Sandusky Register owner Bob Nutting tossed history like he was dumping memorial bricks

SANDUSKY — For Bob Nutting, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Sandusky Register, history is just another line item to be deleted. In 2026, the strategy looks exactly like it did in 2025.

Last year, Pirates fans called Nutting out after they found memorial bricks—purchased by fans in 2001 to help build PNC Park—tossed in a dumpster. This year, he’s getting called out for the digital equivalent: dumping two decades of news coverage from the Sandusky Register’s YouTube channel.

The Register’s channel, which had thousands of subscribers and hosted many hundreds of news videos, was first started 20 years ago. It disappeared sometime earlier this year without any explanation from Ogden Newspapers publisher Jeremy Speer or executive editor John McCabe, both of whom have declined to address questions.