Boston has been a finalist in each of the four years since the award was created in 2002, and its longtime superintendent, Thomas W. Payzant, is retiring after this school year.

Louis Torres, the longtime superintendent of the building where Ms. Stewart lived, said he was amazed that an arrest had been made after so many years.

Roy J. Wasson High School was established in 1959 and named after one of the longtime superintendents of Colorado Springs School District 11.

"The primary medium for working with the retarded child is imitation," says Robert J. Seibold, the Batavia school's longtime superintendent.

Anthony Futia, the longtime superintendent of the town's water and sewer department, ran against Ms. Berman and Mr. Lombardi on the Libertarian line this fall.

In 2004, the town's longtime superintendent, Dr. Kevin Hurley, died from cancer at age 52.

It was renamed 'Fred C. Nelles School for Boys' in 1941, to honor the longtime former superintendent of the school from 1912 to 1927.

A recent tour through the building with Alexander Brooks, its longtime superintendent, presented a vanishing species for Manhattan.

The course has always been one of the toughest on the tour, and according to Joe Alonzi, the course's longtime superintendent, it will play even tougher this year because of significant changes.

The District 6 board is seeking a replacement for Anthony Amato, the longtime superintendent who recently resigned to take the superintendent's job in Hartford.