Avon Lake District Offers Early Retirement for Teachers
Avon Lake Schools announced early retirement incentives to adjust for declining enrollment and reduce spending. The plan follows a failed 170 million construction bond levy and aims to determine possible staff reductions based on retirements. Superintendent Joelle Magyar confirmed the incentives, with a cash component and an end of February acceptance deadline.
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Joelle Magyar
Magyar
Activist Rhoda Lee recalls Lorain Black community history
Rhoda Lee 88 recalls Lorain and nearby areas as segregated despite International City labels. Her late 1970s move from Mississippi to Ohio connected her with NAACP efforts, unions, and Civil Rights marches including the 1963 March on Washington. Her family aided early Ohio NAACP work.
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Linda
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Amherst
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Mississippi
Linda Dotson
Tallahatchie
Emmett Till
Youngstown
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NAACP
Ohio
Martin Luther King Jr
Youngstown State University
Lorain Schools Probe Weighs Sermon On Homosexuality
Lorain Schools faces questions after a mid January church service sermon by Reuben Figueroa, director of safety, linked homosexuality to demons and cancer. The liberation service at Tower Refuge Ministries was posted January 21 and translated by his wife Amarily. Superintendent Jeff Graham said the district is reviewing the concerns.
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Lorain Schools
Reuben Figueroa
Tower Refuge Ministries
Figueroa
Amarily Figueroa
Jesus
Jeff Graham
Giant Eagle buys two parcels of former Golden Acres site
The Lorain County Port Authority plans to sell two Amherst Township parcels at 46001 North Ridge Road and 105 S Leavitt Road for at least 1.6 million to Giant Eagle for a GetGo store and WetGo car wash. The 45999 North Ridge Road parcel remains unlisted.
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Amherst Township
GetGo
WetGo
Lorain County Port Authority
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S. Leavitt Road
Golden Acres Nursing Home
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Lorain County Board of Commissioners
Jim Miller
Miller
Golden Acres
Kresge Drive
Amherst
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