The Hometown Paper

Ah, the hometown paper:

Council members asked the city staff to consider whether a now-vacant building once used as an ice house on the land that dates to the early 20th century might be saved and reused by a business.

Remember when newspapers used to have editors to keep this sort of sentence from happening? Is it the land or the actual building which dates from the early 20th century? And which one are they trying to save and reuse? How about maybe “whether a now-vacant ice house dating from the early 20th century might be saved and reused…” That wasn’t so hard, was it?

And maybe I’m being just a little juvenile to find this headline so amusing, but I do anyway: