Keep Mineral Ridge post office open, officials urge
Staff report
MINERAL RIDGE
Weathersfield Township trustees approved a resolution aimed at keeping a township post office open, after post office officials have said they will close it March 25 and temporarily relocate it to the Niles location at 43 W. Park Ave. because negotiations with the current Mineral Ridge landlord have not produced a new agreement. The resolution says trustees are seeking help from state and congressional representatives to retain the Mineral Ridge site.
District manager of the Northern Ohio District of the U.S. Postal Service, Todd Hawkins, said in a Feb. 9 letter to Trustee Chairman James Stoddard that the Postal Service’s Facility Service office has begun the process of finding an alternative location in Mineral Ridge. Trustees, however, are urging the postal service to engage in “meaningful realistic negotiations with the current property owner.”