BARTON — Colerain Township Trustees were the recipients of the 2025 JB Green Team comprehensive grant for $5,000.

The township purchased two welcome signs for the unincorporated communities of Barton and Maynard.

The signs contain 97% recycled post-consumer products. A 20% match from the Township made the project qualify.

Colerain Township Trustee Jeff Gazdik said that Barton and Maynard have really never had big welcome signs and he believed that neither were able to be identified when driving through.

“When people come into town like when we have the Polka Fest in Barton, we’ve never had a large sign saying ‘Welcome to Barton’ or anything like that. So we looked into getting some signs, and we found out that the JB Green Team’s grant would cover that,” Gazdik said. “We found out that

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