BELMONT The Union Local School District is getting some welcome help from the community.
During last Thursday’s board meeting Superintendent Ben Porter recognized a donation from Thomas Auto Center in St. Clairsville of 20 computers to the school district.
“Thomas Auto Center’s a good partner for the district and they are frequent supporters of the school,” he said.
Curriculum Director Jayme Yonak, daughter of co-owner Robert Thomas, said the computers will be useful,
“He actually paid to have them cleaned,” she said. “He had the computers cleaned of all their data and stuff and brought them to Union Local School District. He delivered them to Union Local School District ready to go. We just had to put our programs on them.
Dec 21, 2020
MORRISTOWN The challenges of conducting education remotely featured in Thursday’s meeting of the Union Local School District Board of Education.
The board started the meeting with a moment of silence in honor or former Belmont mayor Stan Sobel, who died Tuesday. Sobel had been a past board member and had been a longtime science teacher at Union Local High School.
Once the meeting was underway, Superintendent Ben Porter said students and staff continue to cope with the remote learning during the surge of COVID-19 cases.
“It’s not perfect, but we have gotten a lot better than where we were in springtime with remote education,” he said, adding Union Local, like other school districts, prepared during summer for the current school year with the expectation that cases would increase during winter.