Hazelwood residents want their community center renovated — not razed

No one in Hazelwood believes the community center is ideal. The white brick building squats at the corner of Oak and Idalia Avenues, where longtime resident Jesse Maxwell said its TV and secondhand foosball table welcome just a single visitor every hour the building is open. Those hours, she added, are sparse.  However, many residents of the historically black neighborhood said at a Thursday night Blue Ash City Council meeting they'd rather have that than the replacement the city is considering.