Feb. 8 work session
KEY ACTION Assistant Superintendent Tammy Stevens said Feb. 19 will be the day teachers get vaccinated between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.
DISCUSSION There will be two places for faculty and staff to get their vaccinations: Ashland City School District Administrative Offices and the Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center.
Mapleton Local School District and Ashland s private schools will be coming to the administrative offices to get their vaccinations. Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village Schools and Hillsdale Local School District will be receiving their vaccinations at the Career Center.
OTHER BUSINESS New graduation requirements were released by the state a year-and-a-half ago and have been put into effect for the Class of 2023.
With COVID safety precautions in place, each school has musical theater presentations planned .
And for at least one student at Ashland High School, this will be an experience of a lifetime.
Junior Aidan Chandler is geared up to perform as Telly Leung in Godspell. We’re excited to do it and do it safely, Chandler said. The things we get to do, you get excited about.”
Chandler was quarantined in November before Thanksgiving break. Though he never contracted COVID, he missed some choir performances, but was back at school just in time to audition for the musical.
On a whim, Chandler s father, Dan, reached out to Broadway actor Telly Leung to prepare his son for the role.
Ashland Times Gazette
ASHLAND Ryan Stroup shot Tina Goad multiple times and left her body in a wooded area before fleeing to a Cleveland motel.
That s the account Prosecutor Christopher Tunnell laid out Friday afternoon during Stroup s initial appearance in Ashland County Common Pleas Court.
Tunnell said Goad, 41, of Mansfield, died of multiple gunshot wounds.
The gun was found by detectives on Stroup in a Cleveland motel where he was interviewed during the investigation. The defendant has confessed to shooting Ms. Goad, causing her death, and has indicated that this is a premeditated killing, Tunnell told the court.
Goad s body was found in a wooded area off of County Road 1600, Tunnell said, after Stroup directed detectives to the location.
Ashland Times Gazette
ASHLAND - The city s economy made it through a difficult 2020 dominated by the coronavirus pandemic in better shape than expected.
That was the main theme Thursday of Mayor Matt Miller s State of the City address, which covered the city s accomplishments from the past year, including not only the economy, but also streets, parks and economic development. Property values are going up here in Ashland and our economic base must be getting stronger, Miller said. People are working here and making money. People are spending their money here in Ashland at levels that we have not seen in the past.