School board, teachers OK three-year contract

School board, teachersOK three-year contract
CORTLAND -- Lakeview Board of Education has approved a three-year contract with teachers more than two months before the old contract was set to expire.
The more than 150 members of Lakeview Teachers Association will get raises of 21/2 percent next year, then 3 percent and 4 percent over the second and third years, said Superintendent Matt Chojnacki.
The teachers also agreed to switch to a medical plan shared by most school districts in Trumbull County, he said.
They will continue paying 5 percent of that cost.
The contract was approved by the board of education Monday after approval by the union last week.
A mediator has been called in to settle an impasse in negotiations between the board and the Lakeview School Support Association, which represents more than 65 nonteaching employees, Chojnacki said.
That contract is also set to expire Sept. 1.
Traffic accident injureslocal motorcyclist
NILES -- A Warren man was in critical but stable condition in a Cleveland hospital this morning as the result of a Saturday afternoon traffic accident.
Police said Emerson G. Hake, 51, of Ridgelawn Street, was riding his motorcycle on Mall Boulevard headed toward the entrance of Super Kmart about 4:15 p.m. when Patricia M. Simons, 41, of 13th Street, turned in front of him.
Hake swerved to avoid a collision and struck a curb and was thrown from the bike.
He wasn't wearing a helmet.
The accident remains under investigation.
Fair projects deadline
BAZETTA -- The deadline for adults to enter projects from livestock to artwork in the Trumbull County Fair has been extended to Saturday. The fair office is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Saturday. For more information, call the office at (330) 637-6010.
New firefighters
WARREN -- The city was to swear in four new firefighters today. Personnel director Gary Cicero said each will earn $10.31 per hour.
They are: Jarrod Perry, 21, of Struthers; Casey Klein, 27, of Farmdale; Michael Loftus, 24, of Boardman; and Bryan Binko, 25, of Warren.
July meeting changed
McDONALD -- The board of education has changed the date of its July meeting to July 9 at 6 p.m. in the high school art room.
A work session and executive session will follow the meeting.
The board usually meets the third Thursday of the month.
Kids' ID program
HOWLAND -- Children will be photographed Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the Kids Care child identification program. The photos will be taken by Olan Mills Studios at Super Kmart during store hours. Howland Fire Department will have a firetruck on display, and police will do fingerprinting.
Probe of officergoes to prosecutor
BOARDMAN -- The township police department will hand the criminal investigation of a township officer to the Mahoning County prosecutor's office for review.
Police Chief Jeffrey L. Patterson said the final witness statements taken during the investigation of Lt. John M. Rosensteel will be turned over to the prosecutor today.
Rosensteel, 57, has been accused of abducting a Youngstown woman from the parking lot of the Ground Round restaurant on South Avenue on June 2.
Carrie Eckert, a 24-year-old waitress at the restaurant, said she and a friend had drinks with some Boardman officers after her shift. She said she ended up alone in the lot with Rosensteel and he forced her into his truck and drove her throughout the township.
Man dies of injuries
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police said a Sharon man injured in a one-vehicle accident Friday morning on Keel Ridge Road died of his injuries Monday in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Marc R. Bartholomew, 41, of Memorial Boulevard, was pronounced dead at 5:51 p.m. of chest injuries, police said.
Bartholomew was northbound on Keel Ridge Road when his pickup truck ran off the road just north of Neshannock Road and slammed into a tree.