Take it a year at a time
We applaud Zion Community Development Corporation and their idea for a community garden at Legion Field. Especially in these troubled economic times, a community garden can help residents defray the costs of providing nutritious meals to their families.
The idea of a community garden meshes well ... CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY
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Take school talk slow
The Oberlin school community has begun the discussion necessary to achieve consensus on whether to build new a building or buildings. But that conversation started out on a wrong foot with perhaps too much talk about "when" and not so much about "why."
The "why" of the discussion is contained in ... CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY
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Help kids help in Haiti
Who among us can not be moved by the effort of the kindergarten classes at Eastwood Elementary School in spearheading a drive to build a permanent home for a displaced family in Haiti?
They, like the rest of us, saw the devastation brought to that country by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake last month. ... CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY
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Let college try again
Lost in the uproar over the plan has been the reasoning and an omission by the planning commission. Some of the reasoning is sound, some strikes us as silly, and the omission leaves us with the feeling the commission was interested in a quick solution if not the right one.
Commission chair Marily ... CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY
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Historic meeting tonight
Editor's note: Due to inclement weather, the Oberlin school board meeting scheduled for Feb. 9 was canceled.
In the news business, we often get the sense that events we cover as news will later be looked upon as history, even historic. Such an event is tonight's meeting of the Oberlin board of ... CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY
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Haiti needs our help
The pictures flashed on the television screen are troubling. They haunt us in our sleep.
The devastation of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti rivals almost anything we can imagine. According to latest estimates, 80,000 people have died as a result of the quake and the difficult living conditi ... CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY
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