The dogs and the cats are being prepped to be nice instead of naughty when the Erie County Humane Society hosts its annual Christmas Open House from 5-8 p.m. Thursday at the shelter, 1911 Superior St.

If you’re sitting at a computer with an Internet connection, you never have to be without holiday music.

Erie County has pinned much of its hopes for economic revival upon NASA Plum Brook Station, which is expected to expand its operations to support Constellation, NASA’s effort to develop a new generation of space rockets, the Ares, to replace the space shuttle and to send astronauts back to the Mo

My headline refers not to our nation as a whole, but to The Nation magazine, a left wing magazine and Web site that has named U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, one of its "Most Valuable Progressives of 2008."

Yesterday, I was tapped to write what might be termed an “obituary feature” story for the paper, an article about Sue Reardon, a longtime Sandusky Library employee with a strong interest in history and the arts.

U.S. Sen. George Voinovich’s announcement that he won’t seek another term reminded me of when he came to visit the Sandusky Register a couple of years ago.

Every third Saturday of the month, NASA Glenn Research Station (located at Cleveland Hopkins airport) has a special program at its visitor center.

I’m assuming our new president is busy trying to figure out a way to get out of the war in Iraq, just as he promised during his campaign, but don’t forget that we’re actually in the middle of two wars. I’m unclear on what’s going to happen with the apparently endless war in Afghanistan.

The official White House Web site has already changed. While the new administration obviously has just begun posting material to the site, there’s already an official blog with several items.