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  • 4 days ago | signalakron.org | Andrew Keiper

    The University of Akron under President R.J. Nemer is laser-focused on cutting costs and balancing its budget, part of his four-year financial plan. The first step? Voluntary faculty buyouts and reducing the number of majors offered at the university, a contentious process that raised the ire of some faculty and students but already has saved the university just under $3 million.

  • 4 days ago | signalakron.org | Andrew Keiper

    Akron’s Kenmore neighborhood can breathe a sigh of relief. The area is getting a new school. After more than a month of doubt about whether the plan to build a new combined Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Pfeiffer Elementary on the site of the old Kenmore High School, the Akron Board of Education on Monday night approved an amended plan to move forward with the project as planned.

  • 1 week ago | signalakron.org | Andrew Keiper

    The Kenmore school project is shrinking. In recent days, Akron Public Schools administrators have embarked on a plan to eliminate most of the project’s estimated $13 million budget shortfall by discarding and reducing material and construction costs. The project aims to build a new Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Pfeiffer Elementary in one building on the site of the old Kenmore High School.

  • 1 week ago | signalakron.org | Andrew Keiper

    Akron’s Citizens’ Police Oversight Board on Wednesday evening reviewed four use-of-force incidents and one complaint involving the Akron Police Department, with the board — including three new members — voting to approve Police Auditor Anthony Finnell’s recommendations.

  • 1 week ago | signalakron.org | Andrew Keiper

    Pride runs deep in Akron at 1040 Copley Road — especially with Buchtel Community Learning Center’s football team. The program’s many accolades include back-to-back state football championships in 1987 and 1988. Nearly four decades later, the school’s Griffin football stadium is slated to acquire a new press box.

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