Newtown (Ohio, United States)

Type: City
Name: Newtown (Ohio, United States)
Country: United States
Latitude: 39.1245
Longitude: -84.361603
population: 2,303
First reported Feb 02 2013 - Updated Feb 02 2013 - 1 reports

Saturday Your Turn: Lock Down

After doing a “Your Turn” feature for years on a random basis — in which Bag’s authors step aside and turn the analysis over to you, we’d like to institute it on a more consistent basis on Saturdays. By the way, because we know many of you are regular ... [Published BAGnewsNotes - Feb 02 2013]
First reported Jan 30 2013 - Updated Jan 30 2013 - 1 reports

Keep Bridgeport Resource Officer

Bridgeport residents concerned about the safety of their children are being asked to do something about it. For a few dollars a year, they can continue providing excellent protection against violence in village schools.Professional resource officers, ... [Published Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register - Jan 30 2013]
First reported Jan 26 2013 - Updated Jan 26 2013 - 1 reports

1,224 Reasons to Pass New Gun Safety Bill

I hear people talking about how hard it will be to get this new public safety bill passed. The media pick this up and include it in all their stories, as if the playing field didn’t change after Newtown. They are being told that the NRA post Newtown ... [Published Firedoglake - Jan 26 2013]
First reported Jan 22 2013 - Updated Jan 22 2013 - 1 reports

Around Town: Super lawyers at Black, McCuskey named

Black McCuskey Souers & Arbaugh attorneys Randolph L. Snow, litigation; Joel K. Dayton, bankruptcy, creditor and debtor rights; Gust Callas, labor and employment; and Jim P. Kamerer, estate planning and probate, have all been named top attorneys for 2013 ... [Published Canton Repository - Jan 22 2013]
First reported Jan 18 2013 - Updated Jan 18 2013 - 1 reports

Findlay schools make safety a priority

FINDLAY, Ohio -While schools around the nation are still reacting to the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Findlay Schools Superintendent Dean Wittwer says Findlay's plan to upgrade school security has been in the works for more than a year. "We've ... [Published ABC 13 Toledo - Jan 18 2013]
First reported Jan 18 2013 - Updated Jan 18 2013 - 1 reports

Obama's Plan May Put More Guns in Schools

President Obama's new plan for reducing gun violence includes a $150 million proposal to give school districts money that they can use to hire specially trained police officers, social workers or other support staff. Recent polling shows some support ... [Published Mojo Feed | Mother Jones - Jan 18 2013]
First reported Jan 17 2013 - Updated Jan 18 2013 - 1 reports

Orrville science teacher to carry gun in class

A northeast Ohio school district plans to allow a science teacher to carry a firearm during class ? a move the superintendent says was prompted by last month?s mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.WEWS-TV in Cleveland reports that the science ... [Published Canton Repository - Jan 17 2013]
First reported Jan 17 2013 - Updated Jan 17 2013 - 1 reports

Stark lawmakers divided on guns

Unsurprisingly, reaction by local federal and state lawmakers to President Barack Obama?s plan to reduce gun violence split along party lines Wednesday.Democrats sounded receptive to Obama?s proposals to institute universal background checks for gun buyers, ... [Published Canton Repository - Jan 17 2013]
First reported Jan 11 2013 - Updated Jan 12 2013 - 2 reports

Ohio school district considers arming nonteachers to defend against shootings

TOLEDO, Ohio -- A rural school district in Ohio is drawing attention with its plans to arm a handful of its nonteaching employees with handguns this year -- perhaps even janitors.Four employees in the Montpelier schools have agreed to take a weapons training ... [Published Charleston Gazette - Jan 12 2013]
First reported Jan 03 2013 - Updated Jan 03 2013 - 1 reports

Charita Goshay: Many kids beyond Newtown need our help

Maybe it was the sheer volume of death, the breadth of such an unimaginable thing. Like nothing since Sept. 11, the mass murders in Newtown, Conn., shook this country to its core. A palpable grief cut across the artificial boundaries across which we bicker ... [Published Canton Repository - Jan 03 2013]
First reported Dec 21 2012 - Updated Dec 21 2012 - 1 reports

Islamic Center hosts Newtown remembrance

WEST CHESTER TWP., Ohio - More than 100 people braved the high winds Thursday night to attend an interfaith candlelight ceremony honoring the memories of those who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting on Dec. 14. The Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati ... [Published WCPO - Dec 21 2012]
First reported Dec 14 2012 - Updated Dec 14 2012 - 1 reports

Parents ask questions after Newtown

CINCINNATI - At the happiest time of year for many children came the unthinkable: a school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left 18 children and eight adults dead.Read more about the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootingThe Mental Health Association of ... [Published WCPO - Dec 14 2012]

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...Connecticut, Findlay Schools Superintendent Dean Wittwer says Findlay's plan to upgrade school security has been in the works for more than a year. "We've had these on the books since last summer, but we now see a now a need to start this project quicker."
"We spent a lot of time looking into this decision. We tried to make sure we took into account all the factors and at the end of the day we weren't interested in this being a news-making item. What we were interested in is doing what's in the best interest of the students entrusted to our care" Ritchie said
...The school plans to pay for them to attend a two-day training course. "Putting a firearm in a school is a huge step," Grime said. "We're going to do it properly. These people need the proper training." The move comes as districts and lawmakers across the nation weigh how to protect students following the school massacre in Newtown, Conn...

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Saturday Your Turn: Lock Down [Published BAGnewsNotes - Feb 02 2013]
Keep Bridgeport Resource Officer [Published Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register - Jan 30 2013]
1,224 Reasons to Pass New Gun Safety Bill [Published Firedoglake - Jan 26 2013]
Around Town: Super lawyers at Black, McCuskey n... [Published Canton Repository - Jan 22 2013]
Bill Clinton Warns Democrats Against Overreachi... [Published Outside The Beltway | OTB - Jan 20 2013]
Obama's inauguration day: all that's missing is... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Jan 20 2013]
Findlay schools make safety a priority [Published ABC 13 Toledo - Jan 18 2013]
Obama's Plan May Put More Guns in Schools [Published Mojo Feed | Mother Jones - Jan 18 2013]
Sheriff Jones: Put armed retired officers in sc... [Published Cincinnati Enquirer - Jan 17 2013]
Ohio school votes to arm science teacher [Published WCPO - Jan 17 2013]
Stark lawmakers divided on guns [Published Canton Repository - Jan 17 2013]
Orrville science teacher to carry gun in class [Published Canton Repository - Jan 17 2013]
Clarksville-Montgomery Officials Announce Armed... [Published Wake up America - Jan 12 2013]
Ohio school district considers arming nonteache... [Published Charleston Gazette - Jan 12 2013]
Montpelier school board approves employee conce... [Published ABC 13 Toledo - Jan 11 2013]
Obama Continues Cabinet Reshuffle, Taps Lew for... [Published PBS - Jan 10 2013]
First Thoughts: Biden's gun violence listening ... [Published First Read - Jan 09 2013]
CNN's GUT CHECK for January 8, 2013 [Published CNN Political Ticker - Jan 08 2013]
Safety first with BB guns [Published Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register - Jan 08 2013]
Mayor Hall gives impression of first year to co... [Published Newark Advocate - Jan 08 2013]
600 Teachers Apply to Learn How to Shoot a Gun ... [Published Mojo Feed | Mother Jones - Jan 04 2013]
Charita Goshay: Many kids beyond Newtown need o... [Published Canton Repository - Jan 03 2013]
Gun background checks set Ohio record in December [Published Newark Advocate - Jan 02 2013]
Local church to build school in Haiti in memory... [Published ABC 13 Toledo - Jan 02 2013]
Wonkbook: The fiscal cliff is finished [Published Ezra Klein - Jan 02 2013]
Gun Sales Continue to Surge, Fears of New Gun L... [Published Talkleft - Dec 30 2012]
Officers on Patrol In Our Schools [Published Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register - Dec 29 2012]
Passages 2012: Moments define their time and ours [Published Northwestern - Dec 28 2012]
Strike threat, fallout from Conn. shooting [Published Philadelphia Inquirer - Dec 23 2012]
Islamic Center hosts Newtown remembrance [Published WCPO - Dec 21 2012]
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Saturday Your Turn: Lock Down [Published BAGnewsNotes - Feb 02 2013]
After doing a “Your Turn” feature for years on a random basis — in which Bag’s authors step aside and turn the analysis over to you, we’d like to institute it on a more consistent basis on Saturdays. By the way, because we know many of you are regular ...
1,224 Reasons to Pass New Gun Safety Bill [Published Firedoglake - Jan 26 2013]
I hear people talking about how hard it will be to get this new public safety bill passed. The media pick this up and include it in all their stories, as if the playing field didn’t change after Newtown. They are being told that the NRA post Newtown ...
Bill Clinton Warns Democrats Against Overreachi... [Published Outside The Beltway | OTB - Jan 20 2013]
If there’s any Democrat in the United States who has experience in taking on America’s gun owners and the Second Amendment, it’s Bill Clinton. Mere weeks before the 1994 Presidential Election, the United States Congress passed, and Clinton signed, ...
Obama's inauguration day: all that's missing is... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Jan 20 2013]
Avowedly egalitarian US likes as much pomp and ceremony as it can muster when it proclaims to the world it has chosen America will on Monday witness its quadrennial act of political alchemy. The base metal of a previously partisan candidate is transformed ...
Obama's Plan May Put More Guns in Schools [Published Mojo Feed | Mother Jones - Jan 18 2013]
President Obama's new plan for reducing gun violence includes a $150 million proposal to give school districts money that they can use to hire specially trained police officers, social workers or other support staff. Recent polling shows some support ...
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