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Old Union School property now in Design Review District

By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Edi­tor Galion city coun­cil approved plac­ing the old Union School prop­erty (the for­mer Galion Mid­dle School site) inside the Design Review Dis­trict #1 dur­ing its Jan.…

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Scott Kibler addresses commissioners FEATURE

Commissioners weekly roundup

By John A. Lizotte Inquirer Cor­re­spon­dent The Craw­ford County Board of Com­mis­sion­ers met in open ses­sion on Tues­day, Jan. 24. The com­mis­sion­ers approved a res­o­lu­tion to accept bids for the con­struc­tion…

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City updates: Planning, Financial, Zoning

By Rachel Mendell Finan­cial Plan­ning and Super­vi­sion Commission The Finan­cial Plan­ning and super­vi­sion com­mis­sion of Galion met Jan. 26 for nine min­utes for the pur­pose of approv­ing bond rollover for…

Jan 27 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

The Galion Public Library is now open

You may have noticed that the Galion Pub­lic Library has been closed most of this week. You may have gone to the door, just to find out that it was…

Jan 27 2012 / No Comment / Read More »
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Sports

Will a Cleveland team ever sign a blockbuster free agent again?

Bob Frantz Sports@News-Herald.com,writer “Indi­ans reach six-year, $120 mil­lion agree­ment with…

Jan 27 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Schiano hired by Tampa Bay Bucs as head coach

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buc­ca­neers have hired…

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Galion hoopsters win fourth game in 12 days

By JON KLEINKNECHT Inquirer Sports Editor sports@galioninquirer.com And the Galion…

Jan 27 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Memorial service culminates 3-day mourning of Paterno

STATE COLLEGE, Penn­syl­va­nia (AP) — A capac­ity crowd of more…

Jan 27 2012 / No Comment / Read More »


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AP News

Obama speech echoes in town with failed factory

By Alan Scher Zagier, Asso­ci­ated Press MOBERLY, Mo. (AP) — After 19 years run­ning state unem­ploy­ment offices across north­ern Mis­souri, Steve Moore can rat­tle off the names of shut­tered fac­to­ries in this old rail­road town with ease. There’s…

Jan 25 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

FACT CHECK: Obama pushes plans that flopped before

By Calvin Wood­ward, Asso­ci­ated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a wish list, not a to-do list. Pres­i­dent Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands…

Jan 25 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

Obama to Republicans: Game on

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, as Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner, right, listen. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres­i­dent Barack Obama deliv­ered an election-year broad­side to Repub­li­cans: Game on. The GOP, from Con­gress to the cam­paign trail, sig­naled it’s ready for the fight. In his third State of the Union address, Obama…

Jan 25 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

House GOP seeks unity in election-year challenge

BALTIMORE (AP) — House Repub­li­can lead­ers pleaded for elu­sive unity from the dis­parate fac­tions in their party as they pur­sue a dual election-year prize of retain­ing their major­ity and deny­ing Pres­i­dent Barack Obama a sec­ond term.…

Jan 20 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

TV station covers Ohio bribery trial with puppets

CLEVELAND (AP) — It’s “Sesame Street” meets the unseemly side of politics. With cam­eras barred from a high-profile cor­rup­tion trial, a tele­vi­sion sta­tion has pup­pets act­ing out the sometimes-steamy tes­ti­mony about hook­ers, gam­bling and sex­u­ally…

Jan 20 2012 / No Comment / Read More »

26 homes lost in Reno fire and 2,000 evacuated

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Reno hasn’t seen a win­ter this dry in more than 120 years. So res­i­dents wel­comed a fore­cast that a storm was due to blow across the Sierra Nevada this week. Instead, as many…

Jan 20 2012 / No Comment / Read More »


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Ken Parrott

Water and Wings

By KEN PARROTT Out­doors Writer Hunters took 19,251 deer dur­ing Ohio’s muz­zle­loader sea­son, Jan­u­ary 7–10, with Coshoc­ton County again lead­ing the state with 722 deer checked. In 2011, a pre­lim­i­nary total of 16,934 deer were taken…

Jan 21 2012 / Read More »
Paul Pfeifer

Handicap Reimbursement Program

BY: JUSTICE PAUL E. PFEIFER Should hyper­ten­sion be con­sid­ered a “hand­i­cap” that is eli­gi­ble for work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion reim­burse­ment to employ­ers? That’s the ques­tion that was at the heart of a case that came before us here,…

Jan 21 2012 / Read More »
Bob Garver

“Underworld: Awakening”

“Under­world: Awakening” By Bob Garver Last week in my review of the lousy “Con­tra­band”, I wrote that Jan­u­ary and Feb­ru­ary gen­er­ally con­sist of a mis­er­able slate of new releases. The prin­ci­ple is that if a movie…

Jan 23 2012 / Read More »
Noel Lizotte

Apron Free Cooking - Zesty Cheese Soup

By Noel Lizotte Jan­u­ary is a cold weather month in much of the coun­try. Soups find their way on my table quite often through­out the win­ter for the sim­ple rea­son that they are warm. It helps…

Jan 18 2012 / Read More »
Rachel Mendell

The Ten Best Things about being an Editor

By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Edi­tor Last Sun­day, my pas­tor was preach­ing on how man can, indeed, with God’s help, change his life. Near the begin­ning of the mes­sage he said this: “Dr. Paul S. Rees, in his…

Jan 4 2012 / Read More »
Sarah Einselen

New Year's resolutions

By Sarah Einselen Why wait till Jan­u­ary 1st to make a New Year’s resolution? What’s so spe­cial about Jan. 1? It’s not mag­i­cal. If I resolve to reform my life start­ing on that day, I have…

Jan 4 2012 / Read More »
Guest Columnist

The Preferred Definition Of Public Servant

What visual images cas­cade through your mind when you think of a pub­lic ser­vant? Is it a fire­man dash­ing into a burn­ing build­ing to save a help­less child? Or is it a police offi­cer pro­tect­ing us…

Jan 27 2012 / Read More »
Guest Columnist

Ask Aunt Abby

Aunt Abby: I have dili­gently observed my socks for the past week. The first few days they kept mov­ing closer together, but thwarted every attempt at catch­ing them in action. Soon, they clung together with lit­tle…

Jan 17 2012 / Read More »

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