Mark Zura, left, will be the new principal at Boardman High School, and Mike Masucci will be the new principal at Boardman Center Intermediate School. (Contributed photos)
BOARDMAN The Boardman Local School Board voted unanimously Monday night to hire two officials who are coming from Poland Local Schools.
Mark Zura, who serves as director of Student Services in the Poland Local School District, will be the new principal at Boardman High School. Mike Masucci, principal at Poland Union Elementary School, will be the new principal at Boardman Center Intermediate School.
Zura has more than 20 years of educational experience, half of which was spent at Boardman. He will replace Principal Cindy Fernback, who is retiring effective June 30 after 32 years in Boardman Local Schools. Zura’s three-year contract begins July 1.
BOARDMAN Hanging from a tree in the Dravecky family s front yard is a bucket with three tubes feeding into it. That bucket has been collecting sap since th
Tanner Dravecky, 12, of Boardman, secures taps installed in a tree in the front yard of his home. The youth has been collecting sap since the beginning of March with help from parents Jenn and George.
BOARDMAN Hanging from a tree in the Dravecky family’s front yard is a bucket with three tubes feeding into it.
That bucket has been collecting sap since the beginning of March, a hobby that 12-year-old Tanner decided to take on last year.
Tanner and his peers at Boardman Center Intermediate School watched “Mystery Doug” each Friday in fifth grade science class last year. A question came up about maple syrup: whether it can be ingested right from a tree.
People hold signs and rally Monday outside Boardman High School in support of a student who reportedly had a paper stapled to his hair or head last month at Boardman Center Intermediate School. The aide who was accused in the incident has since resigned.
Staff photo / Ashley Fox
BOARDMAN In the hour leading to the Boardman Board of Education meeting Monday, about 50 people rallied outside in support of a student who reportedly had a note about a water bottle stapled to his person by an aide.
By 5 p.m., about 250 cases of water were on hand, donated by district families as well as people from outside the area.
BOARDMAN An aide with the Boardman Local School District resigned Friday after being accused of stapling a note to a child’s hair or head, the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s office has confirmed.
Both the prosecutor’s office and the Boardman Police Department have concluded their investigation “of supplemental evidence obtained in the matter,” according to a news release from county Prosecutor Paul Gains.
Instead of pursuing criminal action, “prosecutors have secured an agreement that the teacher’s aide will immediately resign” with Boardman Local Schools, the statement reads.
The aide was not charged for allegedly stapling a reminder to a child, who is on the autism spectrum, at Boardman Center Intermediate School. The newspaper does not name uncharged suspects.