Solutions

CENTERBURG — Centerburg’s Intensive Care Unit program, implemented this school year, tracks missing assignments in a school-wide database and serves as a tool for academic interventions for struggling students.  If an assignment is missing, a student’s grade is “sick,” hence the name ICU, student services coordinator Stephanie Pound said.  Centerburg hired Pound and student liaison […]

MOUNT VERNON — Resumés detail a person’s previous employment. Interviews provide insight into personality traits. But, how can employers tell if a candidate is really the best fit for a job? A tool purchased by Opportunity Knox, Knox County’s employment center, is designed to assess just this.  The tool, AcuMax Index, is a cognitive reasoning […]

MANSFIELD — Nichole Hamilton has lived in her house for almost six years. It’s the only home her three youngest children can remember. So when she found out her landlord was selling the property, she was nervous about what the future held. “I was like ‘Oh my gosh, what am I going to do?” Hamilton […]

ASHLAND — Ashland City Schools is developing a district-wide mobile app for students, teachers, parents and community members after seeing success from the same app geared for the high school. Ben Spieldenner, the district’s director of tech integration and innovation, said he’d like the app to be available for download by January, after winter break. […]

MOUNT VERNON — Parenting requires love and a desire to protect and nurture children. Foster parenting calls for an extra dose of love and compassion, empathy and understanding. Uncertainly is one of the many challenges foster parents face. They might have the child for several weeks, months, or even years — or only a few […]

MANSFIELD — When one of Elizabeth Bucci’s students is having a bad day, they can let her know without saying a word. A social emotional check-in app allows students at Mansfield Middle School and Mansfield Senior High to notify a teacher if they are feeling angry, stressed or frustrated. “It’s decreased negative behaviors from our […]

ASHLAND — Rosalind “Bud” Brehm had always been dressed to impress.  “She wasn’t just dressed to the nines, sometimes she was dressed to the 19s,” one of her daughters Leslie Crabtree said. And, she always had every hair in place, her other daughter Laurie Loftis added. Brehm had also been known by the larger Ashland […]

MANSFIELD — This is the busiest time of year for white-tailed deer in Ohio, i.e. the fall breeding season. You’re driving through their living room on a daily basis, trying to get to your destination even as our four-legged friends are focused on amore — or perhaps avoiding a hunter. This combination of engine-powered vehicles […]

COLUMBUS — The City of Columbus has engaged a team led by Brown and Caldwell to deliver professional design services for a new and improved acid phase digestion system at its Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant (SWWTP). The SWWTP is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the country, situated on 288 acres and […]