Reader Comments

" Why do some of these people seem threaten by past Mayors? Their term is over, their influence is over,(if they ever had any). Everybody needs to step up to the present and deal with the issues that are destroying this town. "

" Upset you are right! There needs to be a investigation by the STATE! There we might find that the Mayor is right! "

" Looks like the State of Ohio needs to step and investigate the Mayor. Aberdeen is too nice of a town to let someone run it down. Mayor Renchen have been better off too not to listen to a former female Mayor!!!! "

" What caused council to turn there back on the Mayor? Maybe there is something wrong with the Mayor!! Here is your sign!!! "

" You know nothing, Councilman Larry Schlomer and Councilman Peter Chamness they have turn there back on the Mayor.These are the same guys who let jr lawrence and terry phillip and hugh hall lead them. "

" This comment is for everyone that does not live in Aberdeen. Why write nasty comments YOU DO NOT LIVE HERE so get a life and worry about your own town. "

" Aberdeen's issues are so multi-leveled Dr. Phil and Oprah could both have a season worth of episodes... the small town mentality of all the parties involved leads me to see the State of Ohio stepping in or Ripley eventually annexing what will be left of this small village after the real business at hand... you know, business that are hurting and residents will inadequate law enforcement protection
have rolled up and blown away are gone. Petty personal issues are for elections not elected people. Get it together, Aberdeen! "

" The Ripley swat team should just take over Aberdeen "

" Why does it have to be a conspiracy. Its wrong for another Councilman to insinuate this how professional. It sounds to me it was insinuated to take the focus off the problem in hand. Maybe the simple thing is the Mayor is not doing his job and council wants the public to know. which they should thats there job. I know Councilman Larry Schlomer and Councilman Peter Chamness. I believe they are the type of people who would stand up for what is right. If Councilman Schlomer and Councilman Chamness voted yes on the no confidence I believe there is a true issue at hand. The problem starts at the top. The Mayor is the head figure its his job to make sure all departments is working for the better of the community. It sounds to me if council are voting the Mayor no confidence there is a true leadership issue. "

" Who can blame Jeremy Germann for going to Wells, Minnesota? Good luck finding a new administrator. Maybe the village should hire someone with an elementary education background - he/she would could apply his/her experience working with the childish council. "

" What this Mayor needs is a new council to work with. "

" I just wonder if there is ever anything village business conducted/taken care of in the Aberdeen council meetings or if they are just held for people to vent, complain and run others down into the ground. "

" Yet once again the Aberdeen greats have made fools of themselves all over again. Will this foolishness never cease to exist? It would be quite the headline if any of these village officials made the newspaper reflecting a good light. And, what a shame to down Bobby Meadows and blame him for the present discord in the council matters. Has he not been going through enough with health issues? Blame can be spread ever so easily and truth is so hard to come by. All of you children should take a lesson in how to get along and run a village, not run a village into the ground. "

" I find it quite an amusing read to view some of these posts. 'Aberdeen resident' and 'all wrong again' are obviously written by the same individual with the same words used in both posts. Then the 'A ABERDEEN RESIDENT' is a typical hick town written post. The spelling is simply unbelievable and if one cannot spell correctly should not type their comments. Just for starters, one correction I will make is....'A ABERDEEN RESIDENT' should be 'An Aberdeen Resident'. Wow! This could be classified as the comic section of the online paper. "

" I know the mayor, and have for YEARS!!! It's a shame that he has been put down for trying to be honest and clean things up!!!!!
(SHAME ON YOU COUNCIL)
TRUTH!!!! "

" There needs to be something done with this council and police .....
There is for sure a coalition of conspiracy against this Mayor you people
could be in some real trouble!!!!! "

" The council and police should step down than this Mayor could do what we elected him for!!!!! "

" You people who have eyes but can't see need help!!
It is plain to see that There is a coalition of conspiracy on the council and police from day one. This Mayor needs to file charges "Wake up people" OPEN YOUR EYES" (ALL WRONG AGAIN) "

" The comment regarding Christians from Councilman Hutchinson was uncall for. Mayor Renchen should step down for the best of the village. "

" AM JUST WONDERING IF JULIAN KNOWS WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT OR IF SHE IS ONE OF THE 'IN PEOPLE' WHO THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING????? WHEN THIS GROUP OF SO-CALLED OFFICIALS GET ALONG WILL BE A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EVENT.....IF THAT. "

" I was there at that meeting and i would say that it was like a bunch of kids up there instead of GROWNUPS with the councilman and there was one police officer that was realy up set about how the mayor dont what to hirer a full time police officer to help the people in aberdeen i think that he is wrong of not doing that because people realy need the police for help and the mayor needs to tell the truth instead of lieing to everyone about what he said about the police offices i think that he has got some realy good police officer in this town and he needs to leave them alone and stop talking bad about them he needs to work with them and not turn his back on them.THEY ALL NEED TO WORK LIKE A TEAM TOGETHER INSTEAD OF INMATES FIGHTING.
( A ABERDEEN RESIDENT ) "

" I'm not from Aberdeen and honestly I'm nothing but amused by the situation there, but it does strike me that Councilman Hutchison would throw out the statement "If you claim you're Christians, then you need to act like Christians." What is this statement implying?

Are Christians supposed to go along and keep their own personal thoughts and opinions to themselves? Apparently the rest of the council and the people that attend the meetings are making, at least some of, their displeasure public and not hiding their complaints.

Stating an opinion/concerns (whether good or bad) is the right, no it is the obligation, of all citizens who elect an official. To blindly go along with something people do not feel is right is what has taken this country down the wrong path. We've expected political leaders to simply do their job and they typically have...but overall they've done it BADLY.

I'm not talking about a Christian / Non-Christian direction for government, I'm a firm believer in the separation of church and state. But the statement of acting like Christians strikes me as an implied hint to use religion to guilt people into being silent.

When elected any official should know they can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time (to paraphrase a quote). Don't complain about the people coming out with issues and concerns about the mayor, complain about the people staying home who support the mayor. "

" To be one of the smallest government entities in a state system, Aberdeen has to be one of the most dysfunctional I have ever seen. I am so glad that I came to my senses and didn't move there. There is no place for favoritism, good ole boy, family politics in a one horse...sorry, HALF horse "village". Do the job! "

" Sounds like a job for Palin. This is more her speed. LOL "