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The City of Dayton awarded $100,000 of its American Rescue Plan money to Bike Miami Valley. The nonprofit runs Link: Dayton Bike Share, a bike sharing program in the city. With the money Link will now be expanding its bike program into West Dayton.
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City officials and community members met at the Dayton West Branch Library Tuesday to discuss updates to the Wright brothers plane factory site.
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This month, the Dayton Metro Library West Branch opened to the public. The branch sits near the site of the old Wright Brothers airplane factory. The new building features a tech studio, a playroom and even a portable kitchen.
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Mayor Jeffrey Mims addresses the 142 suggestions the city received in regard to police reform and explains how the city may spend some its $138 million in COVID relief funds.
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For some, the point of an urban garden is about addressing food scarcity, for others it means connecting neighbors with other neighbors. While others might just do it as a hobby. But it can also be a major undertaking.
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Dayton is known for invention and innovation, and there’s a new wave of creative energy coming from the West Side. Young people are making art, with deep commitment to community building and social justice.
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Community cleanup group "I Love West Dayton" is looking to launch an affordable housing project, "No Place Like Home."
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The Edgemont Solar Garden on Miami Chapel Road has a long history on Dayton’s West Side. Lately it’s experienced a regeneration of sorts, with partners like Central State University and Agraria in Yellow Springs joining in to support urban agriculture.
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The initiative will work to remove barriers for Black and brown entrepreneurs.
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West Dayton residents were without access to healthy foods, to quality fresh fruits and vegetables. But when the community decided to no longer accept the unacceptable, the Gem City Market emerged. And it's so much more than a grocery store.
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A free, family-friendly grand opening of the branch is planned for early 2022.
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The Great Miami River and Wolf Creek are natural boundaries that once defined the borders of Dayton’s West Side. The artificial boundaries of I-75 and US 35 further shaped it. But there’s another boundary created by the practice of redlining, the intentional denial of opportunity to residents of an area based on race.