LEETONIA Superintendent to start in January

The new superintendent has been teaching and educating since 1976.
LEETONIA -- An Austintown educator will be taking over the helm for the village school district after the first of the year.
The school board agreed Thursday to hire Thomas Inchak of Austintown to a 31/2-year superintendent's contract.
Inchak, 48, will be replacing Lynn King, who died in September of complications from heart surgery.
Nearly a dozen people applied for the job.
Inchak was one of two finalists for the post. The other was Jerry Wolf of North Benton, a middle school principal in the Waterloo School District in Portage County.
School Treasurer Larry Syverson said today that the board had two excellent candidates from which to choose.
Inchak probably was given the nod as the result of his experience, Syverson said.
The new superintendent will start Jan. 2. He will be paid $74,000 a year for the job.
Background: Inchak has been serving since 1998 as director of instruction in the Austintown School District.
Before that he was principal at Austintown Fitch High School from 1993 to 1998.
His other jobs have included serving as assistant principal at Champion High School and as a teacher and coach at Fitch.
Inchak said this morning that he's looking "forward to working in a great community and a great school district."