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Board lowers cost

We noticed this week that the Fairmont Area School Board agreed to lower the cost for adults to get into school activities from $7 to $6. This comes on the heels of the district’s decision last year to let anyone age 18 and younger into activities for free.

We think it’s great that the district is encouraging attendance at school activities and making it easier. It’s not every day that people see prices go down, and we’re sure they appreciate it.

Because of great leadership, Fairmont Area Schools is in sound financial shape and can afford the change.

City, school cooperate

It can be easy to forget the projects and programs that have helped shape our community for the better. So we are glad that Fairmont Area Schools Superintendent Joe Brown this week offered his reflections on his past decade in town.

Brown pointed to several cooperative endeavors between the school, city and community. These have brought ag back into the classroom at the school and sparked a remarkable vocational program there. They also created more local housing.

We look forward to seeing what future cooperation will create.

Citizenship debased

Critics say President Trump is being “political” for wanting to add a citizenship question to the U.S. census. The critics in question ought to know. Everything they do is politically motivated.

We cannot believe that there is not a citizenship question already on the census. If the census is used to direct federal funding to states based on population, then that population should count citizens only. Or American citizenship has no meaning.

It’s a shame the courts did not agree with Trump, who has opted to compile information on non-citizens in other ways. Good for him.

Mini golf breaks ground

We offer our congratulations to Kids Just Want to Have Fun in Fairmont. The group this week broke ground on its mini golf course next to the Fairmont Aquatic Park. It’s a great project for children and families being built at a great location.

Kids Just Want to Have Fun, a subgroup of 1590, organized the project and raised the $70,000 to make it happen. Local sponsors earn kudos for pitching in.

We look forward to seeing people enjoying themselves on the course when work is complete. It’s going to be fun.

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