Key Club Hosts Senior Citizen Prom

Even held at St. Mary of the Woods

Prom Season Under Way, Show Us Your Pics

Let's see those sequin and Gunne Sax dresses!

It’s Prom Time! Avon High School’s prom will be held May 19 this year at LaCentre in Westlake. Cost to attend prom is $67 each. How does this rank nationally? Looking around the Internet shows a significant range of ticket prices from $20 (Booker High School, Sarasota, Fl) up to $80 per couple. It’s a far cry from the proms of the 1950s and 60s when proms were often held at the high school gym. Of course, the get-ups were a little different back then to. We’re asking students and parents to share their prom photos from this year and years gone by. It’s quick and easy. Click the "Upload Photos & Video" button in this post. You can share as many pictures as you want, and give them all kinds of great captions. The more the better. This doesn'…

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Board Projects 27 Teachers To Be Hired For Next 5 Years

District makes moves to keep pace with student growth

The Avon Local Schools approved its 2012 fiscal forecast that projects the district will hire around 27 new teachers over the next five years at the board of education’s Tuesday meeting at Heritage North Elementary School. Ten teachers are projected to be hired in 2013, 5½ for 2014 and 2015, and six in 2016 in order to align with school’s anticipated growth at the middle- and high-school levels, board treasurer Kent Zeman said. “This district has the lowest expenditure per people in the state. While that’s a good thing on the budgetary side, it doesn’t always translate to a good thing on the instructional side,” Zeman said. “I think this board is recognizing that we need to ensure that our instruction is appropriate for our students.” Also…

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Avon Sports Roundup: Eagles Win WSC Track Meet

Wiley, Fasciana,Sturm lead Avon to winning effort

Avon junior Brentten Wiley won the 110-meter and 300 hurdles and ran the first leg of the winning 4x200 relay team as the Eagles boys’ track and field team captured the West Shore Conference Championships at Avon Middle School on Friday. The Avon boys finished with 189 points beating out North Ridgeville (148), Midview (89), Bay (84), Vermilion (55), Rocky River (57) and Elyria Catholic (35). The Avon girls didn’t win an individual event and took fourth with 116 points. Rocky River won with 161 points. Wiley finished in a time of 15.35 seconds in the 110 hurdles and 40.91 in the 300 hurdles. Joining Wiley on the 4x200 team were sophomore Antonio Orr, freshman Jake Bitter and sophomore John DeMarco (1:31.48). Sophomore Austin Fasciana won …

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Avon High School Ranked 66th in U.S. News Rankings

School earns "Silver Award" for its rank.

Avon High School was assessed as the 66th best high school in Ohio and the 1,325 best in the country, according to the annual rankings prepared by U.S. News & World Report. Cincinnati’s Walnut Hills High School ranked first in Ohio while Dallas, TX-based School for the Talented and Gifted was ranked No. 1 in the nations. More than 22,000 public high schools were reviewed. The high school, which counted 929 students at the time of the study, received the silver medal and was noted for its participation rate (31 percent) in Advanced Placement courses. Students are also 96 percent proficient in reading and 91 percent proficient in math, according to the magazine. The school received a 25.9 out of 100 in the College Readiness index (based on …

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After 25 Years, 'Miss Laura' Gets Her Retirement Party

Laura's Learning Treehouse will host an anniversary party/retirement party this Saturday.

Back in the day, when Avon was just a small rural town on the verge of turning into the growing suburb it is today, Laura Andrews saw the need for a local day-care center. On April 1, 1987, when her daughter Shannon was in second grade, Andrews founded Laura’s Learning Treehouse on Colorado Boulevard. Twenty-five years later, the booming suburb of Avon has dramatically changed, but the daycare center has kept close to its roots. “Miss Laura” retired several years ago, but sold the business to her daughter Shannon Scheetz, now grown and married. Scheetz, recognizing that her mother never had a proper retirement party, is hoping to get families and past students of the daycare center together this (Friday). The celebration will be twofold: …

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Former Superintendent Reitenbach Tapped for Lakewood School Positions

Recently resigned Avon schools superintendent will run the district’s recreation and human resources departments.

The Lakewood school board has tapped the recently retired Avon School District superintendent as its new recreation director who will also run the school district's human resources department. The board voted Monday to hire Jim Reitenbach, who has been the Avon schools superintendent since 1999. Reitenbach resigned from Avon schools in December. Reitenbach will lead the district’s shaken-up recreation department, as well as its human resources department. The recreation director's post opened after the board did not renew long-time Director Erin Fach's contract's earlier this year. The human resources job is open because Director Deb Cahoon is retiring this year. Reitenbach will begin his new post on Aug. 1 at a salary of $113,000.  …

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