Last night, the Litchfield School Board of Education approved hiring a new high school principal. Douglas Hoster of Seneca, comes to Litchfield following nine years as principal of Newark High School. According to School Superintendent Jeff Strieker, prior to being its principal, Hoster served as the high school Science teacher and Athletic Director for five years at DePue. During Hoster's previous twelve years of education, he taught science and coached athletics at Woodland, Mendota, Mt. Assisi Academy and Marquette H.S. of Ottawa. Dr. DeAnn Heck resigned as principal at Litchfield two weeks ago after accepting a position as superintendent at Central A&M.Thomack 8/13/15