MOSCOW, OH (FOX19) – The Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati will unveil a program Friday to make $5,000,000 in grants to help people whose homes were damaged by the March 2 tornados in Ohio and Kentucky. 

Homeowners are eligible for up to $20,000 toward reconstruction or repair of a home, or acquisition of a new one.  Details will be unveiled by the FHLBank’s David Hehman Friday morning in Moscow.

The FHLBank is a wholesale lender providing housing finance and economic development products and services to 741 member institutions located in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. Chartered by the U.S. Congress, the FHLBank is one of 12 district cooperative banks wholly owned by its members and does not receive taxpayer dollars.

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BATAVIA, OH (FOX19) – The Village of Moscow has the highest dollar amount of damage and Tate Township has the most buildings damaged in the latest assessment of damage in Clermont County caused by Friday’s tornado.

Clermont County building inspectors have now reassessed several structures impacted by the March 2, 2012 tornado and severe weather that impacted the county.  A total of 303 buildings or structures were impacted in Franklin Township, Tate Township, Washington Township, and the Village of Moscow.  The assessment indicates that 55 structures were destroyed, 28 suffered major damage, 153 had minor damage, and 67 sustained slight damage.  The estimated value of the structures impacted by the storms is $14.8 million with a total estimated damage loss of $3.8 million.

UNION TOWNSHIP, CLERMONT COUNTY, OH (FOX19) - Cincinnati Nature Center (CNC) says The Krippendorf Estate has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places.  The announcement made the first week in July recognized CNC for both its unique landscape as well as the Krippendorf Lodge, after review by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board and the National Park Service.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of properties recognized by the federal government as worthy of preservation for their local, state, or national significance in American history, architecture, engineering, or culture (Ohio Historical Society).  For a property to be eligible to qualify for the National Register, the property should be at minimum fifty years old, retain its basic historic integrity and meet one of the four established National Register criteria: 1) the property must have significance for its association with broad patterns of history 2) ha