NT issues a challenge
We at the News-Tribune are issuing a holiday challenge: We need to fill the shelves at Oberlin Community Services so OCS can serve our friends and neighbors in need. They need non-perishable food items, as well as cash donations, to fill their coffers. Their need is greater than ever, and we suspec ...
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Don't aid child obesity
We were glad to see the school board last week table a policy amendment that would waive the physical education requirement for high school students participating in two full seasons of an interscholastic sport, cheerleading, or marching band. Now we can hope the board will symbolically push themse ...
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Issue 28 is right choice
Going to the polls on Election Day Tuesday, perhaps your path will take you along one of the streets in town in need of repair. Perhaps you will go past the fire station and see the crowded apparatus bays, giving clues to the crowed conditions throughout the building.
Perhaps you will consider wa ...
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Settle uniform question
As we mentioned last year in this space, we support the concept of uniforms in the Oberlin schools. The issue raised its head again at last week's school board meeting, and we encourage the board to consider it thoughtfully.
While the survey presented at the board meeting provided some light into ...
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Vote yes on Issue 5
Among the annual barrage of political advertising this year, most of us have seen ads urging failure of state Issue 5. Some of these ads depict vacant, run down factories while claiming Issue 5 would result in the loss of 6,000 Ohio jobs.
In reality, Issue 5 deals with payday lending establishmen ...
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Be an informed voter
The annual Oberlin Community Candidates Night is quickly approaching. And while we have no candidates for local offices during this election, and the top names on the tickets -- John McCain and Barak Obama -- will not be there, we would encourage residents to make a point to attend.
Candidates wh ...
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Connect with POWER
Sometimes an idea makes so much sense we wonder why someone didn't think of it earlier. Such an idea is the plan by the grassroots group POWER (Providing Oberlin with Efficiency Responsibly) to use carbon credits to pay for making low-income housing more energy efficient.
As home heating costs in ...
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Initiative a perfect fit
Leave it to Oberlin to be at the forefront of efforts to reduce greenhouse gases by joining with much larger cities to create a market for energy-efficient retrofit products for existing homes. Over-achievement seems to be the hallmark of Oberlin.
Oberlin is seeking to join the Clinton Climate In ...
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Who will pay for idea?
The proposal is intriguing -- Oberlin plants 175 trees and Oberlin College plants 175 trees to symbolize the 175 years of history of both college and town. No doubt the idea will find supporters in our fair town.
And why not? For years the symbol of our town was a tree, the historic elm at the co ...
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It's time to display pride
Mark your calendars and prepare to participate in Pride Day, Saturday, May 17.
While we all appreciate the change of seasons, here in Northern Ohio winter's retreat often leaves behind a ravaged landscape, much like the "scorched earth" tactics of some retreating armies. The clean-up following th ...
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Reconsider B&B rules
Upon further reflection, we find the tabling of an ordinance exempting host homes from the zoning code's definition of bed and breakfast inns curious in light of other events at that city council meeting.
The curiosity comes with the emergency passage of a zoning code amendment that same night wh ...
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Don't take threat lightly
The threatening note found in the Oberlin High School library might have been a hoax, but the tension it generated and the police response to that unrest were very real.
We would hope school officials take this into account in determining the consequences the author of the note will face. Certain ...
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