Cornwall Police Chief Danny Aikman. (Newswatch Group/Bill Kingston, File)
CORNWALL – After nearly two-and-a-half years in the top position, the chief of the Cornwall Police Service is retiring.
Danny Aikman made the announcement Thursday morning during the virtual police board meeting that he will be hanging up his hat at the end of this year.
“After 41 years of police service, I feel now is the right time to move on with the next chapter of my life,” Aikman said.
“I know a lot of people when they retire talk about spending more time with their wives and their children and whatnot. This pandemic has given me a lot of time with my wife recently, we’ll see how that works out, love her to death. I have actually been married 41 years to Connie as well so I don’t see that ending anytime soon,” Aikman chuckled.
From staff reports
HAMMONDSVILLE Edison Local Schools are moving forward in its plan to review chronic absenteeism and post-secondary pursuits.
Superintendent Bill Beattie said a panel of district and high school administrators, career readiness and truancy officials recently met to discuss the next level in its initiative through Harvard University which uses the Proving Ground model of evidence-based improvement to address chronic absenteeism, career readiness and college enrollment.
Edison is among 50 rural schools in Ohio and New York that are part of the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks, an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard, and the study is funded by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
From staff reports
HAMMONDSVILLE The Edison Local School District is looking to reduce chronic absenteeism and is seeing some positive results with the addition of a new truancy officer.
School board members approved the hiring of Anthony Pierro during the Feb. 25 regular meeting, but his contract is retroactive to Feb. 1. Superintendent Bill Beattie said Pierro’s presence already has yielded improvements among student attendance and leaders want to maintain the momentum.
“We’ve been monitoring our chronic absenteeism since the beginning of October and there’s so much responsibility on the principals, guidance counselors and SRO’s, so the board made a commitment to hire someone to handle absenteeism in the district,” Beattie said.
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