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HarborLink Network News & Events
July 21, 2005
Wireless Internet soon to
be offered in downtown
Worthington
By GARY SEMAN
JR.
ThisWeek Staff Writer
Soon
enough, you'll be able to
browse your favorite Web
sites while sipping a cup of
coffee in downtown
Worthington.
Worthington City Council on
Monday night approved a
measure that allows
HarborLink Network to
provide wireless Internet
service in the city's
business district.
Dayton-based HarborLink said
it plans to install four
devices -- about as big as a
shoe box with two antennae
that will point toward the
ground -- on lamps from
Stafford Avenue to South
Street. It will provide
computer users with Internet
hookup in a roughly one-mile
radius.
The system
is expected to be in
operation by September.
Rick
Tangeman, president of
HarborLink, said the free
service is designed to
attract more people to the
downtown business district.
Tangeman's company already
has a similar agreement in
downtown Dayton and is
negotiating similar
arrangements in a dozen
other cities.
In other
news from Monday's meeting,
council agreed to amend the
final development plan for
Worthington Mall. Kroger
will expand west to the
Beauty First storefront,
while mall officials look to
relocate the business, said
assistant city manager Paul
Feldman.
The city
agreed to give a variance to
mall officials, who are
looking to raze that portion
of the center to make way
for a 22-foot-wide road,
Feldman said. Kroger,
meanwhile, will purchase the
land upon which it sits and
a small portion of the
parking lot, he said.
City
council also agreed to
provide police dispatching
services to Perry Township.
According to the deal, the
township will pay the city
$12,465 for a contract that
will extend from Sept. 1 to
Dec. 31. City manager Dave
Elder said Worthington
already provides dispatching
for the township's fire and
EMS runs. Elder said the
city expects to take an
extra three or four calls a
day, on top of the 120 calls
for service it already
receives. He said it will
not result in the hiring of
another employee.
A new
contract is expected to be
approved by Jan. 1, 2006.
Elder said it's unclear
whether it would be a
long-term arrangement or
something that is updated
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