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ACLD accepting eligible special-needs students

ACLD accepting eligible special-needs students YOUNGSTOWN The ACLD School and Learning Center is

New president picked for Westminster

Georgia academic chosen as Westminster College’s 15th president

YSU doctoral candidates to vote on graduation regalia

YSU students are selecting caps and gowns

Board votes 4-3 to back Kimble’s appeal; Hunter blasts resolution

Kimble, her son an two other board members vote to appeal a judge’s decision rejecting Kimble's appointment of her cousin to the new distress panel.

Chaney graduate will work in Ghana as Peace Corps volunteer

Zakiya Miller will spend 27 months in Ghana as a Peace Corps volunteer

Mathews elementary school using bottled water because of elevated arsenic level

Parents of students at Currie Elementary School in the Mathews school district were notified Tuesday of elevated levels of arsenic found in the school’s well water

Judge says Staten can’t sit on academic commission

Brenda Kimble must appoint a teacher to the commission by Friday, the judge ordered.

Grant helps educate parents, students about healthful living

Parents learn about healthy cooking at Rayen Early College Middle School

Enrollment increases at YSU for first time in 5 years

YSU officials hope enrollment’s trajectory has turned around

South Range seniors serve supper in Salem to those in need

Two South Range High School students will expand their senior service project to feed those in need at the Banquet in Salem on Monday.

Austintown teacher follows passion with Falcons to Bluebirds project

An Austintown teacher’s passion is giving students the opportunity to be a part of outdoor, hands-on learning.

Sebring-area schools reopen after favorable lead tests

No detectable lead is leaving Sebring's water treatment plant, OEPA’s Deputy Director of Communications Heidi Griesmer told The Vindicator. “In the main lines, there is no lead piping” in the village water distribution system, she said. Her comments came just a day after village residents showed up in force at a public meeting to demand answers about the lead discovered in their drinking water.