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Step back into history
Hardin Northern fourth grader Breanna Cook is dressed as Blue Jacket, a famous war chief of the Shawnee people, during her presentation at Tuesday evenings S.T.R.O.L.L. (Step back in time, recreating Ohio’s legendary lives) program. Blue Jacket was known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in Ohio. Students from the Hardin Northern, Ridgemont and Upper Scioto Valley schools’ gifted intervention program made drawers with different items that their person would have kept along with reading biographies and doing research for the project. The Hardin County Educational Service Center hosted the evening.
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Hardin may be in line for flood aid
Hardin County is among six area counties which could share $3 million in state help to deal with flooding problems.
State Rep. Cliff Hite, R-Findlay, said lawmakers have written $3 million into the proposed two-year capital budget to help the counties in their battle against floods that have hit the area the past two years.
Hite told The (Findlay) Courier that the capital budget has to be approved by both the House and Senate, and go to Gov. Ted Strickland for final approval.
In addition the Hardin, the other counties included in the funding are Hancock, Allen, Putnam, Paulding and Wyandot.
Hite originally requested $300,00. But he joined forces with State Rep. Lynn Wachtmann, R-Napoleon, to seek the larger amount.
Hite said he will work to preserve the $3 million in the current budget as it works through the legislative process. His hope is to then get $3 million more for flood relief in each of the following two capital budgets.
Findlay has been among the worst-hit areas by flooding since December 2006. That city has experienced seven floods in 14 months, The Courier reported.
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| TUESDAY MAY 20, 2008 |
 ERIC HOFFMAN
Ridgedale educator to lead Riverdale
Times news bureau
MOUNT BLANCHARD - It will be a change of three letters for Eric Hoffman.
The now Ridgedale Schools superintendent was approved Monday night as Riverdale's new superintendent at the regular school board meeting.
Hoffman was approved for a three-year contract with a base salary of $95,000. He will begin on Aug. 1 and have a 20-day consulting contract until then.
"I think it was a good fit. It's very similar to what I'm doing now," Hoffman said.
He said it was important to get the district voters support.
"I think you have to make all the stakeholders of the district feel that you're spending their money wisely," Hoffman said. "I think we have to look at everything. I think I have to do a lot of listening for the next six months to a year and I've got to keep the traditions going and the things that we're doing well and I'll some different things, just not a lot right off the bat."
Hoffman has been at Ridgedale the past five years and prior to that he was in Coldwater as a superintendent for three and a half years.
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Kenton board cuts two middle school positions
By CHRISTINA HOY
Times staff writer
Members of the Kenton City School board were not in agreement when it came to cutting two positions at the middle school.
The motion to approve cutting a sixth grade teacher and health educator positions was made by board member Mike Baird, but he stood alone as silence fell over the board, causing his motion to fail due to a lack of a second.
Superintendent Doug Roberts came back to recommend cutting a sixth and eighth grade teaching positions at the middle school by not filling two vacant spots next year.
The board voted in favor of Robert's recommendation with Baird voting against because the student-teacher ratio was slightly increased by this fix, which allowed middle school teachers to still have two planning sessions. He said teachers at the middle school are the only ones out of the district to have two planning sessions.
Baird said with the original proposal would have kept the student-teacher ratio the same as it currently is but would take away one of the two planning sessions middle school teachers have.
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