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The city of Akron has announced that modifications to the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project are expected to save the city around $30 million.

"I'm pleased to report that yesterday the federal court entered the first amendment to Akron's orginal 2014 consent decrees, allowing for two major modifications." said Mayor Dan Horrigan outside of the Main Outfall Sewer Cap on Riverview Road.

The location of Wednesday morning's press conference is the center of the first modification in the CSO plan. Horrigan said the first modification to the plan would eliminate the need to build a "parallel interceptor sewer"on Riverview Road. That modification alone is expected to save the city $30 million. Horrigan says the city has been able to save around $57 million on the CSO project this year.

Horrigan said the modifications to the plan are expected to help bring down the costs to rate payers, but details on when rate payers would see the decrease were not released.

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The city of Cuyahoga Falls is looking for a new city logo -- and they're asking community members to help pick it out.

The city teamed up with a design company to develop the new logo, along with local art and graphic design students from Woodridge and Cuyahoga Falls high schools. City officials even enlisted the help of longtime residents to find out what Cuyahoga Falls means to them.

"I think the important part is the process," said Mayor Don Walters. "It's not my logo. I'm one vote. But it's the logo of the city and the residents actually get to pick that."

They've narrowed it down to three possible logos and have now put it in the hands of community members to pick out the favorite. The logo with the majority of votes wins, but officials say it will not replace the city seal.

"The city seal will still appear on a lot of the governemetn documents, however, the logo can still appear on the website, it can appear on letterheads and a lot of things that we do," said Walters. "So we'll deplete our existing supplies on some of the materials and then add the new logo when it's finalized."

Residents have until June 29th to vote. The new city logo will be unveiled on Friday, July 1, during the Riverfront Concert Series.

On the web: http://www.cityofcf.com/mycflogo