Poland Village denied grant to install sidewalk

POLAND

The village will not have a sidewalk installed on Sheridan Road in the near future.

Village council’s application for the next round of Safe Routes to Schools, a grant program administered by the Ohio Department of Transportation that helps communities install sidewalks to increase foot traffic to schools, was denied, council member Bill Dunnavant announced at a meeting Tuesday.

Council members had hoped to add a sidewalk on Sheridan between Island Drive and Johnston Place, near the North school building.

Safe Routes to School is the program from which township officials got a $500,000 grant last year to install a sidewalk on state Route 170 from Nesbitt Street to Dobbins Road.