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weathersfield schools Lane family adds $50,000 toward pledge for stadium
MINERAL RIDGE
The Weathersfield Board of Education accepted $50,000 from the Lane family of Lane Funeral Home toward the familly’s $500,000 pledge for football-stadium renovations.
The stadium is named after the late Joe Lane Sr. Only $75,000 remains on their pledge.
The stadium was renovated in 2000, spear- headed by the pledge from the Lane family. The community then raised additional funds to bring the total to $1 million to upgrade the existing stadium.
“They have been unbelievably generous for many years,” schools Superintendent Damon Dohar said, adding: “Their gifts have been amazing. The family’s donations will affect many generations of Mineral Ridge students.”
The stadium was renovated with new locker rooms, new bathrooms, new bleachers, new sod on the football field, and replacing the cinder track with an all-weather track, and adding a band shell.
In other business, the Ohio School Facilities Commission renewed the district’s conditional approval for a $26 million school-renovation project on July 12, Dohar said.
The state’s share of the project will be $17.8 million, and the local share will be $7.5 million.
Dohar said the district is working with its architects, MS Consultants of Youngstown, and its construction manager, Hammon Construction of Canton, to finalize plans for an addition to the high school, tearing down parts of Seaborn Elementary School and making renovations there, and demolition of the middle school, except for administration offices and the bus garage.
The board accepted the resignation of Randy Cameron as high school social- studies teacher.
Cameron, who has been with the district for 26 years, is a former athletic director for the district. He was hired in May to be the new high school boys basketball coach. Cameron has taken the position as principal at Mathews High School.