Hilliard City Schools in 2021: Flexibility will be key for district
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People saw a lot of things differently in 2020, but if there was one where a consensus was achieved, it was that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic created a battery of challenges never experienced in almost every segment of society.
Some of those challenges will continue in 2021 as Hilliard City Schools administrators prepare for a new year while also looking toward new goals.
Through it all, flexibility will be a key component, according to Superintendent John Marschhausen.
The district s 2021 goals will include assessing and mitigating the “COVID gap,” Marschhausen said, referring to the loss of education when the district was forced to teach remotely after schools were shuttered from mid-March until the end of the 2019-20 academic year and to continue in a hybrid mode with only part-time in-person instruction during 2020-21.
Invenergy, a Chicago-based solar company, wants to build a solar-powered, 250-megawatt electric generating facility in Pleasant and Prairie townships in western Franklin County.
Josh Hreha, Invenergy development manager, outlined the proposed project last week for the Big Darby Accord Advisory Panel. The panel reviews site development plans and zoning applications in the Big Darby watershed to make sure they conform with the watershed protection accord and renders nonbinding opinions to jurisdictions where projects are proposed.
The proposed Pleasant Prairie Solar Energy Center would be a 2,000-acre solar farm located south of Broad Street on the east side of Darby Creek Road, north and south of Kuhlwein Road, and east and west of the Columbus Southern Power Company power lines in Pleasant and Prairie townships. If the solar farm is constructed, Hreha said it will provide enough electricity to power almost 50,000 homes annually.
Vincent Depalma was charged in an August 2019 crash that killed 58-year-old Kurtis Tunnell.
Vincent Depalma (Franklin County Sheriff s Office) Author: 10TV Web Staff Updated: 8:54 PM EST December 10, 2020
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio A man who pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide in a crash that killed a killed a bicyclist, 58-year-old Kurtis Tunnell, in Aug. 2019 has been sentenced to probation.
According to Franklin County Common Pleas Court records, Vincent Depalma, of Dublin, was sentenced Thursday to four years probation and fined $5,000.
He must also serve four to six months in a program at a community-based correctional facility.
The Franklin County Sheriff s Office said the crash happened near the 8400 block of Scioto and Darby Creek Road.
The driver of an SUV that struck and killed prominent lawyer Kurtis Tunnell as he rode a bicycle in western Franklin County last year has been placed on probation.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Richard A. Frye on Wednesday placed Depalma on probation for four years, fined him $5,000 and ordered that he complete a substance-abuse program at the county s community-based correctional facility.
Depalma was taken into custody to be held in the county jail until a bed is available at the facility, where he will participate in an in-patient program that lasts three to six months.
The judge also suspended Depalma s driver s license for four years.