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Woman leaves home 12 hours after evacuations

Imag­ine being one of the 70 res­i­dents — many senior cit­i­zens — who were roused from their beds by heavy pound­ing on the front door last Thurs­day about 11 p.m. When…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Two charged in Friday evening crash

Dur­ing snowy con­di­tions Fri­day evening, a crash occurred on Rt. 18 near Pitts Road in Welling­ton Township. Around 8 p.m., the Welling­ton Fire Dis­trict and the Ohio State High­way Patrol…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Iron Designing suffers losses due to evacuation

While a gas leak didn’t stop busi­ness as usual for most of Welling­ton, one com­pany was closed for a week and the own­ers are wor­ried about lost income and clients.…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

WHS participating in second annual Community Service Day

For the sec­ond year in a row, Welling­ton High School stu­dents will be spend­ing a day help­ing the community. Stu­dents and staff mem­bers are busy plan­ning the sec­ond annual Com­mu­nity…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Township not facing issues with gas leak

Despite the gas spill clean-up efforts around the Welling­ton Town­ship garage, the town­ship hasn’t been affected much. Town­ship trustee Dale McAvena said many have been mis­in­formed about where the spill…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

McCormick K-Kids numbers continue to grow

K-Kids — a ser­vice orga­ni­za­tion for ele­men­tary school kids — was started a year ago at McCormick Mid­dle School and now it is the largest K-Kids chap­ter in the country.…

Jan 19 2012 / No Comment / Read More »
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Sports News

Dukes win big again against Firelands

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The Dukes fol­lowed up Friday’s win against Black River with…

Jan 12 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »

Defensive intesity leads Dukes to win

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A rivalry bas­ket­ball game between Welling­ton and Black River Fri­day…

Jan 12 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »

Dukes flying high after seventh straight win

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The Dukes bas­ket­ball team is hot, win­ning their sev­enth straight…

Jan 5 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »

Two wrestlers place at Medina Tournament

Last week, the Dukes wrestling team com­peted in a tour­na­ment…

Jan 5 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »


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AP News

Taxpayers still owed $132.9B from bailout: report

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — A gov­ern­ment watch­dog says U.S. tax­pay­ers are still owed $132.9 bil­lion that com­pa­nies haven't repaid from the finan­cial bailout, and some of that will never be recovered.   The bailout launched at…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

New-home purchases fall, 2011 worst ever for sales

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Fewer Amer­i­cans bought new homes in Decem­ber, mak­ing 2011 the worst sales year on record.   The Com­merce Depart­ment said Thurs­day new-home sales fell last month to a sea­son­ally adjusted annual pace…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Ohio struggles to enforce anti-dropout law

COLUM­BUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has a tough time enforc­ing an anti-dropout law that Pres­i­dent Barack Obama would like every state to have.   In his State of the Union speech Tues­day night, the pres­i­dent chal­lenged…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Navy SEAL raid in Somalia shows campaign ahead

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — The Navy SEAL oper­a­tion that freed two West­ern hostages in Soma­lia is rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Obama administration's pledge to build a smaller, more agile mil­i­tary force that can carry out sur­gi­cal coun­tert­er­ror­ist…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

19,000 deer shot during Ohio muzzleloader season

COLUM­BUS, Ohio (AP) — State offi­cials say hunters killed more than 19,000 deer dur­ing Ohio's four-day muz­zle­loader sea­son, which ended Tuesday.   The tally was 19,251, up from the pre­vi­ous year. The pre­lim­i­nary total showed…

Jan 12 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »

Ohio gets C+ on national education report card

COLUM­BUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's edu­ca­tion sys­tem earns a C+ on an indus­try publication's national report card.   The state did bet­ter than the national aver­age grade of a C in Edu­ca­tion Week's "Qual­ity Counts…

Jan 12 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »


Sid Comings

Charisma makes politicial rallies fun

Prior to the 2008 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, I had attended only one polit­i­cal rally. That rally took place dur­ing the fall of 1968 when Minnesota’s Demo­c­ra­tic Sen­a­tor Hubert Humphrey, run­ning against Repub­li­can Richard Nixon, spoke at a…

Jan 13 2012 / Read More »
Rob Swindell

Seculars know good, evil, too

I was dis­ap­pointed to read syn­di­cated colum­nist Cal Thomas’s attack on not only the late Christo­pher Hitchens, but also on non-theists in general. While Thomas acknowl­edges that Hitchens was smart and witty, he seems to take…

Jan 13 2012 / Read More »
Penny Case

Hearty soup makes warm memories

Can you believe it? It’s 2012 and I hope things will be bet­ter for all of us. We’re lucky so far that we haven’t had lots of snow. My sis­ter Bon­nie, who lives in Indi­ana, says…

Jan 13 2012 / Read More »
Pat Sumpter

Christmas is for kids, new traditions

Dear Friends, On our very first Christ­mas my true love gave to me, my engage­ment ring. On our sec­ond year at Christ­mas my true love gave to me a lit­tle house on Jones Street, and a baby boy.…

Jan 13 2012 / Read More »
Pat Price

Columnist isn't afraid to write

A recent gift I received from Steve John­son has me mesmerized. I had casu­ally men­tioned how much I missed Mike Royko columns and Steve, being Steve, remem­bered that and found a col­lec­tion of Royko’s writ­ings at…

Dec 19 2011 / Read More »
Ask the Doctor

It's all about the flu in winter

Board cer­ti­fied in Inter­nal Med­i­cine, Dr. Saima Iqbal is ded­i­cated to pro­vid­ing indi­vid­u­al­ized patient care to opti­mize health main­te­nance and dis­ease pre­ven­tion. She believes in being a patient advo­cate and an inte­gral part of the community.…

Jan 18 2012 / Read More »
Fran Blank

Fran Blank is a gar­dener who lives in Brighton Town­ship who occa­sion­ally sub­mits columns.…

Jan 13 2012 / Read More »
Dave Cotton

Season 49: Success marred by tragedy

In our 49th sea­son, we opened in New York with “Lost in Yonkers,” moved to Maine for “The Whales of August,” fol­lowed by the French Riv­iera for “The Boy Friend,” back to the USA for “All…

Jul 28 2011 / Read More »

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