Sunday, November 22, 2015

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  • Columbus school’s staff must get training to spot need for special education | The Columbus Dispatch

    Columbus school’s staff must get training to spot need for special education | The Columbus Dispatch
    The state has ordered the entire administrative and teaching staff at a Columbus middle school to undergo training in identifying warning signs for behavioral disabilities among students after they suspended an unruly sixth-grader for 70 days last school year.Under federal law, the student at Medina Middle School instead should have been evaluated for special-education services, according to a state report submitted to Columbus School Superintendent Dan Good last month.The student’s offense..
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  • Local NAACP seeks return to stability

    A recorded phone message at the Ohio NAACP headquarters leaves callers with the missive: “Remember, the struggle continues.”These days that is one of the few messages that black residents and members of the Columbus branch of the NAACP say they hear from their state office.Lack of support from the state and national offices has left the local chapters tattered in Ohio’s three largest cities.“They have been struggling for some time,” said Cheye Williams, a member of the Columbus NAACP for ne..
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  • Mifflin Township neighborhood replacing hauling water with...

    Mifflin Township neighborhood replacing hauling water with...
    There’s clean water for Zoey Van Gundy’s fish tank, and the adults in her house don’t have to worry about running out of water for the big family gathering this Thanksgiving.Flush at will: City water has finally arrived in Leonard Park.The first homes in the Mifflin Township enclave to hook up to Columbus lines were connected during the past few weeks.For some of the 100-plus residents of the neighborhood at the southeast corner of Agler and Stelzer roads, it’s the first water in decades th..
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  • Pinched by deductibles, some forgo medical care

    Pinched by deductibles, some forgo medical care
    Christina Heath manages a branch of a medical-equipment firm. Her husband, Thomas, works in information-technology security for a local company.Despite those two good jobs, the Grove City woman has been putting off an MRI and back surgery for two years, citing the anticipated price tag: more than $6,000.“They’ve already told me that it’s getting worse, not better,” Mrs. Heath, 53, said of her back. “I’ve got to get this done, but I just don’t know where I’m going to come up with $6,000.”The..
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  • Legislators aim to further limit ticketing powers of Brice

    Legislators aim to further limit ticketing powers of Brice
    State legislators are taking another swing at the village of Brice, where a one-person police department continues to aggressively ticket motorists despite the village having lost its mayor’s court and dispatching services from the Franklin County sheriff.Complaints about the ticket-writing practices of Brice and a handful of other villages whose budgets are largely supported by ticket revenue prompted lawmakers nearly three years ago to prohibit villages with populations under 200 from ope..
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  • Michigan State is Urban Meyer's new Alabama, which means Ohio...

    Michigan State is Urban Meyer's new Alabama, which means Ohio...
    COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Urban Meyer has been asked to relive 2009 time and again, but Saturday evening after a 17-14 loss to Michigan State, standing at a postgame news conference and looking nearly sick to his stomach, Meyer had to be reliving that season in body, mind and spirit, not just words.Because he had just met his new Alabama again, and once again Mark Dansabantonio had ended his dreams.To recap: In 2009, Meyer was defending a national championship for a second time after Florida's 2008 titl..
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  • Jerry Glick, German Village booster, dies at 81

    Jerry Glick, a stalwart in the German Village neighborhood and ardent Ohio State Buckeyes fan, died late Saturday night his close friends said.He was 81.Glick, who attended nearly every Ohio State football game for more than 70 years, also was instrumental in cleaning up his neighborhood.Glick was instrumental in the development of Frank Fetch Park near the 200 block of Beck Street in German Village. His close friends said Glick loved the park and spent many hours maintaining the area.“He w..
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  • 'Jeopardy!' college-show wannabes pumped at tryout

    'Jeopardy!' college-show wannabes pumped at tryout
    For Emily Bingham, this was it: final Jeopardy.The Dayton native and Wright State University senior majoring in marketing and literature has tried out three times for theJeopardy!college tournament but never made it to a formal testing-and-audition session.“I was ecstatic,” Bingham, 22, said on Saturday at Le Meridien Columbus, The Joseph hotel in the Short North. “I never passed the test before. I’m a senior. This is my last chance.”She was participating in the last of three tryouts in whi..
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  • Michael Arace commentary | Weekend showcases city's diverse...

    Michael Arace commentary | Weekend showcases city's diverse...
    The Columbus sports scene in the 1990s was a clash of petty fiefdoms.Leaders at the great state university, in order to protect their hegemony, did everything in their power to scuttle the Downtown arena project.A group attempting to land an NHL expansion team split apart and launched lawsuits hither and yon. Lamar Hunt, jettisoned from the group, used his own money to build the country’s first soccer-specific stadium — good on him, good for us — but he was essentially ostracized by the cit..
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  • Musical remains faithful to Dr. Seuss story about Grinch's redemption

    Musical remains faithful to Dr. Seuss story about Grinch's redemption
    Broadway musicals typically don’t showcase the villain in the leading role, much less the title.ButDr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musicalis meant to be naughty — and nice.Broadway in Columbus and the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts will present the holiday-season tour, opening Tuesday at the Ohio Theatre.“Dr. Seuss is wonderfully subversive — naughty in the best sense of the word,” said author-lyricist Timothy Mason, who met Seuss in 1980 after adapting one of t..
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