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Denita Johnson is the next executive director of the Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority. She now works in North Carolina.

Joshua Crites was a finalist for the top housing authority position in Akron last year. A year later, he finds himself heading Stark housing authority

The Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority had been without a director since April. Its board of commissioners filled the post after two prior attempts.

The Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority Board will handle the executive director search itself.

CANTON – Agency emails contradict some statements Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority Executive Director Herman Hill has made about the purchase of a house and a job provided for its tenant.  The Canton Repository reported in February that the Housing Authority bought a house on 41st Street NW in the Plain Local Schools' system. It was leased to Section 8 voucher-holder Britnee Allen of Orrville; she then was hired for a newly-added agency position. Hill knew Allen. He and Allen's seventh-grade sons, both now living in the Plain Local school system, played on a travel basketball te...