Wednesday, May 16, 2012
North Canton City Schools Board of Education is slated to meet at 6 p.m. tonight in the Hoover High Media Center
Here's what's in store for North Canton City School District's Board of Education meeting, taking place at 6 p.m. today inside the Hoover High Media Center: Interested in what else is happening at the meeting tonight? You can find the full agenda in the PDFs section of this update. Have questions? Leave them for North Canton Patch Editor Morgan Day in the comments section!
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The forum takes place at 6:30 p.m. May 23 inside the university's Barrette Business & Community Center
The North Canton community will get a chance to discuss energy development at a public forum hosted by U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci at Walsh University next week. The forum takes place at 6:30 p.m. May 23 inside the university's Barrette Business and Community Center. “With improvements to the process of extracting natural gas and oil, Ohio has an opportunity to become a major player in the domestic energy game,” Renacci said in a news release. “That means more jobs for Ohioans and more affordable energy for all Americans. Still, it is important we ensure energy production is undertaken in an environmentally sensitive manner. This forum will bring together a diverse group of experts to speak with the Canton community about what is occurring here …
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Walsh University
2020 E Maple St, North Canton, OH
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North Canton City Council members will view a 4.9-acre property south of Applegrove Drive NW, and west of North Main Street, before taking action on proposed zoning changes
Monday, May 14, 2012
Councilman Mark Cerreta pitched the volunteer program at last week's North Canton City Council meeting. It's up for a first reading at tonight's meeting.
North Canton City Council will meet at 7 p.m. tonight inside the Council Chambers in City Hall. Before the meeting, though, will be public hearings taking place at 6:15 p.m. regarding a request for an amendment to the North Canton Zoning Ordinance requesting a zone change for a building facing Applegrove Street NW. At the Council of the whole meeting, the public will get a chance to address Council. Also on the agenda for the night are first readings for ordinances that would establish a Neighbors Helping Neighbors program (read more about that in our last North Canton City Council story) and appoint three citizens to the Community Disaster Relief Fund Committee. Council members had announced before that U.S. Rep Jim Renacci would attend …
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North Canton City Council Chambers
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Christina Weyrick-Cooper will begin a marketing position with the North Canton Public Library after a successful stint with the North Canton Area Chamber of Commerce
A few parties will benefit from Christina Weyrick-Cooper's change of employment. She will soon begin a full-time marketing position at the North Canton Public Library. The staff there gets the outreach expertise of the woman behind events like North Canton Gone Mad. Even her former employer, the North Canton Area Chamber of Commerce, finds a silver lining in Weyrick-Cooper's departure. "With the library being a chamber member, she'll continue helping us as a volunteer," Chamber President Doug Lane said. "We're not losing her totally. We'll be able to call upon her (for support)." Wednesday was Weyrick-Cooper's last day as the chamber's outreach manager. Lane said she helped boost attendance at meetings in the past year and increased the …
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North Canton Public Library
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The deal affects bus drivers, secretaries, aides and others in the North Canton Classified Personnel Association
The North Canton City Schools Board of Education approved a new three-year labor contract with the North Canton Classified Personnel Association. The board unanimously approved the pact with the Classified Association, which represents bus drivers, secretaries, food service personnel, custodians, mechanics, classified librarians, aides, monitors, maintenance employees, interpreters, and technology support specialists. The action took place at a special board meeting Wednesday. Highlights of the new deal include the following: NCCPA President Tracie Heckaman shared her thoughts on the contract. “With the massive financial cuts to Ohio’s public education system, our recent contract was agreed upon with the best interest of our students in …
Chuck Osborne is collecting signatures in an effort to limit health insurance benefits for some city officials and their family members
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Thursday, May 10
To the Residents of North Canton: The petition that is now being circulated is called an Initiative. It is a right and a procedure by which citizens can propose a law by petition and ensure its submission to the electorate. The purpose of the Initiative is to reduce health care cost for the city’s self-funded health insurance plan by ending city-paid health insurance for family members of part-time elected officials and limiting city-paid health insurance benefits for individual part-time elected officials. The City of North Canton has four Ward Councilmembers, three at-Large Councilmembers and a Mayor who all serve as part-time elected officials. These eight individuals attend four meetings per month that last approximately two hours each…
Mayor David Held gave the State of the City Address Wednesday night and focused on what it will take for the city to bounce back after the loss of the Hoover Company
Still on the rebound from losing the Hoover Company in 2008, the city of North Canton has focused its attention on maintaining a lean government and, of course, building up the Hoover District with more jobs. Mayor David Held went over those points and more at Wednesday night's State of the City Address inside Walsh University's Barrette Business & Community Center. Although the loss of the Hoover Company was a massive blow to the city, Held was unwavering in his message: North Canton is on its way back up. And that, he said, is because of the hard work of those working in the city. "It's not just one person; it's the state, it's the grants, it's the economic development director. It's the engineer and our city administrator. There are so …
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Friends and family members of Cody Dollinger and Matthew Buzzard watched as the two men were sworn in as full-time North Canton police officers Monday night
The North Canton Police Department officially welcomed two new faces to the force Monday night as officers Cody Dollinger and Matthew Buzzard were sworn in as full-time officers. "I noticed they both have a strong desire to become police officers," Police Chief Stephan Wilder said at the swearing-in ceremony that took place just before the North Canton City Council meeting. "They've got the heart, and they've got the desire and that means a whole lot when you're focused on going at this career." The addition of Dollinger and Buzzard brings the number of officers up to 15, Wilder said. "I think they both have good heads on their shoulders. They're intelligent. And they're exercising good common sense, which I think are good qualities for …
City officials are supportive of a wireless emergency notification system that enables dispatchers to send a text, email and phone call during emergencies. The system was discussed at Monday night's North Canton City Council meeting.
Emergency notifications — like a heads up about a flood, missing child or boil alert — could be making their way to North Canton employees and residents via text message, email and phone call soon. City officials discussed the Wireless Emergency Notification System (WENS) that makes spreading the word about emergencies more efficient at Monday night's North Canton City Council meeting. "We can notify numerous phones, numerous texts, numerous emails at the touch of a button," said North Canton Fire Chief John Bacon, who led the discussion about the system that night. It works in a few ways: For one, department heads can notify their specific employees. Groups could range from City Council to snow plow crews to police officers. All alerts to…
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Mary Lynne Zahler
5:33 pm on Thursday, May 10, 2012
Christina is a wonderful professional ansd person, and she will bring so much to the North Canton Library! We are all fortunate to have her working in our city! more ›