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Dave Downey of Boardman flies a bowl kite in Canfield on Saturday afternoon at the Loghurst Museum. The Mahoning Valley is invited to fly kites again today in an open field next to the structure at 3967 Boardman-Canfield Road from noon to 4 p.m. The event is free. Staff photo / Ashley Fox CANFIELD Folks brainstorming ways to enjoy the weather today can go fly a kite. The Loghurst Museum kicked off spring with a kite-flying event Saturday that continues today. “We’ve been in COVID. We’ve been undercover. Everybody’s been inside, and everybody wants to get outside again. What better way than to go fly a kite?” said Beverly Vangeloff-Cook, vice president of the Canfield Heritage Foundation, which operates the museum. ....
jyoung@post-journal.com Southwestern Central School Superintendent Maureen Donahue briefs the board on the specifics of the 2021-22 budget, which was approved Tuesday night. P-J photo by Jay Young The Southwestern Central School Board approved its 2021-22 district budget during a meeting this week, in addition to discussing end-of-year plans. Superintendent Maureen Donahue offered a presentation of the proposed budget, which includes a 4.9% increase in foundation aid in addition to increases from national funds intended to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The budget includes $1,264,454 from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and $2,068,369 from the American Rescue Plan, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11. ....
etichy@post-journal.com Several buses are pictured Monday afternoon during a tribute to Rick Willman, a longtime bus driver for the Southwestern Central School District. Capt. Rick, as he was known, died Feb. 7 at UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pa. Submitted photo He was best known locally as Capt. Rick. But for the Southwestern Central School District, Rick Willman was a two-decades-long employee who had an affinity for remembering students’ names and their accomplishments. “He was always so personable and friendly,” said Southwestern Superintendent Maureen Donahue. Though remembered widely as the longtime owner of the Summer Wind, the scenic cruiser of Chautauqua Lake that could be spotted often during summer evenings, Willman also served as a substitute teacher at Southwestern before he became a bus driver. In all, he spent about two decades with the school district. ....
churst@post-journal.com Every time Maureen Donahue looks at a calendar, the time that has passed since March 16 has never failed to amaze her. “We are in January and it started with the shutdown on March 16,” the Southwestern Central School superintendent said during a meeting earlier this week. “I just had a conversation with a parent earlier tonight and it’s really startling to think this is however many months old,” Donahue said. “There’s nothing novel about this anymore we’re all kind of ready for it to be over and some of the things for our kids, one of the things I said to somebody was, ‘I’m not telling the kids ‘No’ anymore.’ There’s this whole academic piece, but there’s this whole social-emotional piece also.” ....
churst@post-journal.com Southwestern Central School officials approved an agreement with the county to serve as a COVID-19 vaccination site if needed. P-J photo by Cameron Hurst The Southwestern Central School Board approved an agreement with Chautauqua County on Tuesday night to serve as a COVID-19 vaccination site if needed. The contingent agreement with the county comes as educators begin to receive the coronavirus vaccination under the state’s 1b population that began receiving vaccinations earlier this week. “We are in 1b and not all of 1a has gotten the first dose of the vaccine yet,” the district’s superintendent, Maureen Donahue, said during a board of education meeting. “When they disbursed the vaccine, they would have and open it up and you would have five hours to use those vials you had. If you had 40 appointments and only 35 people show up, you have five vials that are not getting used. Now they opened it up to 1b to utilize a lot of th ....