World Blog by humble servant. Follow up on the Staytune Sandusky and the injustice of another Black and Women Tondra Frisby.
This piece lays out a two-pronged indictment of Sandusky City Hall, connecting a controversial shift in the city's new recreation center project to internal workplace culture issues documented by former youth programming supervisor Tondra Frisby. The reason this wasn't in the regular local paper or easy to search is that it comes directly from StayTunedSandusky , the independent Substack newsletter run by Matt Westerhold (former executive editor of the Sandusky Register ). He obtained these internal city documents through recent public records requests, and the traditional print press hasn't covered them. 1. The Rec Center "Bait-and-Switch" (Mills School) The Promise vs. Reality: When the recreation levy went before voters in 2023, it was campaigned and sold to neighborhood families primarily as an out-of-school youth enrichment center. The Equipment Shift: Earlier this year, the city approved roughly $289,000 to nearly $300,000 for commercial-grade ad...