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    Galion Board of Education Poised to Make Substantial Cuts

    by  • May 19, 2012 • News & Views, Schools & Health • 4 Comments

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    The Board of Education for Galion City Schools is poised to make substantial personnel cuts for the District, all of which are scheduled for votes at next Tuesday’s meeting.

    Proposed cuts will impact both administrative levels and staff levels, including:

    • Eliminating the following positions: Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Federal Programs, Special Education Coordinator, and Director of Operations (actually through contract with MOESC)
    • Reducing the Building and Grounds Supervisor position to a half-time status.
    • A reduction in force for 12 teaching positions, with a net suspension of contracts for 9 individual teachers.
    • A reduction in force for an additional 7 teaching and other positions, with a net suspension of contracts for 6 employees.
    • Elimination of an educational assistant and administrative support staff position, with a net suspension of contracts for 2 employees.

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    Mail Processing Ending in Mansfield

    by  • May 18, 2012 • News & Views • 2 Comments

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    Despite the passage of resolutions opposing the change by county commissioners and city councils – including one passed by Galion City Council in May of 2011 (see our coverage here) – the US Postal Service announced on Thursday that it is proceeding with plans to close its mail processing center in Mansfield.

    The move, opposed for both the prospect in increased time for mailing and the impact on local jobs, is part of a national plan to close approximately half of the Postal Service’s mail-sorting offices. In Mansfield, that includes some 115 current positions.

    Mansfield is hardly alone in Ohio in facing this future. The postal sorting center in Dayton will also close, and some 432 jobs will be eliminated in the process.

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    Philadelphia Company, Inquirer Owner Grows with Lima Paper Acquisition

    by  • May 18, 2012 • News & Views • 0 Comments

    Ohio Community Media, an entity owned by Philadephia-based private equity firm Versa Capital Management, has added four new newspapers to its lineup this week, including the Lima News.

    Before the move, Ohio Community Media oversaw the operation of 14 daily and 30 weekly publications. Locally, that number includes the Galion Inquirer, Morrow County Sentinel, and Delaware Gazette.

    According to Dow Jones, the transaction also involved papers in Illinois and Missouri, and is contrary to Versa’s past tendency to sell assets shortly after acquisition.

    The sale comes as Freedom Newspapers, which once owned the Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum, continues to divest itself of its once large portfolio of media holdings. The chain emerged from bankruptcy in 2010, the same year as the bankruptcy filing of Brown Publishing.

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    Masonic Scholarships Awarded

    by  • May 18, 2012 • News & Views • 0 Comments

    Recipients of the Galion Lodge 414 Masonic Scholarship, L to R: Chelsea Makeever, Brittany Smith, Jessie Iiams, Alexis Brammer, Jon Shock

    Five local high school seniors, three from Galion High School and two from Crestline High School, each received a $1,000 scholarship last night during an event held at the Galion Masonic Lodge.

    After a welcoming dinner, members of Galion Masonic Lodge No. 414 invited guests to join them in the lodge’s main room for remarks and the receipt of scholarship checks from the Galion Lodge’s current Worshipful Master, Mike Swick.

    After Swick shared opening remarks to begin the event, Chaplain Val Young presented an overview of Freemasonry, which he described as an organization dedicated to “…trying to make good men better men.” Young shared a bit of the history of Freemasonry and dispelled common myths. It is not a clandestine or secret organization, he remarked, as Masons typically will wear … Read the rest

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