McDonald searches for superintendent

McDonald searches for superintendent

MCDONALD

The McDonald school board will begin a search for a new school superintendent, according to a report by 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

During a special meeting Friday, the board accepted the resignation of part-time Superintendent Ken Halbert Jr.

He came to McDonald in 2011 when the district was in fiscal emergency. Now that the district is stable again, he says he is ready for his next challenge.

“Everything that was cut is restored, and our finances are in great shape,” Halbert told the television station. “Our programs are back; our employee positions that were lost during fiscal emergency are back.”

Halbert says his last day on the job will be Aug. 31.

Motorcycle crash injures man

NORTH JACKSON

A man is in serious condition at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital after a motorcycle accident along the boundary of Jackson and Milton townships late Thursday afternoon.

A dispatcher with the Ohio State Highway Patrol said Friday that Dennis Weems, age and address unavailable, was traveling west on Palmyra Road, at 5:39 p.m. when his motorcycle was struck by a car traveling south on South Duck Creek Road.

The dispatcher said the driver of the car, a 17-year-old from Salem, failed to yield at the intersection. Weems was taken to the hospital with serious, but nonlife-threatening injuries. The teenager was uninjured.

Man indicted

YOUNGSTOWN

A Mahoning County grand jury indicted a Canfield man on charges of having sexual contact with two juveniles.

Darryl Hoon Sr, 43, was indicted Thursday on nine counts of gross sexual imposition. All nine charges are third-degree felonies.

The charges stem from Hoon allegedly having sexual contact with two minors, as young as age 10 or 11, according to a report by 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

According to the indictment, the purported incidents began in January 2014 lasting up to this year. Hoon will be arraigned later this month in common pleas court.

Suspect sought

NILES

Authorities continue looking for a man who robbed a city business Thursday night.

Investigators told 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, the man armed with a knife demanded all the money in the cash register at the Chef Peng restaurant, 517 N. Main St., about 9:20 p.m.

He then drove off on North Main heading toward Warren in a red four-door sedan.

Police were given a license-plate number and are following up on leads.

Project for Warren

warren

Red House Projects, a design/build firm from Cleveland, and Longstride, a creative agency from Columbus, have donated resources to propose a project that encompasses community priorities and offers a model intervention to the blight and vacancy in Warren.

The proposed project will combine the use of cargo shipping containers in the construction. The goal is to spur development for new modern living at a price point that is approachable for the residents of Warren.

Red House Projects and Longstride have come together to design and build a unique home for one of Warren’s citizens, Jeff Sanders.