Brusky moving upward
Later this month, Amherst will bid a sad good-bye to councilman at-large Nick Brusky.
Brusky has been tapped to join the staff of state representative Terry Boose. Boose's gain is most certainly Amherst and Lorain County's loss.
Brusky's political ambition started early, running for the fourth ...
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Be merry but moderate
Tonight many of us will begin our holiday celebrations. Unfortunately for some, future Christmases will be reminders of the grief to be experienced in the coming days as the result of drunken driving.
According to the Ohio Department of Public Safety, during the Christmas holiday weekend period l ...
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Illicit games rob others
We were dismayed to hear of the raid on Sweeps Internet Cafe in which police confiscated computers and casino-style gambling machines. With limited exceptions for non-profit charities, casino-style gambling is illegal in Ohio, a point emphasized last month when voters across the state overwhelmingl ...
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How are you coping?
As we struggle through difficult economic times, we see two different responses, one sinister and one laudatory.
On the one hand we see a subject who deals with hard times by robbing banks. Obviously we don't know for certain the motives of the man who robbed the FirstMerit bank on Friday, but we ...
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All must pay fair share
The city of Amherst is suing a former resident for failure to pay income taxes to the city over a nine-year period. According to court records, the former resident -- a doctor -- owes more than $84,000 in back taxes, late fees, and interest, for missed income tax payments dating back to 1999.
The ...
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Be thankful anyway
As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, we might be hard pressed to find things for which to give thanks. Perhaps a historical viewpoint will help.
The Pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving in the New World represented less than half the number who had left England the year earlier. The ...
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Ice and snow, go slow
With the arrival of winter weather earlier this week, the police and fire scanner in our office came alive with dispatchers summoning officers to accident after accident. Certainly the only people who were happy about such events were the tow truck operators.
We would like to take this opportunit ...
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Make punishment fit
In a week when school officials should have been exultant about finally passing an emergency operating levy, the celebration was muted at Steele High School, where three freshmen face possible expulsion over preparing a "hit list."
We find the prospect difficult to consider that these students, j ...
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Thanks for the memories
We salute the Amherst Comets football team for an entertaining season, ended Friday in Twinsburg. While we would have liked to have seen them advance further in the playoffs, the time we had watching their exploits was as enjoyable as any in recent memory.
The Comets met with adversity when start ...
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Save schools this time
In the most recent report card from the state, the Amherst schools were given the new designation of "excellent with distinction." The rating is appropriate, since Amherst could earn the distinction of being the first district so rated to fall under state control.
The financial situation facing t ...
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Research state issues
Two weeks from today it will all be over. Finally, after what has seemed an eternity, the political ads on television will have ended as the country will have elected its next president, Ohio voters will have decided a number of important issues, and locally we will have decided the fate of the sch ...
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Vote yes on Issue 5
Among the annual barrage of political advertising this year, most of us have seen ads urging failure of state Issue 5. Some of these ads depict vacant, run down factories while claiming Issue 5 would result in the loss of 6,000 Ohio jobs.
In reality, Issue 5 deals with payday lending establishmen ...
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