As a brand-new feature on MyHometownOhio, each Tuesday we will direct you to news articles, blog postings and websites that feature some aspect of Ohio preservation and revitalization. If you have items that you would like us to share with our readership in this section, please drop us an email.

Monday’s Mansfield News Journal included a front-page story on the proposed Woodland Historic Preservation District, which we profiled last week.

Progress Through Preservation, the local preservation organization in Akron, recently launched their new website.

There is some hope…just a glimmer… for the Kaufmann Brewery building in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine district, according to this story in this past weekend’s Cincinnati Business Courier. The Kaufmann building was included in the 2005 list of Ohio’s Most Endangered Historic Sites.

Save the date for the 2006 Ohio Farmland Preservation Summit, to be held on November 2 in Reynoldsburg.

The Knox County Memorial Theater in Mount Vernon is nearing completion of a $725,000 restoration project. Mount Vernon is also home to the Woodward Opera House, which bills itself as ‘America’s Oldest Authentic Nineteenth-Century Theater.”

Speaking of theaters, would you like to see a good movie and support the preservation of a historic opera house at the same time? During the remainder of September, the Hayesville Opera House in Ashland County is featuring the movies “Barnyard” and “How to Eat Fried Worms.”