Year 2012 in review, January to June

January

Council To Test The Waters For New Pool

SIDNEY – When approached about the condition of the city’s public pool a few months back, Mayor Wendall Gaston realized things weren’t going swimmingly.

“It’s been remarkable that the pool has been able to stay open,” Gaston said, “but it’s getting old enough where the repairs are becoming a problem. And one of these years, we’re going to be told, ‘You know, we just can’t put it back together again.’”

Saddled with that prospect, Gaston was asked to spearhead a pool committee. That organization, with five months under its collective belt, will beg...