Published Thursday, Aug. 12, 1999 Kim Curry, 32, of Sharon was promoted in May to copy editor/designer. She joined The Herald as a reporter in 1996 to cover Sharpsville, Reynolds, Clark and South Pymatuning and West Salem townships as well as the education beat.
Most recently, Thomas G. Fontaine, Greenville, and Kristen L. Garrett, Pulaski, have been hired to fill the vacanies in the reporting staff created by Ms. Curry and Jennifer Hall.
Ms. Hall, who had been covering the city of Sharon as well as specialized beats, resigned in July to accept a position as press secretary for U.S. Rep. Phil English in Washington, D.C.
Fontaine, 24, a graduate of Greenville High School, earned a bachelor's degree in general studies with a minor in English from Kent (Ohio) State University in December. He had attended Kennedy Christian High School in Hermitage for two years before returning to Greenville.
While in high school, he played football, basketball and baseball and was a nine-time letter winner and six-time all-conference selection. He was a four-time letter winner in baseball at Kent and played professionally in the farm system of the Baltimore Orioles in 1997-98.
He had been a correspondent for the Record-Argus, Greenville. He will be doing general assignment reporting for The Herald.
Ms. Garrett, 22, a graduate of Wilmington High School, earned a bachelor's degree in communications with a minor in art history in May from John Carroll University, Cleveland.
Before being hired at The Herald, she served as a news intern at Allied News, Grove City, a sister paper of The Herald, and had worked during summers while in college in various departments at The Herald.
She has been assigned to the Sharon beat, replacing Ms. Hall.
Ms. Curry, a Sharon native, worked for six years at the Allied News as a reporter, section editor and photographer.
While there, Ms. Curry won two first-place Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association awards as well as Allied News' editorial excellence award.
She graduated in 1989 from Seton Hill College, Greensburg, with a bachelor's degree in English literature after serving as editor of the college's newspaper.
