Here's to the winners
If everyone likes a winner, there's a lot to like about Amherst lately. A quick perusal of our pages shows win after win, from the high school boys basketball team to city finances, from the junior high Science Olympiad team to the junior high school choir.
The basketball team, with only two play ...
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Consider cost to serve
The Amherst school board is looking to fill a seat vacated by the resignation of Nick Dimacchia. And while we would encourage any resident of the school district interested in filling that seat, we would also caution them to consider Dimacchia's reason for resigning.
The work of a school board me ...
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Haiti effort commended
When we heard of third-grader Maddy O'Hara's efforts to help the people of earthquake ravaged Haiti, we were happy to tell her story.
O'Hara learned about the devastation caused by the earthquake in school and by watching the news. But rather than shaking her head in dismay, she thought about how ...
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Patio deserves a shot
We applaud the plan of Quesadillas Restaurant owner J.C. Torres to build a patio adjacent to his restaurant on Church Street. And we encourage city council to approve the plan when they consider it on third and final reading in two weeks.
Surely the plan is unusual, since the patio will be built ...
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Vote count incomplete
The Amherst Public Library's 1.17-mill bond issue failed in the Tuesday, Feb. 2 special election by a whopping 15,194 votes, notwithstanding the unofficial vote tallies listed by the Lorain County board of elections.
According to the vote count on the night of the special election, Issue 1 lost w ...
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Take lesson from sting
We would be saddened if one local bar had been cited for serving alcohol to persons under the legal drinking age. We would be shocked to learn of two or three such establishments.
But we are absolutely aghast to learn of five local bars serving beer to an underage police informant. According to r ...
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