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Oberlin College frosh deliver on pact to win title

It’s been 45 years now since two fresh­men Ober­lin Col­lege room­mates put a pledge in writ­ing that before they grad­u­ated they would win the Ohio Ath­letic Con­fer­ence cham­pi­onship. Three years…

Jan 23 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Fire chief nixes investigation of paranormal

If there are any ghosts in the old Green Acres build­ing, their voices won’t be heard, at least for now. Oak­land Para­nor­mal — a para­nor­mal research group from Auburn Hills, Mich.…

Jan 20 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Small fire erupts in air handler at OHS

A small elec­tri­cal fire at Ober­lin High School forced the build­ing to be evac­u­ated last Wednes­day afternoon. Accord­ing to William Baylis, prin­ci­pal at the high school, there were no injuries…

Jan 5 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »

Barry Richard named school board president

Barry Richard was unan­i­mously selected as the new pres­i­dent of the Ober­lin City School Board for 2012 Tues­day night at the first school board meet­ing of the new year. Board mem­ber…

Jan 5 2012 / Comments Off / Read More »
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Sports News

Going streaking: Phoenix go for six straight Friday

The win streak is up to five. The Phoenix boys var­sity…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Phoenix try for 4th straight win Friday night

BB-Moore

After a slow start to the sea­son, the Phoenix var­sity…

Jan 20 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Girls earn win behind big game from Alston

When the offense for the Ober­lin girls var­sity bas­ket­ball team…

Dec 22 2011 / Comments Off / Read More »

Phoenix wrestling team holds own in tournament

The OHS Wrestling Phoenix opened up the Patriot Ath­letic Con­fer­ence…

Dec 22 2011 / Comments Off / Read More »


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AP News

Ohio Senate exploring idea repeal of election law

COLUM­BUS, Ohio (AP) — Sev­eral Repub­li­can state sen­a­tors have been review­ing for weeks the idea of repeal­ing Ohio's new elec­tions law that trims early vot­ing days in the pres­i­den­tial bat­tle­ground state and makes other elec­tion…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

CIA to pull officer from NYPD after internal probe

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — A CIA operative's unusual assign­ment inside the New York Police Depart­ment is being cut short after an inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion that crit­i­cized how the agency estab­lished its unprece­dented col­lab­o­ra­tion with city police, The…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Conn. mayor defends self after 'taco' quip

HART­FORD, Conn. (AP) — The Con­necti­cut mayor who made a quip about tacos when asked what he could do for his town's besieged Latino com­mu­nity has no plans to step down, though calls for his…

Jan 26 2012 / No Comment / 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 soups 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 not 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

Winter is time to worry about flu

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 20 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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