Leading off today: Liverpool voters who rejected the school district's largest-ever capital proposal last month will get another crack at a scaled-back version that will address only the high school and the athletic stadium,
The Post-Standard reported.
Superintendent Jan Matousek said the $6.3 million project would demolish the current stadium and replace the foundation, artificial-turf field, track, lighting, scoreboard and press box, and renovate the concession stand and bathrooms.
The project also includes about $200,000 for electrical work at the high school.
Liverpool's 9-year-old artificial turf in the stadium was declared unusable in December.
The new proposal will be voted on June 11. A $44.5 million proposal that voters rejected Feb. 27 included work at three other school buildings.
Matousek said the stadium was selected for repairs first because physical education classes and sports teams needed new locations this spring. The school buildings are still operational, she said. There is no timeline yet for work at the other schools.
Ex-athlete faces federal charges: former Lackawanna High School football and basketball star Deron Adams was arrested on federal drug charges Monday at his Blasdell home.
Police said Adams, 30, was a "very active" cocaine dealer in Western New York, The Buffalo News reported. He is accused of felony drug possession, conspiracy and gun possession counts. He was arrested after an investigation by local police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Adams was the subject of controversy in 1996 when Lackawanna school officials allowed him to participate in sports after he had spent four months in jail for assaulting an off-duty police officer.
Fired Newark Valley teacher suing: Calling it guilt by association, former Newark Valley Central School District coach and phys ed teacher Lyndsey Wilcox has filed a lawsuit against the district contending she was improperly fired after being wrongfully accused of failing to report alleged sexual misconduct by her boyfriend, Todd J. Broxmeyer, The Press & Sun-Bulletin reported. She denies the charge.
Broxmeyer, who worked with field hockey leagues in Broome County and New Jersey, faces three counts of forcible rape in connection with the teenage girls he coached. Broxmeyer, who was arrested in December and remains in custody, is also charged in federal court with the production and possession of child pornography.
Wilcox's lawsuit contends Newark Valley Superintendent Mary Ellen Grant and Principal Diane Arbes accused her of knowing about and failing to report Broxmeyer's alleged
