Roberta Looser
Dorothy Looser-Flake
The Sherrard and Mercer County School Districts sharing $100,000 in technology grant funding from the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation. $45,000 will go to Sherrard and $55,000 to Mercer County. Sherrard will use the funding to invest in robotic and coding equipment for outdated elementary school computer labs and eventually make improvements district-wide. The grant will allow the Mercer County School District to purchase all of the necessary textbook software to accompany new Chrome books.
Dorothy Looser-Flake and Roberta Looser were sisters who were born and raised on a family farm near New Boston. They started the charitable foundation to support the region. Between 2015 and 2017, the Looser-Flake Charitable Foundation awarded more than half a million dollars to advance economic development and improve education in Mercer County.