The North East football team will be playing their home opener on August 23rd at Iroquois instead of Ted Miller Stadium. The construction project to install plastic grass was scheduled to be complete in time for the opener, but is behind schedule due to unspecified construction delays. A story on GoErie states the paper was […]
Ohio Bill to Require All Pro Teams Play on Natural Grass While NE School District Spends $3.7 Million on Plastic Grass
Right next door, in the state of Ohio, legislators have introduced bipartisan House Bill 605 that requires natural grass in all professional sports stadiums due to higher incidence of non-contact lower extremity injuries on artificial surface playing fields. This applies to pro football, baseball and soccer. The bill has the support of the NFL Players […]
NE School Board Agrees to Amend Heard Park Restrictive Covenant at Borough Request
Monday’s special meeting of the North East School Board was, by far, the most interesting in recent memory. The discussion was spirited, sometimes contentious, but definitely informative. The topic centered around an amendment requested by North East Borough to a restrictive covenant on the borough property that makes up Heard Park. The covenant was originally […]
Final Revision of North East School Budget Recommends 3.94 Percent Tax Increase
The final revision of the 2024-2025 North East School District budget recommends a 3.94 percent tax increase. The budget will be voted on at the Thursday, June 20th school board meeting. This is the final school board meeting until August 1st. You can review the agenda and the final budget that will be voted on […]
If Public School Priorities Are Different Than Yours, Maybe School Choice is the Answer
It appears the North East School District believes artificial turf is really important and they’ve committed $3.5 million to replace the track and field with the best synthetic materials your money can buy. If the NESD was a huge and growing feeder school supplying football players to Big Ten college teams, you might agree it […]
NE School District Agrees to Creation of the North East High School Clay Target Team
At the last school board meeting on May 16th, the school board voted for a Memorandum of Understanding between the school district and the North East Sportsmen’s Club to form the North East High School Clay Target Team. Scott Hammer, Sportsmen’s Club President: …proposed to form a Clay Target Team for the purpose of training […]
NE School District Now Recommends a Proposed Tax Increase of 4.97 Percent
The latest version of the proposed 2024-2025 school budget recommends a 4.97 percent tax increase versus the previous 5.94 percent. There is a great deal to see in the agenda and backup documents for the May 16th, 2024 school board meeting. Please be sure to look them over before the meeting if you plan to […]
Proposed Higher Taxes, Major Track and Field Projects and Fewer Students
School districts across the country are shrinking, nearby New York schools are merging and their athletic teams struggle for lack of students. As the North East School District considers the 2024-2025 budget with a recommended tax increase of 5.94 percent and as a new $3.5 million artificial turf project is about to start, you might […]
NE School District Begins $3.5 Million Track and Field Makeover While Recommending a Tax Increase of Almost 6 Percent
If you haven’t already noticed, the North East School District is just beginning the $3.5 million artificial turf project. Do you remember when the school board gathered input from the entire North East community about whether spending millions of taxpayer dollars for artificial turf would be a good idea? You don’t? Well, I don’t either. […]
North East School District 2024-2025 Budget Proposes 5.94 Percent Tax Increase
The proposed 2024-2025 budget for the North East School District will be presented at the board meeting on Thursday, April 18th and it contains a recommended tax increase of 5.94 percent. This follows last year’s increase of 3.82 percent and in the year prior to that 3.83 percent. Final adoption is scheduled for June 6th, […]