Too bad it became, if only briefly, a political football. City Commissioner Julie Farrar had a simple enough idea: a walk of fame of sorts, with bricks commemorating the achievements of local student athletes, in one of Sandusky's numerous parks. For starters, each brick in the walkway would recognize a former state champion.

Gloria Kattouah writes that we are a Christian nation. My acquaintances who are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or atheists would strongly disagree with that statement, and would cite the U.S. Constitution for support. We are a nation built upon a foundation of Judeo-Christian laws and tradition, we have religious freedom in our private lives, but we have no established religion. Would Ms.

It never made sense: Erie County, whose unemployment rate rose, didn't qualify for federal Recovery Bonds because, through a statistical fluke, the number of officially unemployed people went down.

A tax increase can take many forms. For the owners of the former Maui Sands water park at Ohio 2 and U.S. 250 in Perkins Township, it was a whopping increase of almost $127,000 based on the property valuation used to assess property taxes in 2009.

I am an American, born and bred in Sandusky. I lived in a fine land where doctors were plentiful (if you could afford them), medicines were cutting edge (if you could afford them) and insurance was at your fingertips (if you were lucky enough to get a high paying job or work for McDonald's which had a large group plan, otherwise you were going to pay a massive amount for healthcare).

Normally, our reaction to the news of another study is a big yawn. But this study is a promise of work to be done. The state has OK'd $900,000 to pay for an engineering study of safety and traffic-flow improvements to be done along the Milan Road business and retail corridor, from Sandusky to Bogart Road.

To the person or persons responsible for stealing my large blue Easter egg from the side of my home in broad daylight in the afterno

President Obama recently authorized the killing of a Muslim-American citizen suspected of having connections with al-Qaeda. There ar

The Margaretta Board of Education and Ed Kurt have done much to be fiscally responsible. They consolidated the elementary buildings saving the district $300,000 annually, consolidated bus routes, and positions have been eliminated through attrition. They have been forced to be fiscally responsible because of drastic cuts in state and federal funding.