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Editorial: Monday night the Planning Commission met and I asked to be recognized during the discussion of Denison’s proposal to “improve” the lighting of Burke Hall. I had to spar with Mike Crites’ daughter, who was sitting in for him as Village Law Director, to gain “standing” before the Commission.

No public input was permitted at the Granville School Board’s work session Wednesday evening. For nearly three hours they discussed the agreement worked out by Scot Prebles with William Kraner, but they didn’t consider any input from citizens present at the meeting.

At its meeting Monday night, the Granville School Board agreed to keep the details of the most recent Kraner negotiations secret. Although they openly discussed some of the points of the agreement that Kraner and Scot Prebles had initialed last Friday, they claimed that the document itself was privileged.

On Friday, William Kraner called and then visited Scot Prebles in the superintendent’s office. Mr. Kraner had another proposal for Granville Schools. But why?

The Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee met in Village Hall last evening and received the latest draft of the updated plan from Poggemeyer Design Group. The comprehensive plan update is a joint effort of the Village of Granville and Granville Township.

During the discussion of the latest draft, Scot Prebles, Granville Schools Superintendent, and member of the committee, ask the Poggemeyer planners how potential sites for new schools are indicated on the maps. Not specific sites, of course, but in general.

Tonight the Granville School Board will meet and discuss the recent decision of Newark’s Mayor Bain to extend water and sewer into William Kraner’s land in the Granville school district.

Everyone knows this will hurt the Newark schools as well as the Granville schools. It’s a very bad state of affairs for our two communities. The only person helped by this situation is Mr. Kraner himself - the houses he builds on this property will be worth much more if they are in the Granville school district instead of the Newark district.

I just drove by the new Arbys a few minutes ago.

It has the makings of a fine looking building. You’ll remember the Planning Commission spent a lot of time and several meetings with Arbys to arrive at this design. However, recently, Arbys came before the Planning Commission asking to use white or tan mullions in the windows because the window manufacturer would not give a warranty on the burgundy mullions the Commission had requested.

The Planning Commission relented and permitted Arbys to use the white/tan mullions.

Well, now we have it. The building’s windows are divided into large sections by burgundy frames, but the mullions are white or tan (I can’t really tell which).

And, it looks like Hell.