City-schools forums

City-schools forums

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Community forums are scheduled with each of the five finalists for the city schools superintendent position.

Each of the forums begins at 7 p.m. at Choffin Career & Technical Center, 200 E. Wood St., where candidates will address the community and answer questions:

Monday, Christina Dinklocker, deputy superintendent, Parma City School District.

Wednesday, Pamela Brown, chief academic officer, Philadelphia School District.

Aug. 30, Timothy Dortch, director of student services, Kent City School District.

Aug. 31, Thomas Robey, superintendent, Campbell City School District.

Sept. 1, Connie Hathorn, executive director of student support, Akron City School District.

Naming of bridge

Poland

A bridge on U.S. Route 224 behind the Poland Library will be named to honor a local war hero.

The bridge will be named the “PFC James H. Spencer USMC Memorial Bridge” at an 11 a.m. ceremony Sept. 4 featuring a Marine Corps Color Guard and a Marine Corps representative speaker.

Spencer was a 1966 alumnus of Poland Seminary High School who enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduation. He was deployed March 27, 1967, and was killed July 14 of that year in Vietnam. Spencer is buried in Poland Riverside Cemetery.

Weathersfield work

MCKINLEY HEIGHTS

Weathersfield Township trustees will have a work session at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the McKinley Heights Fire Station, 2229 Gardenland Ave., to discuss the Township trash/recycling hauling.

Township residents are encouraged to attend to hear the proposal for the trash and recycling program.

Poland man indicted

CLEVELAND

A federal grand jury has indicted a Poland man on a charge of receiving and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The indictment alleges Richard E. Heinz, 51, used the Internet to download images of child pornography between Jan. 4, 2007, and Feb. 13, 2009. Thousands of images of child pornography were found on his desktop computers and CD and DVD discs, the U.S. attorney said.

The case was investigated by the Youngstown FBI office.

Niles resignations

NILES

The Niles school board has accepted the resignations of Michael Notar, principal of McKinley High School, and Kelly Newbrough, a high school math teacher who had been suspended for 10 days last February for student intimidation and unprofessional conduct after threatening a student and violating board policies.

Notar has accepted the position of business manager for Warren city schools. The board last June granted Newbrough’s request for medical leave for the upcoming school year. He is a law-school student.

4th-most affordable

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown-Warren area is the fourth-most- affordable housing market in the country in the second quarter of this year, according to the National Association of Home Builders. The group ranks areas by the percentage of homes that were affordable to a family earning the area’s median income.

The area’s household median income is $53,500 with the median home price being $74,000, according to the association. The Youngstown-Warren area was tied for first with Indianapolis as the most- affordable housing market in the country in the first quarter of this year.