Replacement for longtime Lake County superintendent of schools named Michael Karner was appointed Lake County regional superintendent of schools on Tuesday. courtesy of Michael Karner
Updated 4/27/2021 3:43 PM
The Lake County Board appointed Michael Karner Tuesday as successor to Roycealee Wood, the longtime Lake County regional superintendent of schools who retired earlier this month to focus on her health after contracting COVID-19.
Karner, the principal of the Regional Safe School of Lake County in Zion, was selected by Board President Sandy Hart and unanimously confirmed by County Board members to fill the elected post at a special Tuesday morning Zoom meeting.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.