By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Editor Book Review – Home Country: Drama, Dreams and Laughter from America’s Heartland, by Slim Randles, published by Rio Grande Books, www.LPDPress.com, available on Amazon and www.slimrandles.com A few months back I started getting the Home County columns free in my email inbox. I didn’t order them. They just showed up. […]
By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Editor It was about two years ago (May 31 to be exact) that I was called in to finish the June 1 edition of the Galion Inquirer as editor. The office had lost electricity, the servers were down, the staff was in shock. Since then I have learned a lot about being […]
By Rachel Mendell Is Dec. 21 the First Day of Winter or End of the World? If the Dooms Day Folks have it right, by Friday none of us will be here and the world will end. Somehow. Maybe that 6-mile-wide asteroid will change course and fly the remaining 4.3 million miles into the earth. Maybe Russia, […]
This week I received a few calls about folks going to the board of elections and requesting petitions to run for public office, the large majority of which want to run for mayor or city council. The problem is, the hard working people at the board of elections have no information. They don’t know which […]
By Rachel Mendell Monday night I attended another rehearsal of The Messiah, a production done each year during the first weekend in December. Choir members meet on Monday nights through November to work through a large portion of the pieces in the oratorio that Handel composed many years ago. This will be my seventh year of […]
From the Staff of the Galion Inquirer Newspapers were never created to be saved forever, ask any archivist. Newspapers must be carefully preserved. Once the paper is read, articles of interest cut out, pictures and other interesting points pasted in scrapbooks or passed along whole to a fellow reader. it is meant to be reused […]
In the October edition of Editor & Publisher the state of print media was given a “stable” rating. Many of the same subjects as in past editions are hashed out and rehashed including online only vs. online plus print, how much to charge for ads on a start up news site, new print technology (brighter, […]
By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Editor This newspaper has been called upon to deal with the issue of the racial slur uttered during an open meeting of the Galion City Council, Aug. 28. If we are to deal with this, then we must deal with the root issue. Galion is a racist town. Like it, or not, […]