When he died in 1995 at age 58 while battling cancer, Cleveland native Roger Zelazny was one of the most famous and well-loved science fiction writers in the world.

The Knights of Columbus were busy this morning cleaning up trash on Sandusky's west end:

Dan Kaman writes:

When the call went out for help, there was no shortage! 12 helpers, 12 bags of cans for the Knights of Columbus.

I just finished writing a column for the Sandusky Register newspaper about age-related changes and driving in later life.

An election turn off (for me anyway) in local elections is feeling like I don't really know the candidates.  This is ironic because you'd think that because it's a local election we'd be more familiar because the candidate is from our area.  Not always true.  In national elections you "know" the

This was a particularly tough week.

What concerns does the current generation in high school have about the future?

What scares your generation the most?

A friend recently turned me on to a process called "Appreciative Inquiry." It's been used successfully by companies like Roadway in Akron and major organizations like the US Navy to revitalize and change, and it strikes me as something that might be useful to the community.

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In what is being described as a unique situation in the ever increasingly dysfunctional government in Sandbox Ohio, city manager Matt DeKline has taken the drastic step of laying himself off in order to save money for the city of Sandbox.