needs to be saved. Since they only last 50 years there has to be one somewhere in Seneca County that needs repair. I love the lady who said she did a survey based on "honks" and "thumbs up". LOL! That's some good statictics to base an arguement on!
Dreambro1 (January 11, 2012 at 2:27 am)
The courthouse has seen the Wrecking ball! Demolition has started !
mkstractors (January 10, 2012 at 8:46 pm)
things are not going to change until the politics of this town are changed its sad that even when people vote something down it still goes in to effect such as the 1 % tax increase that was just recently shut down by the people but is in effect any ways! we have to take a stand and get our town back and quit allowing corporate greed ruin our community this is all b/s its too late for the court house but we need to stop them in their tracks down with mayor montz and the rest these useless people!
LinTK (January 7, 2012 at 6:36 am)
Spend some time in front of the Courthouse this weekend.....see how many people are driving by, honking their horns&giving us the thumbs up, yelling "don't tear it down!" The ratio of those for, vs those against, is easily 5 to 1. You,&every single man, woman,&child in Seneca Co is being lied to by Nutter&Wagner.....but, unfortunately for you, you won't realize that until it's too late. You have my sympathies.

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