To those of you living in or traveling to Eaton, Ohio, our deepest sympathies. Secondly, here is an important proposed road name change that may well affect you:

The Preble County Board of Commissioners approved on Monday to initiate a change of name for a portion of Carlton Road in Lanier Township.

A section of the road will bear the word “east” before the street name. The name change will help fire and rescue squads better respond to emergencies, the board said.

“People call it (East Carlton Road) anyway,” Commissioner Jane Marshall said.

A public hearing is scheduled at 10:30 a.m. (Ohio time) May 25 before the name change is approved.

We have no sympathy, however, for those citizens that blow-off the public hearing and then gripe about the new name ex post facto. If you want a say in which half of the road gets the “East” in front of it, clear your schedules.