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Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
First recreational cannabis dispensary opening soon in Middletown
Apr. 14—Middletown's first regulated cannabis dispensary, Terrasana, will open its doors in the coming weeks at 3616 Dixie Highway. Terrasana will occupy a 3,000-square-foot former bank building on the southwest corner of Dixie Highway and Pendleton Circle. The company said they chose the location because it's "strategically located" just minutes off Interstate 75 in a "high-traffic retail corridor." "Our goal is to make a positive impact in Middletown by creating good jobs, drawing more visitors to the area and engaging in meaningful community partnerships," Chad Wise, owner of Terrasana, said. "We are an integral part of the communities we serve." Wise said Terrasana has additional openings planned throughout Ohio later this year. Terrasana has locations in Cleveland, Columbus, Fremont and Springfield. Each dispensary offers its own menu of medical marijuana products including edibles, cannabis tinctures, topicals, vapes and more. Every dispensary operates under a comprehensive set of guidelines and protocols as defined by the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program, ensuring a secure and compliant experience. Terrasana said it will bring increased access to "safe and regulated cannabis products" for cannabis consumers throughout the region. In July 2024, Middletown City Council overturned a 2017 ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and passed an ordinance permitting a total of three dispensaries, medical and recreational. Monroe has four dual-use marijuana dispensaries, two in Butler County and two in Warren County. Per capita, it has more marijuana businesses than any Ohio city, Monroe City Council members said in August 2024. Other dual-use dispensaries in Butler County include Bloom Medicinals in Seven Mile and Beyond Hello and Consume Oxford in Oxford. Grand opening details for the Middletown location, including a formal ribbon cutting ceremony, will be announced in the coming weeks.
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Middletown to host ribbon cutting for JD Vance road signs with his family
Vice President JD Vance's family is expected to celebrate his new street signs in Middletown, Ohio on Saturday. The city is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a sign on Cincinnati-Dayton Road and Vance's family will attend, a Facebook page for the event says. Vance's mom, Beverly Aikins, asked the city to recognize her son at a Middletown City Council meeting in December. Aikins, and several of Vance's other relatives, still live in Middletown, where he was born and raised. "I am just here because I am JD Vance's mother and as you know he is our new vice president-elect and he thinks of Middletown as his home," she said at the time. "I still live here and his sister still lives in Middletown. He's got two nieces who live here and I just think it would be really nice if we could acknowledge that this is his hometown and put up some signs." A few other residents and council members at the meeting also called for signs, but not everyone was on board. Councilwoman Jennifer Carter, who previously told The Enquirer she doesn't like Vance's policies, was against putting up the signs. City officials granted the request for signs this month. The new signs read "Hometown of J.D. Vance, 50th Vice President of the United States of America" and are installed at these locations: Central Avenue and Carmody Boulevard. Ohio Route 4 and Germantown Road, near the Middletown Regional Airport. Ohio Route 73 at the Middletown city limits. Ohio Route 122 and Interstate 75. Ohio Route 4 and Lafayette Avenue. South Main Street at the city limits. Cincinnati-Dayton Road at the city limits. Vance graduated from Middletown High School in 2003. He wrote about his turbulent upbringing and his mother's struggles with substance use in "Hillbilly Elegy." The best-selling memoir went on to inspire a Netflix movie in 2020. Vance was played by Owen Asztalos and his mom was portrayed by Amy Adams. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: JD Vance's family, Ohio hometown celebrate his road signs
USA Today
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Middletown to host ribbon cutting for JD Vance road signs with his family
Vice President JD Vance's family is expected to celebrate his new street signs in Middletown, Ohio on Saturday. The city is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a sign on Cincinnati-Dayton Road and Vance's family will attend, a Facebook page for the event says. Vance's mom, Beverly Aikins, asked the city to recognize her son at a Middletown City Council meeting in December. Aikins, and several of Vance's other relatives, still live in Middletown, where he was born and raised. "I am just here because I am JD Vance's mother and as you know he is our new vice president-elect and he thinks of Middletown as his home," she said at the time. "I still live here and his sister still lives in Middletown. He's got two nieces who live here and I just think it would be really nice if we could acknowledge that this is his hometown and put up some signs." A few other residents and council members at the meeting also called for signs, but not everyone was on board. Councilwoman Jennifer Carter, who previously told The Enquirer she doesn't like Vance's policies, was against putting up the signs. City officials granted the request for signs this month. The new signs read "Hometown of J.D. Vance, 50th Vice President of the United States of America" and are installed at these locations: Central Avenue and Carmody Boulevard. Ohio Route 4 and Germantown Road, near the Middletown Regional Airport. Ohio Route 73 at the Middletown city limits. Ohio Route 122 and Interstate 75. Ohio Route 4 and Lafayette Avenue. South Main Street at the city limits. Cincinnati-Dayton Road at the city limits. Vance wrote about Middletown childhood in 'Hillbilly Elegy' Vance graduated from Middletown High School in 2003. He wrote about his turbulent upbringing and his mother's struggles with substance use in "Hillbilly Elegy." The best-selling memoir went on to inspire a Netflix movie in 2020. Vance was played by Owen Asztalos and his mom was portrayed by Amy Adams.
