Utica Schools Acting Superintendent Brian Nolan confirmed several allegations made in the investigator's report into Superintendent Bruce Karam on Monday, one day before the report is officially presented to the Board of Education. Karam has been on administrative leave with pay since October of last year.
Update: At approximately 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Utica Police said on Facebook that normal educational activities had resumed at Proctor High School. Officers and school staff cleared each room in the building to ensure safety. In providing the udpate information, UPD officials also noted there were similar phony shots fired called at schools across New York State earlier in the day...
The Utica School Board has placed an employee on administrative leave and named an acting School Superintendent pending an investigation, according to a livestream of a special board meeting Tuesday night.
Many people will be back in Utica this weekend for the first time in a while for the city's 45th running of the Boilermaker Road Race, and some new changes downtown will open some eyes, and probably get some people driving the wrong way.
Utica attorney and school board member Joseph Hobika Jr. was elected Utica School Board president on Tuesday night at the board's organizational meeting. Danielle Padula was elected Vice President.Hobika replaced retiring President and former Utica Mayor Louis LaPolla.
During a Utica School Board meeting late last year, board leadership admitted that a local businessman was aggravating the district with his consistent emails and Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests. Now, the businessman, Howard Potter, is asking why it took so long for the district to respond to him, and why he was overcharged for the documents he requested.