AKRON
Wounded man found in car
AKRON: Police are investigating after a man was found seriously wounded by a gunshot to the head inside a Chevy Trailblazer on Tuesday afternoon.
The Akron man, 26, was found at about 2:30 p.m. in the 2700 block of Cromwell Drive. He was transported to Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Police did not identify the injured man pending family notification.
Police have not uncovered a motive and have no suspects. The shooting remains under investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 330-375-2490.
HIGHLAND LOCAL SchoolS
Looking at updates
GRANGER TWP.: School board members heard a presentation on “Educational Visioning” by William Prenosil of the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission.
Highland is looking at the possibility of replacing its aging elementary schools, and updating its middle school. Community surveys about the facilities will begin after the first of the year.
Meanwhile, Prenosil said the board should consider going through the process of educational visioning. The process would allow the district to consider facilities which would better reflect the way they would want to educate students in the future.
The team involved in the visioning would include teachers, administrators, students, community members and others. The educational needs would then form the foundation of the architect’s design.
He said that appropriate facilities can have a huge impact on enabling these teaching methods to be successful. He also said that flexibility of learning spaces is a key element in planning.
STARK COUNTY
New zoning administrator
LAKE TWP.: Following an executive session, township trustees appointed Nicole Wilkinson as the township zoning administrator at their meeting Monday night. She will begin work on Jan. 1 and be paid $22 per hour.
In other business, trustees approved a contract with Todd’s Enviroscapes Inc. for snow and ice removal around the township hall this winter at a cost of $3,350.
They also approved drop-off agreements with the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District for recycling and yard waste drop-off for 2017 and approved the disposal of old/unused phone systems through the Lake Township E-Waste recycle program.
Uniontown Police Chief Harold Britt told the board the Uniontown Police Department hosted 24 kids in their Shop With a Cop program, and raised enough funds to provide gift cards for food for their families.
Due to the Christmas holiday, trustees moved their next meeting to 6:30 p.m. Dec. 27 and set their reorganizational meeting for 2017 for 8:30 a.m. Dec. 30.
STATE NEWS
Man crashes into building
GALLIPOLIS: A Point Pleasant man, who reportedly crashed into an apartment complex Friday with an infant child in the back of the vehicle, was charged with child endangerment and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Gallia County Sheriff’s Office detectives in the small town in southeast Ohio town responded to the scene.
The driver was identified as Danny Vanscoy, 36.
Officers on the scene said there was a “full-size truck partially inside an apartment.”
Officers approached the vehicle and described Vanscoy as having labored breathing. They reported that they saw an infant in the back seat.
Initially, officers were unable to wake the driver. Vanscoy, who reportedly had no memory of driving into the apartment, consented to standard field sobriety tests. He was placed under arrest. Vanscoy reportedly admitted to using heroin earlier that day. He was transported to the Gallia County Jail.
The child was unharmed during the incident.