AMANDA - Amanda-Clearcreek school board members will ask voters to approve a five-year, 1 percent earned income tax on the May ballot to save the district from making more than $500,000 in cuts later this year.

PORT CLINTON: Mary Jane Bacak, 79, of Port Clinton, passed away unexpectedly on February 2, 2010.

AMANDA -- Even after a proposed reduction of what could amount to a $500 pay-to-participate fee for Amanda-Clearcreek student-athletes, Karen Genders is concerned about the long-term health of sports in the district.

AMANDA -- An Amanda man was involved in a one-vehicle crash north of Tarlton around 8 p.m. Tuesday.

LANCASTER: Billie Ann Frazier, 59, of Lancaster, passed away Thursday, January 28, 2010 at Grant Medical Center.

AMANDA -- Michelle Van Horn kneeled mat-side, her hands twisting and contorting in ways she hoped her brother would understand.

The American Red Cross in Fayette County has released the names of those who will be honored at its' 2010 Hometown Heroes Award and Breakfast ceremony to be held Tuesday, March 23rd at the Mahan Building in Washington Court House.

Friday, January 29, 2010 10:28 AM WCLT News Staff Four teachers at Amanda-Clearcreek will be laid off in April but could return of voters pass a levy in May.

AMANDA -- Four Amanda-Clearcreek teachers will be formally laid off in April, but could be rehired if residents in the district approve a levy for the schools this May.

HAYESVILLE -- Church officials at Journey Life Center plan to take up a collection for a Mifflin area family that lost nearly everything in a fire Wednesday night.

AMANDA -- The Amanda-Clearcreek Board of Education will conduct a special meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday in Room 1100 of the district office, 328 E. Main St., Amanda.

Looking to close a $12.7 million funding shortfall, the Olentangy school district has announced a package of salary freezes and other cost-saving measures it will enact next school year.

AMANDA - Ron Hinton had seen it happen too many times to other coaches to let himself fall victim to it.

AMANDA - Ron Hinton, Amanda-Clearcreek's head football coach for the past 29 seasons, will be named Chillicothe's newest football coach on Monday.

By PUNCH SHAW ARLINGTON - The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is a fine mix of saboteurs, slashers and slapstick.

AMANDA -- It's not every year when Amanda-Clearcreek Principal Fred Boring proudly can say one of his graduating seniors was nominated to a U.S. service academy by a congressman.

AMANDA - When Jessica Fager first received word of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, her immediate thoughts turned to whether her missionary friends in Haiti were still alive.

AMANDA -- The Amanda-Clearcreek Board of Education will decide at its February meeting whether to place an earned income tax or traditional income tax levy request on the May ballot.

More than a quarter of the low-risk babies born in Ohio to first-time mothers are born by a Caesarean section.

LANCASTER: Francis Hughes Henderly, 81, of Lancaster, passed away Wednesday, January 6, 2010, at his residence.