I plan to vote for the Bellevue Public Library tax levy on May 4 because the library saves my family money while fulfilling our individual needs. Keeping our teenager entertained at no cost is not impossible! He always looks forward to Game On! @ BPL, utilizing the free WiFi and searching through the DVD collection.

Norwalk Schools maintenance employee Paul Brown, 52, of Wakeman had worked for the school district since 1983 in various positions, including substitute bus driver and food truck driver.

By State Rep. TERRY BOOSE R-Norwalk For the sake of "historic" health care reform, are you willing to suffer higher taxes, sacrifice your liberties, and diminish the quality of your family's health care?

I support health care reform for very personal reasons. I hope no other child in this country has to grow up suffering the many illnesses I and other children who lived in poverty without medical care endured -- children whose parents had no insurance, no way to pay for a doctor's visit, and families that never heard of a well child doctor's visit. Patricia Sowders Sandusky

Thumbs UP to smaller servings of government pork, according to Citizens Against Government Waste.

By MELISSA TOPEY topey@sanduskyregister.com SANDUSKY An 8-year-old boy was taken to the hospital as a precaution after being hit by a van when he apparently ran out onto McKelvey Street.

Cedar Fair's Apollo project suffered from a failure to launch, after unitholders forced an abort.

By RUFUS G.W. SANDERS, Register columnist What an impact the presidency of Barack Obama has had on this country! He has already left quite a legacy.

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.