WCS BOE names 2025 officers; sets meeting dates & times

The Warren City Schools Board of Education on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, elected Mr. Julian Walker as President and Mr. Patrick Flanagan as Vice President. The 2025 officers were named at the school board’s organizational meeting.  

The school board also set its 2025 meeting dates.

Meeting start times are 6 p.m. and they are held in the Warren G. Harding High School Cafetorium, unless otherwise specified. The meetings are available via Live Stream at warrencityschools.org.

The remaining 2025 meeting dates are:

  • January 28, Jefferson
  • February 25, Lincoln
  • March 25, McGuffey
  • April 15, Willard
  • May 13
  • June 3, BOE
  • June 3, BOE
  • June 30, BOE (Noon)
  • July 15, BOE
  • August 5, BOE
  • August 26
  • September 23
  • October 21
  • November 18
  • December 9


WCS’ PK Program Helps Usher In The Holiday Season During Annual Parade

Warren City Schools’ Preschool Program helped light up the festivities during the annual Hometown Holidays Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024.

The preschool program boarded its own decorated float to participate in the annual parade.

Warren G. Harding High School’s marching band and choir performed holiday favorites.

The Hometown Holidays celebration is a collaborative effort between the Fine Arts Council, the Trumbull County Historical Society, the Rotary Club, and the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library.

WCS students get taste of Mobile Market: Trumbull County’s store on wheels visits Lincoln PK-8

About 30 Warren City Schools students spent some time shopping inside the Trumbull County Mobile Market when the store on wheels visited the Lincoln PK-8 School on Tuesday, Dec. 17.

The students each had $5 vouchers to purchase anything inside the store they wanted. Some bought fresh vegetables and fruit; others chose pudding and ice cream snacks. One students bought a loaf of bread to take home.

“It really is a great way for them to learn budgeting and the importance of making wise, and healthy, choices,” said school/community liaison Sonya Williams.

The mobile market is a 33-foot specially outfitted vehicle with refrigerated units for meats, juices and other foods needing refrigeration, as well as shelving for nonrefrigerated produce, canned, boxed and bottled foods.

The vehicle travels countywide, offering fresh meats, vegetables and other grocery items to area residents.

The Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing our Neighborhoods, also known as ACTION, and the nonprofit Flying HIGH Inc. teamed up to bring the Mobile Market to residents who don’t have easy access to brick-and-mortar grocery stores.

Some of the food products sold in the buses are bought from area farmers.

WGH students shine at Twenty Under 20 Banquet

Eight Warren City students were among Trumbull County’s top 20 individuals under the age of 20 recognized at a banquet on Wednesday, Dec. 11.

WGH’s Courtney Wilcox made it into the top five. Each of the top five recipients received a portion of $1,000 to be donated to a charity of their choice.

Harding students Samantha Barkley, Jane Faulk, Sophie Gardner, Sarah Herko, Yurielis Navarro Jimenez and Sonia Pitts and Nicole Ruckman were also among this year’s 20 recipients.

Each year, the event, co-sponsored by the Tribune Chronicle, Akron Children’s and its newest sponsor, AVI Foodsystems, recognizes 20 students who have gone into their communities to make a difference in the lives of others. This was the event’s 12th year.

The committee weighted 50% of the students’ overall score as leadership, 25% as extracurricular activities and 25% as academic achievement when they chose the winners out of more than 50 nominations. Each of the honorees received a flame award and a one-year digital subscription to the Tribune Chronicle.

WGH Quiz Bowl teams score high at TCTC event

The Harding Quiz Bowl teams competing at the TCTC academic challenge tournament Saturday, December 7, 2024, made impressive scores while competing against more than a dozen teams from across Trumbull County.

The A team, consisting of Rose Strother, Zavier Taff and Sophie Gardner went all the way through to the semi-finals and beat Girard with a score of 44-37 to take 3rd place overall.

The field represented 16 teams from around the county. Harding’s B team of Daniel Long, Eliana Burker, and Donovan Stringer also did a great job making it to the 5th round before being eliminated.

Lincoln program helps students, families through holiday grieving process

A new program at the Lincoln PK-8 School is helping students and families who are experiencing grief this holiday season.

The program kicked off Wednesday, December 4, 2024, with a session designed to provide support, resources and an awareness of how difficult time of the year can be for those grieving or experiencing loss.

School counselor Suzanne Goodyear planned and organized the event. About 25 PK-8 students/families registered to attended on Wednesday. Participants made a craft and received a resource bag and refreshments.

Gov. Mike DeWine joins WCS students, staff & community in celebrating the opening of the new Student Recreation and Wellness Center

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine joined Warren City Schools students, staff and community leaders on Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, to celebrate the opening of the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

Gov. DeWine assisted students and Warren Board of Education in cutting the ribbon at the new facility located on the Warren G. Harding High School Campus. The governor toured the center during his visit.

Read some of Gov. DeWine’s remarks HERE.

By Virginia Shank / Schools Public Relations

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WCSD Announces 2024 Winter Concert Season

The 2024 Warren City Schools Winter Concert Season will kick off at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, with a performance by the Willard PK-8 School Band and Choir.

Concerts will run through Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, when the Warren G, Harding High School Choirs perform at 7 p.m.

Here is the complete schedule: