Longtime Canfield educator opts for retirement

CANFIELD — Dr. Abby Barone is graduating from school after more than 50 years.

The longtime Canfield teacher and administrator has been Canfield High School principal since 1997. She will hang up her ruler and close her lesson plan for good July 31.

“Someone once told me I have a surplus of past and a shortage of future, and when you think about it you wonder where all those years went,” Barone said. “The most important things we have are our health and our time.”

Barone said she’d been thinking about retirement for the past couple of years but made the decision to graduate for good this year. She cited current mayor and former CHS principal William Kay as her inspiration.

“He said, ‘You’re going to wake up some morning and you’re just gonna know,’” she said. “I don’t know if I ever had this great revelation. I kind of just eased into it.”

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