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Niles schools receive ODE literacy grant

NILES — The Niles City School District has received a $600,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Education that will allow the district to improve language and literacy development for students in grades 6-12. Niles City Schools is the only school district in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties to receive the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant on its own, independent of a consortium. The three- year grant focuses on serving the greatest number of students living in poverty, students with disabilities, English learners and students identified as having reading ...

Red Dragons’ season comes to an end

AUSTINTOWN — Kyle Lough was one of the last Red Dragons standing. The Niles senior sprinter finished eighth in Saturday’s Division II Austintown Regional track and field 100-meter final. The top four advanced to state. He walked the Austintown Fitch football field and felt his high ...

McDonald girls finish 2nd

MASSILLON — Sometimes they’re running along, happy with what they’ve already earned. That was the McDonald girls. They just won the 4x400-meter relay, seeing Jessica Stamp cross the finish line on Friday. Then, some reporter comes up to senior Malina Mitchell, who was part of that ...

Niles sends athletes to regionals

The Niles Red Dragons have a couple of representatives heading to this week’s Division I Austintown Regional track and field tournaments — one step away from the state meet in Columbus. The Red Dragons girls had a tough road at last week’s Division I Austintown District and only had ...

Rams send some to regional

NEW MIDDLETOWN — The tandem of senior Antionio Tedesco and junior Nathan Chiclowe took third and fourth, respectively, at last week’s Division III Springfield District track and field meet. Tedesco threw 141 feet, while Chiclowe went 134-4. Chiclowe took fourth in the boys shot put (49-1.75). Rams junior Abbey Strohmeyer was second in the girls 400-meter dash (1:03.43), while freshman Daneille Aulet was fourth in the 800 (2:26.76). The top four in each district event advance to today’s Division III Massillon Perry Regional. Mineral Ridge’s 4x400 girls relay almost made it ...

All alone in first

NEW MIDDLETOWN — The moms could be heard standing on the Springfield High School track. One takes charge. Others either have phones or cameras in their hands, waiting for the McDonald boys track and field team to come together as a group, surrounding yet another district track and field ...