Aurora Nets $500,000 State Grant for Trail Project

The city of Aurora, Ohio, has been fighting for years to keep an asphalt trail out of the way of a proposed electric transmission line.

Now, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, construction on the first phase of the Aurora Trail could begin this year, the Akron Beacon Journal reports.

The 2.8-mile trail will run from Chamberlain Road to State Route 82, and it's designed to be accessible to people with disabilities.

"The Aurora Trail project is born from years of negotiating and planning, and we were fortunate to receive a permanent recreational easement over the entire Norfolk Southern right-of-way as part of our settlement with FirstEnergy when it purchased the right-of-way for its transmission line project," Aurora Mayor Ann Womer Benjamin says in a press release.

The trail will go through the historic Station District, where the original Aurora Station burned down in 1904 and was replaced with a depot that stands today, the Record-Journal reports.

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