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Liberty woman seeks more support against vouchers program

LIBERTY - It's been nearly two years since a longtime resident expressed concern that school vouchers will "endanger" public schools and two years later, she's taking the stage to seek more support. During the public comments portion of Monday's Liberty Board of Education meeting, Julia Catchpole, a former teacher who has lived in Liberty since the 1980s and put two children through the district, thanked the board for being a part of the Vouchers Hurt Ohio coalition, a group to which multiple school districts in Trumbull County - Bristol, Girard, Hubbard, LaBrae, Lakeview, Lordstown, ...

County bike trail advocates urge maintenance improvements

WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioner Tony Bernard contacted Trumbull County MetroParks Board Chairman Randy Fabrizio recently because a woman was unhappy that the portable bathrooms on the Western Reserve Greenway bike and hike trail were removed a month earlier than usual this year. Fabrizio said he explained to Bernard that removing the portable toilets early was a way for the MetroParks board to stay within its $131,000 budget for this year. Fabrizio said the issue is just a small symptom of a bigger problem. The main issue is that the pavement on the trail “is near or at the ...

Fairgrounds fall fest helps mission

On the record: McDonald Village Council

WHAT: McDonald Village council meeting Oct. 21 PRESENT: Sean Schmidt, John Metzinger, Brian Bosheff, Joe Sanson, Marty Puckett and Mayor Ray Lewis ABSENT: Kerry Reckard Council: * Heard from residents Elizabeth Johnson and Joe Guarino who asked about the data center ordinance being prepared by the village zoning board and what procedures will be used to create the ordinance. * Passed by emergency reading submitting an application to participate in the federal land and water conservation fund program for money for improvements to the tennis courts. * Approved supporting the Mahoning ...

On the record: Southington Board of Education

Southington WHAT: Board of education meeting Oct. 21 PRESENT: Megan Gibbs, Elizabeth Dunn, Terry Kelly, Steve Gilanyi and LeeAnn Westenfelder The board: * Approved the 12th grade senior trip to Orlando, Fla. April 25-29, with Jennifer Doan and Crystal Nevling as class trip advisers. * Received a $10,659 Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation grant for school safety initiatives and an $8,000 anonymous donation for the Washington D.C. trip. * Approved Morgan Duffy as a substitute nurse at $18 per hour and office substitute at $12.50 per hour. - Bob Coupland

Vienna trustees reject zoning language for data centers

VIENNA - It's been six months since trustees voted to place a moratorium on data centers, and now its zoning commission will have to go back to the drawing board. Trustees at Monday's special meeting voted 2-1 to send back the township's zoning code changes, which would establish zoning standards and regulatory requirements governing the siting, construction and expansion of data centers in Vienna, and approved another 180-day moratorium. Trustee Phil Pegg was the lone vote against both motions. In terms of what the rejected language looked like, a draft obtained weeks before the ...