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In news today…
The Cleveland City Schools Board of Education met on Thursday covering several items of business. Director of Schools Dr. Russell Dyer gave an update on the successful end of the school year. Emergency Operations Plan updates and revisions are in progress. CHS Summer School, as well as Summer Learning Camps at CMS, Arnold, Ross, and Mayfield are in progress. Dr. Dyer is proposing the use of the National Schools Public Relations Association to perform an audit of the city communications plan, which would cost between $20,000 and $25,000 depending on what is included. The Board ultimately voted to approve Dr. Dyer’s request. Director of Human Resources, Kelly Kiser, discussed a diversity plan, which would aim to create diversity within the school system’s employees to be more reflective of the student population. For example, he noted that a large part of Cleveland’s population is Hispanic, but the school system doesn’t have a similar representation on staff. The school system will collaborate with Lee University and UTC to increase the diversity of educator candidate pools.
Also in news today…
A Rhea County man charged in a Bradley County woman’s August murder has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Guy William O’Connell had been in a Douglas County, Kansas jail until he was recently returned back to Rhea County to face charges in the death of Amber Renee Monday, a 34-year-old Bradley County woman. She was last seen with him in August.
O’Connell is charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse. Records indicate he also faces two misdemeanor charges of failure to appear in court.
O’Connell was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and will be required to serve 100% of his sentence.
From the Chattanooga Times Free Press…
A lane shift on State Route 60 for work to construct a new entrance for Cleveland Middle School will remain for several months after some traffic is moved onto a newly-built traffic lane to the east in the $54 million project to expand the roadway to five lanes to be competed by August 2025.
The work to shift traffic started Thursday morning near Eveningside Drive and will extend about a half-mile north to Campbell Drive, Tennessee Department of Transportation spokesperson Rae-Anne Bradley said in a news release.
That means some delays and periodic lane closures until paving work is done to make the lane for the shift, Bradley said.
The shift will remain in place for several months while crews reconfigure the main entrance to Cleveland Middle School and perform grading and drainage work through the area, Bradley said. Signs are posted and flaggers will be on site to direct traffic flow.
Delays are expected, Bradley said, adding drivers should use extreme caution when traveling through the area and consider an alternate route when traffic is heavy.
