High School Football Returns After Tax-Issue Hiatus

Football and other fall sports are back at all four high schools in a suburban Columbus, Ohio, school district. A failed school levy last year resulted in an $8 million budget cut for South-Western City Schools - killing all sports and extracurricular activities. But when voters approved a 7.4-mill operating levy in November 2009, winter and spring sports, as well as other activities, were restored.

Because of the timing, schools went without football for a year - and the sport's return to the field Friday night was described as "deliriously joyful" by Columbus Dispatch reporter Michael Arace. Grove City opened its season by hosting defending Division I champion Hilliard Davidson in front of 12,000 fans, falling 28-21. But that didn't seem to put a damper on the celebration. "Friday night has always been very special here," George Edge, director of Grove City's marching band, told the paper. "People have always come out in droves, as if this were some mass exercise in civic pride for Grove City. Last year was like letting all the air out of a balloon."

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