SCHOOL BOARD Hermitage fills position

The district has a vacant principal's post to be filled.
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- The Hermitage School Board selected one of its elementary principals to fill the post of director of administrative services.
Bonnie O'Mahony, principal of Artman Elementary School, was named Monday to the post left vacant by the June 30 retirement of Carol Gurrera.
It's not the first time O'Mahony has succeeded Gurrera.
Gurrera, who spent 37 years in the district, served as principal of Artman Elementary before taking the director of administrative services post in 2001. O'Mahony was hired to take the Artman principal's post.
The board set O'Mahony's new salary at $76,521 a year. She will be responsible for curriculum and support services.
She taught in the Sharon City School District for two decades before joining the Commodore Perry School District as an elementary principal and director of special education. She came to Hermitage in 2001.
Superintendent Karen Ionta said she will post the position of Artman principal.
Principal resigns
In other business, the board accepted the resignation of Joseph Raykie as principal of elementary and secondary services.
Raykie, formerly principal at Hermitage Elementary School, was named to the newly created post in March.
The board didn't fill his elementary principal's post at the time but named Diane Brest as head teacher in that building to assume some of his duties.
Raykie spent more than a decade in the district and stepped down to accept a principal's position in the Slippery Rock Area School District.
Ionta said his latest position won't be filled either. The duties, which include overseeing alternative education, attendance, tutoring and students attending the Mercer County Career Center, will be divided among other administrators and staff, she said.