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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We don't need bigotry
In a time when American troops are in Iraq, putting their lives on the line to end sectarian violence, we find it most disheartening to hear of similar intolerance here in Amherst of all places.
Seven-year-old Ky'ra Hall was selling candy door to door, trying to raise money to go to California in ...
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Youthful crimes costly
We, with Mr. MacAfee from the musical "Bye Bye Birdie," are wondering what's the matter with kids today. Our front page this week is full of stories of teens and young adults engaged in stupid criminal activity.
Some incidents, like 19-year-old Joseph Gargasz and his 16-year-old passenger imperso ...
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Keep downtown safe
Downtown Amherst is a wonderful place to spend an afternoon. While downtown a person could pick up some antiques, have lunch at one of the fine establishments, then take in a movie at the cinema, all within easy walking distance.
Unfortunately this shopper/diner/movie-goer would risk life and lim ...
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Did you pass the test?
September is National Preparedness Month, and Sunday's storm served as a kind of mid-term exam. Grade your own test.
With winds gusting to hurricane strength, did children know to stay indoors, out of the path of flying debris? Sadly one Lorain boy was killed when a tree branch fell on him.
By ...
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Voting a precious right
The political parties have had their national conventions, and the signs taunting political parties and positions on a variety of issues are popping up on front lawns around town. In the coming weeks we will be announcing our deadline for publishing election-related letters to the editor.
But ano ...
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Give only needed help
For many of us, the news reports coming out of Louisiana of impending disaster from Hurricane Gustav brought back memories of Hurricane Katrina just three years ago. We remembered the weak, delayed response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and vowed we would do something to help this time ...
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