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 ERIC HOFFMAN
Ridgedale educator to lead Riverdale
Times news bureau
MOUNT BLANCHARD - It will be a change of three letters for Eric Hoffman.
The now Ridgedale Schools superintendent was approved Monday night as Riverdale's new superintendent at the regular school board meeting.
Hoffman was approved for a three-year contract with a base salary of $95,000. He will begin on Aug. 1 and have a 20-day consulting contract until then.
"I think it was a good fit. It's very similar to what I'm doing now," Hoffman said.
He said it was important to get the district voters support.
"I think you have to make all the stakeholders of the district feel that you're spending their money wisely," Hoffman said. "I think we have to look at everything. I think I have to do a lot of listening for the next six months to a year and I've got to keep the traditions going and the things that we're doing well and I'll some different things, just not a lot right off the bat."
Hoffman has been at Ridgedale the past five years and prior to that he was in Coldwater as a superintendent for three and a half years.
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Kenton board cuts two middle school positions
By CHRISTINA HOY
Times staff writer
Members of the Kenton City School board were not in agreement when it came to cutting two positions at the middle school.
The motion to approve cutting a sixth grade teacher and health educator positions was made by board member Mike Baird, but he stood alone as silence fell over the board, causing his motion to fail due to a lack of a second.
Superintendent Doug Roberts came back to recommend cutting a sixth and eighth grade teaching positions at the middle school by not filling two vacant spots next year.
The board voted in favor of Robert's recommendation with Baird voting against because the student-teacher ratio was slightly increased by this fix, which allowed middle school teachers to still have two planning sessions. He said teachers at the middle school are the only ones out of the district to have two planning sessions.
Baird said with the original proposal would have kept the student-teacher ratio the same as it currently is but would take away one of the two planning sessions middle school teachers have.
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 Times photo/Christina Hoy
Retirement celebration
Friends, co-workers and family came together Friday afternoon to show Edith Spencer (second from left) how much they were going to miss her kind hand and soft heart around the office, school and nutrition sites. After 16 years of working with the Hardin County OSU Extension, Spencer retired as Family Nutrition Program coordinator. Some of her friends from the Senior Center in Kenton (from left) Inez Newland, Lonnie Campbell and Margaret J. Gossard came by to give her a hug during the party.
Spencer touched many lives through nutrition program
By CHRISTINA HOY
Times staff writer
The retirement party in honor of Edith Spencer on Friday was more than a celebration of her years with the Hardin County office of OSU Extension, but rather a time when those whose lives she touched gave back to her.
For the last 16 years she has been working with the extension office as the coordinator for the Family Nutrition Program. She began her career in 1992 when the program was just a pilot.
"Hardin County was one of 10 counties with the Family Nutrition pilot program," Spencer said. "At the end of the summer I was packing my desk up when Kathy Oliver came in and said where are you going? She told me the funding had came through so that the program could continue and I have been here ever since.
"My program was to work with those eligible for food stamps all over the county. I had classes in Alger, Ada, Forest and Kenton."
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Country ride
Riders enjoyed the scenic route down River Road Saturday morning for the annual Amish Buggy Ride, sponsored by Hardin Leadership II This year's ride began at McCullough Industries on County Road 175 in Kenton.
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