SUPERINTENDENT Lowellville board to hire replacement

Four of 16 applicants for the position were interviewed.
By MARALINE KUBIK
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
LOWELLVILLE -- The board of education is expected to announce a replacement for Superintendent Richard J. Buchenic during a meeting this evening.
Buchenic will leave his post when his contract expires at the end of the 2004-05 school year to take a job in Trumbull County.
About 16 educators applied for the position, according to Anthony Mediate, treasurer of Lowellville schools, and a committee of 10 community members and educators chose four to be interviewed by the board:
UJames A. Ciccolelli, superintendent of Campbell schools.
URocco Nero, superintendent of Bristol schools and a Lowellville resident.
UVito Weeda, principal of a middle school in Sebring.
UThomas Davis, principal of a middle school in Carrollton.
Topics covered
Each of the four were asked the same 32 questions, Mediate said, covering issues ranging from curriculum and proficiency testing to finance and community relationships.
"We covered a broad spectrum," Mediate said. The teachers were interested in asking about curriculum.
Comprising the committee along with Mediate were two Lowellville teachers; a retired Lowellville teacher; an Austintown teacher who lives in Lowellville; an instructor at Youngstown State University who lives in Lowellville; Roy Palumbo, Lowellville board president; Mayor Jim Iudiciani; the president of the parent-teacher organization; and a village priest.