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For months, Youngstown has been planning to utilize speed cameras in school zones to increase student's safety and they seem to be moving closer to the goal.

It’s been said that William Holmes McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers have been used by more Americans than any book besides The Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. Those educational books taught American schoolchildren for more than a century from 1836 until the mid- 20th century. McGuffey (1800-1873) got his education in the Mahoning Valley, growing up in Coitsville and teaching briefly in Poland before becoming a professor at Miami University and president at Cincinnati College (now the University of Cincinnati) and Ohio University. The William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society continues to wo...

Staff photo / Ed Runyan ... Geraldine DeWitt, left, speaks to Judge Renee DiSalvo of Youngstown Municipal Court during her sentencing hearing Thursday. Behind her is her attorney, Ron Yarwood, and Angela Miner, a court-security bailiff. YOUNGSTOWN — Former teacher Geraldine DeWitt, 62, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for assaulting a special needs student at McGuffey Elementary School in April 2019. Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Renee DiSalvo issued the sentence Thursday. DeWitt must report to jail March 4 unless she can provide a report from her doctor indicating a need for her jail ti...

YOUNGSTOWN -- Geraldine DeWitt, 62, was sentenced to 30 days in jail today for assaulting a student at McGuffey Elementary School in April 2019. She is sched

Feb 15, 2021 YOUNGSTOWN — Teachers and administrators at McGuffey Elementary School are “Painting the Town McGuffey” to recognize scholars’ academic and attendance achievements. McGuffey staff picked up signs and have posted them in the yards of students who made the school’s honor roll and those who achieved high attendance. “We wanted to ‘Paint the Town McGuffey’ because we want our scholars to know that we are proud of them even at a distance and that we celebrate their achievements,” Eboni Williams, McGuffey’s fifth- through eighth-grade principal, said. “We also wan...