October 26, 2021: Acreage located east of the Hickory St and Willow St subdivision has received preliminary approval from the Planning Commission and Village Council. Tuesday October 19th, 2021, Greg Modic representing the Petros Development Group presented their plan to develop acreage purchased the group in January 2021. The land was rezoned in early 2021 […]
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GRAFTON CELEBRATES 91-YEARS of PUBLIC POWER
Grafton Village Power & Light Celebrates public power week, Oct. 3-9 Village of Grafton, Ohio, October 4, 2021 – Grafton Village Power & Light is celebrating Public Power Week (#PublicPowerWeek), Oct. 3-9, along with more than 2,000 other community-owned, not-for-profit electric utilities that collectively provide electricity to 49 million Americans. “Public Power Week celebrates the […]
Grafton’s North Elevated Tank Recognized as one of Nation’s Best!
Grafton’s North Elevated Tank Rehabilitation Grafton’s 300,000-gallon North elevated water tower was built and first put into service in 1993. Through the years the North tower has served the residential and business community providing constant water pressures when as designed, especially when called upon to provided the supply greater demand during calls from Grafton Village […]
DOLLAR GENERAL Announcement
The pros and cons of retail development in Grafton Coming soon to 573 N Main St Grafton, by most accounts: Vacant 10+ years. No recent record of full-time employment of one or more. That’s 10+ years of little to likely no income tax. Property exterior in decline 14+ years. Current exterior visibly failing. Visibly a […]
JOHN FRANCIS LESCHER DAY – MARCH 6th
By Mayoral Proclamation, Friday March 6th, 2020 will be John Francis Lescher Day in memory of the life and legacy of Grafton’s own John Lescher.
GRAFTON VISIONING – GRAFTON TOMORROW
GRAFTON TOMORROW involves community based involvement in planning Grafton future. Join the effort… your involvement will play an important roll in Grafton’s near and future tomorrows.
SOLAR PARK RECEIVES STATEWIDE RECOGNITION
January 7, 2020 interview on Spectrum News 1
Grafton’s Daily Solar Generation
GRAFTON is …Lorain County’s BEACON Grafton Solar Park generation was granted Permission to Operate on December 24, 2019. Now, during daytime hours you can see the benefit of low-cost carbon free solar generation. Click HERE to see Grafton’s real-time data!
ACTIVATE…. take the survey and support GRAFTON
NOACA is evaluating the process of creating a new bicycle and pedestrian plan, called ACTIVATE. The first part of this endeavor includes gaining public feedback in the form of a survey. We need your help in spreading the survey around GRAFTON so that we can ensure we receive responses that address the needs of our […]
WILLOW PARK COMMUNITY BUILD-UPDATE
The Village of Grafton is making improvements to Willow Park. A new stage area and playground structures will be installed this year. The playground structures will include play equipment for children of all ages and abilities. The construction of this project is partly funded with a NatureWorks grant and will also include a Community Build […]