By James Ewinger, The Cleveland Plain Dealer; September 4, 2018
AURORA, Ohio – The city is battling Norfolk Southern Railway and FirstEnergy over a railroad right-of-way that slices diagonally through the city.
The land has been idle for years, and Aurora wants to take it by eminent domain. The railroad, however, wants to sell it to FirstEnergy, which wants to erect giant transmission towers there.
The city wants to make the land part of a rail-to-trail system that would run through Mantua and link with a trail network stretching to southeast Ohio.
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