Buchtel News

Visible for miles into the countryside, the blazing light flickered and writhed.

Saving Buchtel High School's practice football field could cost the district an additional $11 million and add two years to a three-year project to build a new combined high school and middle school.

The Veterans Day observance at the University of Akron actually got underway at 11 a.m. Tuesday, with UA's Army Reserve Officers Training Corps 42nd Ohio Volunteer Battalion conducting a 24-hour vigil, standing guard over a symbolic eternal flame starting at 11:11 a.m. Tuesday until 11:11 a.m. Wednesday at the Buchtel Common flagpole.

The principal of Buchtel High School in Akron has died. Deborah Houchins, who had been the Buchtel High School principal since 2004, died of unknown causes.

The tears that occasionally ran down the face of Buchtel senior Christy Campbell as she talked about her recent past were tears of joy and pain.

President Luis Proenza got a special one: a digital picture frame with photos to mark his first decade on the job.