HOWLAND TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION HONORED

Howland teachers' association honored
HOWLAND -- Northeastern Ohio's largest education organization recently honored the Howland Classroom Teachers' Association for setting an example for other local education organizations.
At the fall meeting of its Representative Assembly at Medina High School, the North Eastern Ohio Education Association announced its annual Five Star Locals including HCTA. The distinction recognizes local affiliates that go beyond local concerns to do a superior job of connecting with the association at large.
Winning the award places the HCTA among the organization's most active local affiliates. About one-eighth of NEOEA's local affiliates qualified for the award.
NEOEA has 34,000 members in 194 local associations in 11 counties of northeastern Ohio. The organization's members work in public schools, colleges and universities, joint vocational schools, and county boards for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled.
An executive committee governs the 135-year old organization. The president for 2004-05 is Jeff Pegg, an elementary physical education teacher in the Warren City Schools.
YSU professor joins 'Brown' legal symposium
YOUNGSTOWN -- Paul Sracic, associate professor of political science at Youngstown State University, participated in an American Political Science symposium on the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, Limitations and Emanations, by submitting the article "The Brown Decision's Other Legacy: Civic Education and The Rodriguez Case."
Sracic was part of an array of scholars from Brown, Harvard, the University of Michigan and William and Mary, who explored the lasting legacy of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Allegheny offers accelerated program
MEADVILLE, Pa. -- Allegheny College and Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management in Pittsburgh have reached an agreement to offer an accelerated master's in management program to qualified Allegheny College students.
The program, structured as three years at Allegheny College followed by three to four semesters at the Heinz School, will result in students' receiving both their bachelor's and master's degrees in less time than is normally required.
The specific master's programs included in this agreement are in arts management, public policy and management, health care policy and management and information systems management. Students in all academic majors are qualified to participate in the collaboration.
Jr. high program Dec. 18
SALEM -- The Salem Community Center will have a Junior High Christmas Break Festivity from 8 to 10 p.m. Dec. 18.
Seventh- and eighth-graders are invited to attend the event, which will include games, refreshments and music provided by a disk jockey. The event will be chaperoned by SCC staff.
Tickets will be: $3 in pre-sale (participating area schools only.); and $4 at the door. Those who come dressed in red or green will receive a $1 discount on their ticket.
For info, call (330) 332-5885.
Rifle-toting councilmanacquitted in second trial
COCHRANTON, Pa. -- A borough councilman used "poor judgment" when he walked by a school with his hunting rifle last year, but he wasn't guilty of a charge of hunting too close to the building without permission, a judge ruled.
Cochranton Councilman Bernard Wagner was convicted by a district justice last year, but appealed. Wagner was acquitted after a new trial Wednesday before Crawford County Judge John Spataro.
Wagner was charged after teachers and students at Cochranton Junior High School saw him walking in a field next the school in hunting gear, during which they said it looked like he stopped to unload his gun. If the gun had been loaded, Wagner would have been guilty of the charge.
But during the three-hour trial, Wagner said he had previously unloaded his gun before he walked through the field, which is a shortcut back to his house.