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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
House, but not school, evacuated for gas leak
About 20 Columbia Gas customers, including Urbana High School, will be without gas service while workers repair and then test the safety of a broken gas line.
Workers are repairing the line, which was broken by construction crews working on Washington Avenue, and have shut down the gas service to those areas while doing so, said Ken Stammon, Columbia Gas spokesman.
The company will do door-to-door checks to make sure each customer can safely restore gas service before service will be fully fixed, said Stammon.
Urbana High School did not evacuate this morning for the potential gas leak, according to school officials.
Superintendent Susan McCarty said Tuesday morning that students were out of the building while officials looked into a gas leak near the school. A representative from McCarty’s office clarified later Tuesday that houses were evacuated but the school - which was not threatened by the potential leak - did not.
A construction crew working on Washington Avenue hit a gas line, said Stammon.
One home was evacuated. There are four in the vicinity of the leak but two are unoccupied right now and one is vacant, said Stammon.
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Two vie for Ohio schools chief post
Two people remain in the state board of education’s search for a new schools chief.
I haven’t touched on this for a while — no one local was in the running — but now that they are down to two I thought I’d mention it again.
The two candidates are: Deborah S. Delisle, superintendent of Cleveland Heights-University Heights schools, and Catherine Cross Maple, deputy secretary of education in New Mexico.
The board meets next week for its monthly meeting and hopes to make a decision then. The Columbus Dispatch and Cleveland Plain-Dealer have been following this story pretty closely, if you’re looking for more background.
I’ll post the final decision here when it comes out. Stay tuned.
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Springfield to examine detailed data
Springfield board members will hear this week a detailed report on local achievement data from Interim Superintendent Don Thompson.
This will be a very in-depth look at Springfield’s achievement data from the state report card. The district moved to “Continuous Improvement” status for the first time, largely due to a new standard called “value added,” which rewards districts for making a year’s improvement with students, regardless of the proficiency level the students ends the year at.
Thompson will present to the board at the 6 p.m. board meeting Thursday, Oct. 9 at the city forum.
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