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Excerpt: But voters aren't hearing the messages the way Perkins Schools superintendent Jim Gunner and the school board intend for them to be heard, and some residents, so angered by the inside millage switch, have become activists of sorts dogging the district's efforts to gain voter sup

Excerpt: Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with “twenty thousand times the force” of a political tract.

Get the Vermilion police blotter in today's Register

Vermilion Police

May 7, 2013
10:55 p.m. — 5300 block Ohio St., Nicholas Paradissis, 25, 700 block W. River Road, public indecency; walked naked down sidewalk.

Here is this week’s edition of Futures File, our weekly commodities wrap-up:
 
Coffee Prices Buzz Higher
 
Coffee prices have climbed for seven consecutive days, rising nearly 16 cents per pound (+12%).
 

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Sandusky Police

May 8, 2013
2:24 p.m. — 200 block Meigs St., man said live-in caretaker threatened his life, verbally abuses him, burned him last month; he later said caretaker was nice sometimes, so he may stay with him.

This week, Ohio's Yesterdays hosts a guest post from historicalnaturaldisasters.com, detailing the 1913 Great Dayton Flood.