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Smokestacks in Columbus to come down this morning

Spectators will have to find their own vantage points if they want to watch officials demolish three smokestacks in Columbus this morning.

Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman and others are expected to help detonate charges on each of the 272-foot-tall smokestacks at 10:00 am.

Officials say visitors will not be allowed on the site on the city's south side just east of Interstate 71.

The stacks are part of a $200 dollar trash-burning power plant that opened in June 1983. Officials voted to close the plant in 1994.

Robert Wilson lives in the area. He says the demolition of thecentral Ohio landmark is the end of an era.

Officials say workers should begin demolishing the plant's main building in about a month.

Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.