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Police Chief Morgan retires

Submitted by BridgetB on August 30, 2018 - 3:20pm

Sylvia Morgan has served in many capacities, including patrol officer, narcotics inspector with the Illinois State Police, and criminal investigator over 25 dedicated years of service in the protection and service to the public.

Acting Police Chief upon her retirement will be Bryant Seraphin. He said she has served in many ranks, including patrol sergeant, temporary lieutenant, Street Crimes Unit sergeant, Deputy Chief of Police, and most recently Urbana City Police Chief.

Notably, she was also the first-ever female Chief of Police for the City of Urbana. Morgan wanted little fanfare about her retirement. “I’m really looking forward to traveling and spending time with my kids,” she said.

Champaign-Urbana Youth Sustainability Summit

Submitted by ScottT on August 30, 2018 - 8:33am

Date:

October 13, 2018 - 9:00am to 4:00pm

Mission

Educate youth on the impact of global climate change.
Advocate for action on a local level.
Initiate dialogue and solutions within our community.

About

We are a group of students from schools all around the community, including Urbana, Central and Uni High. We organized the CU Youth Sustainability Summit with the goal to educate our peers on the topic and impact of global climate change, and to engage them in the discussion of possible solutions.

Gun violence devastates families, neighborhoods and communities

Submitted by BridgetB on August 29, 2018 - 4:00pm

"Gun violence devastates families, neighborhoods and communities. When it sweeps up our children, it leaves us at a loss for words. Recent shootings in Champaign and Urbana have left a 14-year-old paralyzed and a 16-year-old dead. Others were lucky enough to escape injury… this time. They are scarred by the experience nonetheless.

We don’t have a solution today. But we do know that no families are really safe unless all families are safe. No community is really healthy unless all neighborhoods are healthy. We must all work to end gun violence and we need help. There are children and families grieving today and we’re heartsick for them.

We also know that kids don’t get shot because they “slipped”---they got shot because our society has slipped. Our family, neighborhood, and community relationships have slipped. We need to rebuild those relationships, person by person, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood and it will take our community working together to accomplish that."

Urbana Names New Fire Chief

Submitted by ElizabethD on August 28, 2018 - 10:58am

Urbana Welcomes New Assistant Principal to the District

Submitted by BridgetB on August 22, 2018 - 11:11am

Urbana School District #116 is pleased to introduce LaSonia Reed as our new Assistant Principal at Urbana Early Childhood School. Ms. Reed is starting off the new school year at UECS.

Prior to coming to Urbana, Ms. Reed served as Principal Intern and Lead Teacher with West-Harvey Dixmoor School, District 147. She filled those posts since June of 2016. She has had several teaching positions with Chicago Public Schools and two charter school networks. She has taught most grades at the elementary level, including 3rd and 4th grades at CPS, and Kindergarten through 2nd at different charter schools. She has held the Lead Teacher position at several institutions, along with being an instructional and professional development leader, teacher mentor/coach, and curriculum writer during her time with West-Harvey Dixmoor schools.

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