Browse past news stories for Chardon High School in Chardon, OH.
- Chardon Fireworks Relocated – for Now (2024)
While Chardon’s Independence Day fireworks display has had a home at Chardon High School for ... - Jumping to conclusions at Chardon High School (2023)
Chardon High School, a public high school about 35 miles outside of Cleveland, Ohio, was the scene of a deadly shooting ... - Chardon High School National Honor Society holds induction ceremony (2023)
Chardon High School’s National Honor Society chapter hosted its annual induction ceremony on ... - Chardon High School shooting 10 years later: Remembering teens killed, heroes from that day (2022)
Ohio (WJW)– It’s been 10 years since a student opened fire in the cafeteria at Chardon ... - Chardon School News (2021)
Chardon High School senior Charlotte Bennett has qualified as a 2022 National Merit semifinalist. The ... - Chardon High School juniors inducted into Auburn Career Center chapter (2021)
Chardon High School juniors Charlotte Kurtz and Connor Rozic who were both inducted into Auburn ... - Chardon High School to reopen Friday after CO leak (2020)
CHARDON, OH (WOIO) - Chardon High School will resume its regular schedule Friday after ... - New state center works to head off school violence (2019)
Three students died and three more were wounded when a student opened fire at Chardon High School east of Cleveland in 2012. Two pupils were shot and another two injured when ... - Chardon High School hero decides to run for Ohio House of Representatives (2019)
CHARDON, Ohio-- A local teacher and football coach who heroically chased an active school shooter out of Chardon High School has ... - Former Chardon High School tutor pleads guilty to inappropriate relationship with student - cleveland.com (2016)
CHARDON, Ohio -- A former Chardon High School tutor pleaded guilty Wednesday to having a sexual relationship with a student. Tyler Merkle, 26, of Chardon, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual ... - Chardon High School employee pleads guilty to sexual battery - WKYC-TV (2016)
CHARDON, OHIO - A Chardon High School employee has pleaded guilty to sexual battery stemming from allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a student. According to Andrew Cass of The News-Herald, ... - $400k raised for park honoring 2012 Chardon High School shooting victims - Cleveland 19 News (2016)
Toledo BladeCHARDON, Ohio (AP) - More than $400,000 in donations, grants and promises of services and equipment have been raised for a memorial park to honor the victims of a 2012 northeast Ohio school shooting.$400k raised for park honoring 2012 ... - Chardon High School students organize drug awareness picnic - News-Herald.com (2016)
Chardon High School students with help from teachers and community members are organizing a community drug abuse and awareness picnic July 29 at Munson ... - Summit County detail visits Chardon High School; shows adults what kids are hiding in plain sight these days - News-Herald.com (2016)
Copley Township Detective and juvenile investigator Paul Webb displays the ironically worded retail tags from a padded case intended to hold a pot pipe to the group of parents and other adults g ... - Merkle Faces Sexual Battery Charge Involving Chardon High School Student (w/Video) - Geauga Maple Leaf (2016)
Merkle, who is a part-time tutor/study hall monitor and assistant football coach at Chardon High School, is alleged to have had inappropriate conduct with a 15-year-old female student, according to multiple law enforcement sources familiar with his arrest.Tutor accused of inappropriate relationship with Chardon High School student appears in co ... - Tutor accused of inappropriate relationship with Chardon High School student appears in court - cleveland.com (2016)
CHARDON, Ohio -- The part-time Chardon High School tutor accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student appeared at his arraignment Wednesday in Chardon Municipal Court. Tyler Merkle, 26, of Chardon is charged with sexual battery, ...Merkle Faces Sexual Battery Charge Involving Chardon High School Student (w/Video)Geauga ... - Part-time Chardon High School employee arrested, accused of having relationship with student - cleveland.com (2016)
The man, who has not been formally charged, is a part-time tutor and coach at Chardon High School, according to an email sent to Chardon schools parents and staff from Superintendent Michael P. Hanlon Jr. The employee was taken into custody without ...Chardon High School staff member arrested for inappropriate relationship with studentfox8.com ... - Chardon High School staff member arrested for inappropriate relationship with student - fox8.com (2016)
CHARDON, OH – A male staff member at Chardon High School was arrested on Tuesday after allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a student. Members of the Geauga County Sheriff's office went to the high school Tuesday morning to take Ty ...Chardon High School staff member accused of having inappropriate relationship wit ... - Four years after shooting at Chardon High School, donations still needed for memorial - Cleveland 19 News (2016)
McKenna responded to the high school on that tragic day. Now, he's looking forward, doing his best to help the community heal. He says it took Columbine High School eight years to build their ... - Chardon High School Jazz Band Heads to Lakeland Festival - Geauga Maple Leaf (2016)
The Chardon High School Jazz Band, under the direction of Melissa Lichtler, will be traveling March 18 to perform at the 44th annual Lakeland Community College Jazz Festival ... - 4 years since Chardon High School shootings - WKYC-TV (2016)
It was a cold, wintry morning about 7:30 a.m. when gunfire rang out inside the Chardon High School cafeteria. In the end, three students -- Danny Pa ... - Timeline of T.J. Lane and the Chardon High School shootings - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com (2014)
NewsNet5.comT.J. Lane smirks as he listens to the judge during sentencing in Chardon, Ohio today. Lane was given three lifetime prison sentences without the possibility of parole for opening fire last year in a high school cafeteria in a rampage that left three ...Chardon High School shooter T.J. Lane has been c ...
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