2012-05-04 22:31:00
ENELLY BETANCOURT
Some 150 middle school students had the opportunity Friday to dialogue with law enforcement officials.
They observed a panel discussion involving local police officers, watched a presentation by McCaskey High School's Mock Trial Team, and heard a motivational talk by Jordan Steffy, former......
2012-04-19 11:04:00
STAFF
A garage sale to benefit the American Cancer Society will be held Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, at Faith Evangelical Congregational Church, 2124 Old Philadelphia Pike. The "Bargains For Breast Cancer" event, being organized by "Michelle's Journey" Relay For Life team, will be held fr......
2012-04-05 11:38:00
CHAD UMBLE
The story of a traveling salesman who finds love in a small town — where he has come to swindle the residents — is coming to the Conestoga Valley High School stage when it presents "The Music Man." "I think it is one of those shows that have something for everybody," said J......
2012-04-03 11:56:00
STAFF
The weather was chilly for the track and field meet at Conestoga Valley High School on Monday afternoon. Monday's chilly breeze gave way to warmer weather today. Highs were expected to reach the mid-60s. For coverage of the CV meet with Garden Spot, visit the sports section below or click ...
2012-03-30 22:59:00
DAN NEPHIN
Jim Ringlein has been involved one way or another with the North Museum Science & Engineering Fair for a quarter-century.
As a science teacher, both at Lancaster Catholic High School and Lancaster Country Day School, he oversaw student projects.
And for the last several years,......
2012-03-28 23:49:00
DAN NEPHIN
Jesse Martin's approach to his science project reflected the elegant simplicity of his winning entry.
"I just did what I thought was a good science project, what I cared about," the Elizabethtown Area High School senior said.
His project fitted small magnets onto the surface of tw......
2012-03-28 23:44:00
CHAD UMBLE
The results of Zach Custer's science fair project were written on the same kind of paper his experiments had been making into a fuel source.
For his project, the Conestoga Valley High School junior investigated two ways to turn paper waste, such as copy paper, into ethanol.
Zach's......
2012-03-08 22:33:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Correction March 9, 2012 — An earlier headline for this article misstated the location of the death of a teenager involved in a drinking party. The teenager died at a hospital and not at the home where the party was held.
...
2012-03-01 16:37:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
Today's high school theater is more professional than ever.
Sophisticated sets, top-notch music and impressive acting give cash-strapped theater lovers budget-friendly options.
And what options!
Local spring theater season is underway.
In the coming weeks "Little W......
2012-02-28 21:41:00
ALYSSA WILLIAMS
Breaking records is becoming a habit for Conestoga Valley grad Melissa Gates.
At the recent Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference swimming championships, the California (Pa.) senior was named MVP after earning first place in five events, including two relays.
Gates broke the NCAA......
2012-02-21 07:32:00
AD CRABLE, Outdoor Trails
Some gravitate to the sun and sunny places. For Mark Roye, it's always been ice.
Far from outgrowing his childhood fascination with early whalers, seal hunters and maritime fur traders that roamed the world's most remote and harsh climes, the 1966 graduate of Conestoga Valley High School ......
2012-02-10 21:13:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Nicole Kobie is quick to note that music and theater are among her favorite things.
The 17-year-old Conestoga Valley High School senior is an accomplished clarinetist, percussionist and vocalist.
She has brought her singing talents to the stage in school musicals such as "The Soun......
2011-11-29 17:28:00
STAFF REPORT
Michael A. Snyder, 16, son of Carla and William Snyder Jr. of Lancaster was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout on November 13 at a court of honor held at St. Stephen's United Church of Christ, New Holland.
Michael began his scouting career as a Tiger Cub in 2002 with Cub Pack 83. In 2007, he......
2011-11-11 20:43:00
JIMMY PIANKA
Construction is complete on the corner of Chestnut and North Queen streets, where a featureless concrete walkway once sprawled in empty shade.
As of today, three dizzying flag poles rise from the brick-and-granite amphitheater of Veterans Plaza, a newly dedicated structure in honor of all......
2011-11-11 15:51:00
CHAD UMBLE
The two newest graduates of Conestoga Valley High School were commemorated during a Veterans Day ceremony that also recognized them for the military service that originally interrupted their high school careers. William Dillon, a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, and William Groff, a U.S......
2011-10-28 22:07:00
LARRY ALEXANDER and JIMMY PIANKA
A pilot was injured Friday when his small plane crashed at Smoketown Airport.
John Otto of Lancaster sustained facial and head injuries but was reported to be alert and speaking, according to Lafayette Fire Company Deputy Chief Scott Hershey.
Otto was taken to Lancaster General Ho......
2011-10-19 20:47:00
TIM MEKEEL
Albert Morrison III, chief executive officer of Burnham Holdings, will retire April 23, the company announced Wednesday.
Morrison, who has spent 38 years with the company, will be succeeded by Douglas S. Brossman, vice president and general counsel.
Morrison, of Lancaster, came to......
2011-10-19 20:47:00
TIM MEKEEL
Albert Morrison III, chief executive officer of Burnham Holdings, will retire April 23, the company announced Wednesday.
Morrison, who has spent 38 years with the company, will be succeeded by Douglas S. Brossman, vice president and general counsel.
Morrison, of Lancaster, came to......
2011-10-03 21:06:00
JANE HOLAHAN
NEW YORK — Ever since Ronks native Jonathan Groff hit it big on Broadway in "Spring Awakening" in 2006, his career has taken him in many directions.
In television's "Glee," he sang and danced his heart out as the villainous Jesse St. James, the leader of a rival glee club.
A......
2011-10-01 10:31:00
JOAN KERN
There's a sweet little Scots-Irish church tucked away in the hills of southern Lancaster County that no longer has a congregation but is jam-packed with historic artifacts.
The two-room Octorara Covenanter Presbyterian Church, 1188 Valley Road, Quarryville, is the oldest Presbyterian Chur......
2011-10-01 08:27:00
JOAN KERN
What you see is what you get with Conestoga Valley High School senior Courtney Allen. "I am who I am all the time," said Allen, 17. "People can count on me." The busy student, described by her guidance counselor as a "fantastic kid all around," excels in academics, athletics and service......
2011-09-30 20:15:00
JOAN KERN
What you see is what you get with Conestoga Valley High School senior Courtney Allen. "I am who I am all the time," said Allen, 17. "People can count on me." The busy student, described by her guidance counselor as a "fantastic kid all around," excels in academics, athletics and service......
2011-09-29 22:16:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Two years ago, Manheim Township High School adjusted its schedule so students who failed algebra wouldn't have to wait an entire year to retake the course.
The subject was broken into two parts, enabling pupils to repeat each section, if needed, the following semester.
The school ......
2011-09-29 11:32:00
TOM MURSE
The first candidate has thrown his hat into the ring for retiring state Rep. Scott Boyd's House seat.
Republican Keith J. Greiner, an accountant serving his first term as Lancaster County controller, said he will seek the 43rd Legislative District seat next year.
"I'm definitely r......
2011-09-21 17:44:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
It's time to get in the game.
Young athletes, coaches and fans are in anticipation mode as county schools swing into sports season.
But beyond the cheering crowd and the ball-chasing action, there are seasoned and focused backstage veteran......
2011-09-21 17:44:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
It's time to get in the game.
Young athletes, coaches and fans are in anticipation mode as county schools swing into sports season.
But beyond the cheering crowd and the ball-chasing action, there are seasoned and focused backstage veterans who quietly set the stage.
Here'......
2011-09-20 10:22:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Susan Heydt likes to use Facebook to remind her students of upcoming assignments and check on them if they've had a difficult day in her class.
Heydt, a secondary gifted teacher in Donegal School District, said she's "glad to be a safe adult that can be available to support my students" t......
2011-09-05 22:39:00
AMANDA KENNEDY and AARON GRIFFITH
The Penn Manor Marching Unit may battle each other on the football field, but behind all of the sabres and musical war cries is a tight-knit group of students.
Musicians playing wind instruments and color guard members duke it out against the percussion section during the band's 2011 fiel......
2011-09-02 17:10:00
Staff Report
Conestoga Valley High School will host Parents Night from 7 to 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14.
Parents and guardians of students in grades nine through 12 are invited to receive an introduction to high school academic programs and meet CV teachers.
Upon arrival, parents will pic......
2011-08-29 21:11:00
ENELLY BETANCOURT, CINDY STAUFFER and BRIAN WALLACE
One school was closed by a power outage and hundreds of students at other schools were delayed by storm-related road closures as the new year began Monday for nearly 60,000 Lancaster County students one day after Hurricane Irene ravaged the county.
"It's truly the calm after the storm," M......
2011-08-09 00:58:00
CHAD UMBLE
The trailer for the Conestoga Valley High School marching band will have a new identity as part of a corporate sponsorship that has a bath renovation company paying $4,000 a year for naming rights.
At their Aug. 8 meeting, Conestoga Valley school board members approved the agr......
2011-08-05 23:05:00
TOM MURSE
Editor's note: Today we publish My Weekend, a feature giving readers a peek at what Lancaster County residents do in their downtime.
When Tim Carr was growing up, he often got home from school before his mother was done working at McCaskey's cafeteria.
So he started dinne......
2011-08-05 12:05:00
JOAN KERN
Amy Frey began taking strong painkillers for kidney stones when she was in high school.
When they stopped working, someone introduced her to heroin.
"I got hooked on it really bad. Rehab didn't work. For years I was in and out of prison, on the streets no more than three or four m......
2011-08-04 15:02:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
It's a new month. And in downtown Lancaster, that means a fresh burst of creativity is in store.
The First Friday celebration of the arts is as diverse and broad as visitors have come to expect, with galleries, studios and businesses all getting into the act.
One never knows what ......
2011-07-26 22:03:00
DUSTIN LEED
Looks like hard work does pay off.
It's not often that a wide receiver from a private Division III college lands a National Football League contract, but that's precisely what happened to Conestoga Valley graduate Tyler Beiler.
The Bridgewater College standout was skipped over in ......
2011-06-17 19:39:00
ELLEN BORZA, 18, Freestyle
For many graduating high school students, senior week is the culminating event that many consider a right of passage to end senior year. Between June and July, Ocean City, Maryland hosts approximately 100,000 visitors, and 80,000 are graduated seniors, according to an online article from the webs......
2011-06-12 00:13:00
ENELLY BETANCOURT
Participants in this weekend's Lancaster Relay For Life supported the event for different reasons. Some walked the track at Conestoga Valley High School as proud cancer survivors. Others walked as a show of support for those fighting cancer. Some did it to remember loved ones. "We had 1......
2011-06-09 22:25:00
NICOLE HERMAN
"You have cancer."
In 2010, an estimated 75,260 Pennsylvanians heard these chilling words as they received their first cancer diagnosis, according to the American Cancer Society.
With modern technology and medicine, the odds of beating cancer have increased, but the disease contin......
2011-06-08 22:30:00
NICOLE HERMAN
To hear the sound of a lone violin reverberating against the walls of a concert hall elicits a feeling no other instrument can bring.
For Ephrata-born Dara Burkholder Morales, the music of violins is the soundtrack of her life. A professional violinist, Morales has traveled around the wor......
2011-06-08 16:39:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Quadriplegia has not conquered the spirit of Conestoga Valley graduate Sara Fisher.
In fact, the former Amish girl dismisses her condition as a mere inconvenience.
Her physical challenges are mainly in writing, she said.
"I write with my mouth," Fisher said. But because ev......
2011-06-08 15:55:00
Staff
Conestoga Valley High School honored numerous graduating students at its senior awards program on May 26. Awards were as follows: PRINCIPAL'S LEADERSHIP AWARD: $400, Jessica Martin and Alexander Dien- ner. PTO SCHOLARSHIPS AND ELEMENTARY AWARDS: Brownstown PTO, $200, Rachel Ri......
2011-06-07 22:55:00
LORI VAN INGEN
With a dignified air, the Conestoga Valley High School Class of 2011 walked through a long receiving line of applause on its way to the start of commencement exercises at Calvary Church Tuesday night.
But the dignified ceremony lasted only until the 293 seniors in blue and red gowns began......
2011-05-31 23:11:00
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Conestoga Valley High School will hold commencement for the Class of 2011 at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 7, at Calvary Church. Baccalaureate will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 5, at Leola Untied Methodist Church. Rebecca Longenecker, class president, will address her fellow graduates. Other s......
2011-05-20 21:33:00
BRETTE KEELEY
"How do you like my ride?" U.S. Army Pfc. Brandon Styer would always ask his friends and family, according to his father, Terry Styer.
The one thing Brandon loved most was his car — a blue 2004 Mazda RX-8.
The 2008 Conestoga Valley graduate, who was killed while serving in A......
2011-05-20 23:21:00
KEVIN FREEMAN
Mike Vogel was worried.
When the Hempfield boys' volleyball coach checked the stats after the second game of the Lancaster-Lebanon League title match, he noted that his big gun, Sean Snyder, had taken 14 swings and scored on 12 of them.
That's beyond a Ruthian number for an attack......
2011-05-20 22:25:00
JOAN KERN
Emily Smucker loves the outdoors.
"I really like nature," the Conestoga Valley High School senior said. "I go camping with my family two or three times a summer.
"I like hiking and canoeing. This summer I'm going white-water rafting for the first time. I'm really excited about tha......
2011-05-18 21:49:00
BRIAN WALLACE
It's almost high school graduation season, that time of year when giddy seniors, silhouetted by a setting sun, march across grassy football fields to get their diplomas.
That description is idyllic — and outdated.
For most Lancaster County graduates, high school commencement......
2011-05-16 22:41:00
Staff
Clay Parker, a member of Boy Scout Troop 83 of Eden, has been awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. Parker, a junior at Conestoga Valley High School, is the son of Robin and Donald Parker Jr. of Lancaster. He is a member of the high school swim team and is employed by YMCA-LS as a lifeguard ......
2011-05-03 21:34:00
RYAN ROBINSON and JENNIFER TODD
A first-year Conestoga Valley High School volleyball coach was killed in a one-vehicle crash Monday night in West Lampeter Township.
Randall T. Paules, 29, of 137 N. Plum St., was driving north in the 800 block of Strasburg Pike when he lost control of his car on a bridge at Pequea Creek ......
2011-04-27 12:16:00
LYNN COMMERO
Two members of the East Lampeter Township Park and Recreation Commission were recognized for their many years of service at the April 19 supervisors meeting. Pieter Hegeman II and James Gustafson received plaques from Supervisor Dave Buckwalter. The plaques state: "In recognition of and grat......
2011-04-08 20:03:00
TAYLOR BUNDY, 20, Freestyle
Nick High is unique. The eighth-grader at Conestoga Valley Middle School is academically gifted and has won multiple awards, including first place in his school science fair and first and second place in regional Technology Student Association (TSA) competitions.
Nick, the 14-year-ol......
2011-03-17 23:32:00
BRIAN WALLACE
About 100 students attending McCaskey and McCaskey East high schools are on track to graduate, but not in the traditional four-year time frame.
Ephrata High has 23 pupils in the same situation and Hempfield High has 28 — students who, for a variety of reasons, lacked the academic cr......
2011-03-15 22:49:00
KIM O'BRIEN
Melissa Gates had a hunch that it was going to be her year.
"Back in September in the original goal meetings, I swear the first thing she said was 'I want to win the 50 free at NCAA's,' " said Ed Denny, Gates' coach at California University of Pennsylvania.
Six months later, the j......
2011-03-10 22:44:00
STAFF REPORT
Junior Melissa Gates, a Conestoga Valley graduate, became the first NCAA individual champion in California University of Pennsylvania swimming history on Wednesday evening when she won the 50-yard freestyle on the first day of competition at the NCAA Division II Swimming Championships at the Palo......
2011-02-16 21:41:00
TOM MURSE
Former Conestoga Valley volleyball star and Olympic medalist Kim Glass has appeared in sports magazines before. But this one focuses less on her well-honed athletic ability than on her — ahem — natural gifts.
Think fishnets instead of volleyball nets.
The 26-y......
2011-01-25 22:57:00
GREG CALDWELL
Correction Jan. 26, 2011 — Conestoga Valley graduate Teresa Rynier was preceded in the Women's Professional Soccer League by Hempfield graduate Shannon Myers, a former Syracuse standout who has played in goal for Sky Blue FC...
2011-01-10 18:34:00
JEFF HAWKES
One time when Cara Longacre Hurst was little, her mother prepared for a dinner party by pitching a Bedouin tent in the living room.
Beneath a canopy of sheets and blankets, guests dined on Mediterranean dishes that would have delighted the most discriminating nomad.
Another time, ......
2010-12-31 18:02:00
JOAN KERN
Pete Kleine wishes more politicians were historians.
"Everyone says you need a law degree (to be a politician)," the Conestoga Valley High School junior said.
"But I think we need to look at our mistakes. I don't think we do that quite enough."
Kleine, 17, son of Peter and......
2010-12-27 21:40:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
They came one after the other, some wearing crisp military uniforms, some in civilian clothing.
They respectfully wrote messages on a pair of memory boards, one with a giant U.S. Marine Corps seal on it, the other, across the room, bearing a picture of a young man and his guitar.
......
2010-12-20 23:21:00
CINDY STAUFFER and P.J. REILLY
A local Marine has died in Afghanistan.
Cpl. Eric Torbert Jr., 25, a 2003 graduate of Penn Manor High School, is the fallen Marine. Circumstances of his death were not immediately available.
The Associated Press reported Torbert died Saturday during combat operations in Helmand pr......
2010-12-14 19:26:00
CHAD UMBLE
Conestoga Valley school officials will explore whether — and where — more security cameras should be installed at the high school.
The school board asked the administration to look into the matter on the recommendation of the district's school resource officer, who made a pres......
2010-12-03 18:58:00
ELLEN BORZA, 17, Freestyle
The movie "Mean Girls" pokes fun at bullying among girls, but in reality the topic is not so humorous, especially to the mentors of the It's a Girl Thing club at Leola Elementary School.
The club is for fourth- through sixth- grade girls at the school. The Conestoga Valley School&nbs......
2010-11-22 20:49:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The waves had been bad all day at Salt Creek Beach near Irvine, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 14.
Lancaster County native Drew Wissler, surfing with two fellow Concordia University students, kept thinking he should give up. It was getting dark, and he had school work to do.
"There was s......
2010-11-18 21:38:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A year after announcing they were partnering with another organization to build a youth center in southeast Lancaster city, the Mix at Arbor Place officials are now pushing forward alone.
Arbor Place plans to demolish its existing facility at 520 North St. and build a larger, more functio......
2010-11-16 20:58:00
JANET KELLEY
Several teenagers saw the high school junior lying on the living room floor during a party at a Mountville home last June.
Joseph B. Blankenmyer, 18, Lancaster, had been drinking vodka, the teens told police, but they let him lie there unconscious, with purple lips and pale skin.
......
2010-11-01 20:48:00
BRIAN WALLACE
If not for a chance meeting on an airplane, McCaskey High School students probably wouldn't be learning to play music in one of the most technically advanced classrooms in Lancaster County.
The school recently added 50 electronic keyboards and guitars to its music program, along with a so......
2010-10-29 19:51:00
ELLEN BORZA, 17, Freestyle
For people who are a little timid when it comes to fashion, white pants in the fall may seem slightly out of the ordinary, but Rachel Smucker encourages self-expression in fashion, no matter the season.
"Fashion teaches me to be crafty and creative," the 18-year-old Conestoga Valley High ......
2010-10-22 17:17:00
ALEX WENGER, 18, Freestyle
Working full time at 16, family conflicts, teen pregnancies — sounds like the plot for a reality TV show. However, these are just some of the facts of life of the 1800s, as two local teens learned through their volunteer work at Landis Valley Museum.
Landis Valley Museum, located al......
2010-10-18 22:39:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
A singer was performing an emotional song at this summer's Creation music festival, as equally emotional video images of Haiti's earthquake played on the big screen behind him.
And somewhere out in the crowd was 10-year-old Alexys Palmer of East Lampeter Township.
Thinking, "that ......
2010-09-28 22:11:00
CINDY STAUFFER
An East Lampeter Township man died and his father is in critical condition after an all-terrain vehicle accident over the weekend in Juniata County.
Michael Hurst, 29, was killed in the accident.
His father, Donald Hurst, 51, of Leola, is hospitalized at Penn State Hershey Medical......
2010-09-06 20:08:00
JEFF HAWKES
Jessica Madrigal knew exactly what she wanted to do when she enrolled at Dickinson College three years ago.
She has taken education and foreign language classes and studied abroad with the goal of becoming a Spanish teacher.
But Madrigal's college experience has gone beyond career......
2010-08-06 21:38:00
CIVIA KATZ
For Jessica Campbell, who'll be a senior at Conestoga Valley High School this fall, playing soccer has become a family tradition.Both her brothers played in college, and her dad still plays. And she has followed in their footsteps."My dad always said I've been playing s......
2010-06-20 00:13:00
MANDY STOLTZFUS
Bob Rankin, of Manor Township, was told he had two weeks to live. That was 26 years ago. Today he is 62, cancer-free and has one of the top money-raising relay teams at Lancaster's Relay for Life every year. Saturday, Rankin's team of 13 walked the red track at Conestoga Valley ......
2010-06-18 23:26:00
DIANA MARTIN
A group of 400 cancer survivors circled the track Friday at Conestoga Valley High School.Some were elderly, pushed in wheelchairs.Some were small children, pushed in strollers, who will see many more birthdays thanks to their life-saving treatments.One empty wheelchair rattle......
2010-06-08 22:48:00
RORY HESLIN
Emotions ran wild as Conestoga Valley's senior class prepared to enter Calvary Church on Tuesday night for graduation."I'm a mix between crying and shouting for joy right now," Kim Lewis said as she filed into the marching line."The whole way here I was honkin......
2010-06-08 15:41:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Police are investigating the death of an 18-year-old Conestoga Valley High School student, who died unexpectedly after allegedly being at a party over the weekend in West Hempfield Township.Joseph Blankenmyer, 18, died Monday morning at Lancaster General Hospital.An autopsy was perf......
2010-05-26 22:16:00
JENNA EBERSOLE
Today, it's Pennsylvania. And if a Cocalico High School club has anything to say about it, tomorrow, it'll be the rest of the nation.Students brought their message of depression- and suicide-awareness in schools to the Capitol Rotunda Wednesday before State Rep. Tom Creighton and s......
2010-05-20 21:44:00
CINDY STAUFFER
For some local bicycle racing fans, it was no shock to hear Floyd Landis' revelation Thursday that he used performance-enhancing drugs for most of his professional road cycling career, including during the 2006 Tour de France.That's what professional cyclists — at least those......
2010-05-11 20:58:00
P.J. REILLY
Michael Vick's visit to Lancaster County last week raked in more than $25,000 for the Children Deserve a Chance Foundation.Jordan Steffy, the charity's founder, said Vick's speech May 5 at the Lancaster County Convention Center drew more than 2,500 people — mostly school-......
2010-05-09 22:18:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Twenty-five trout wildly flop around inside a five-gallon bucket carried by two girls who carefully make their way toward the Little Conestoga Creek — one eye on the bucket's lid, the other watching for itchy burn hazel plants.One student is from Conestoga Valley High School, the......
2010-05-05 23:12:00
P.J. REILLY
"It's easy to do the wrong things in life. It's hard to do the right things."Those two sentences were at the heart of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick's message to an enthusiastic crowd of more than 2,000 Wednesday night at the Lancaster County Convention ......
2010-05-04 21:49:00
ENELLY BETANCOURT
Hundreds of walkers will hit the track — at different times and locations but with one common goal — during the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life here.The events are designed to raise awareness about cancer as well as funds to support research, education, advocacy an......
2010-04-26 22:48:00
P.J. REILLY
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick's program at Lancaster County Convention Center has been pushed back a week.To allow tickets to be sold in more locations for the event, the program will be held Wednesday, May 5, instead of this Thursday."We had a lot of interes......
2010-04-22 21:12:00
TOM KNAPP
It wasn't a pleasant odor.But it was the sweet smell of renewable energy."It used to be this was out of sight, out of mind," Brad Brubaker, sales and marketing manager for Kline's Services, said Thursday.Behind him, a few thousand gallons of aromatic kitchen......
2010-04-14 21:51:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Manheim Township school board on Thursday night will begin considering a proposal to implement random student drug testing at the high school next year.A group of Manheim Township residents, school officials and students is recommending the district implement a testing program and other pr......
2010-04-02 19:39:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Lancaster County Career & Technology Center has agreed to pay $5,000 to a former student who sued the center last year, alleging school employees subjected him to an illegal strip search in 2007.In the settlement, the center does not admit to any wrongdoing, and the student, Jonathan A......
2010-03-31 23:02:00
BRIAN WALLACE
For Kyle Slaymaker, attending Lancaster County Academy was a "life-changing" experience.Slaymaker, 23, enrolled in the alternative school at Park City Center in 2004 after falling in with the wrong crowd at Conestoga Valley High School."I did a lot of partying and a l......
2010-03-27 08:55:00
CIVIA KATZ
Yordanos Bekele has made the journey of a lifetime.She was born in Ethiopia and spent the first 11 years of her life there. Since moving to Lancaster six years ago, she has developed into a top student at Conestoga Valley High School, where she is a senior.Her mother had moved to th......
2010-03-25 00:01:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Land mines kill an innocent person every 22 seconds.And the methods used to detect and defuse the buried explosives before they kill or maim can have tragic results.Every 1,000 attempts results in two deaths.Marian Bechtel thinks there's a safer way to locate buried mines......
2010-03-20 00:01:00
MEGAN HARRIS, 18, Freestyle
Excitement was visible, laughter was audible and happiness was tangible Wednesday evening as local high school life skills and school-to-work students teamed up with the Penn Manor High School Interact club to enjoy a night of dancing, games, food and fun at the first of what will hopefully becom......
2010-03-07 22:37:00
STAFF
Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at the Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St....
2010-03-04 17:48:00
RAY GRUNNERT
This should be Lancaster saxophonist Dave Wilson's year. Wilson has just signed with Phoenix, Ariz.,-based Summit Records and will release his third CD as a bandleader, "Spiral," sometime in late spring. The saxophonist's music-heavy resumé includes performing, music instruc......
2010-02-27 00:02:00
JANE HOLAHAN
When Alex Tyson saw the clip of tap water catching fire, he knew he had to be a part of "GasLand," a documentary about the dangers of a certain kind of natural gas drilling that won the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in January."My friend an......
2010-02-25 17:38:00
Roxanne Todd
There's plenty to do in Lancaster County for the next few months when young thespians from across the county take to the stage. Here's a guide to some of the productions under way: FEBRUARY Central Lancaster County Homeschool Music is kicking off the spring musical season with a pr......
2010-02-24 21:14:00
STAFF
A school bus and a pickup truck collided near Conestoga Valley High School on Wednesday morning, police said.None of the six students on the bus was injured in the 7:37 a.m. wreck at Horseshoe and Willow roads, East Lampeter Township police said.The driver of the pickup, a 17-year-o......
2010-02-21 00:14:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Cumberland who? After prevailing at Conestoga Valley's annual quiz bowl tournament for the last two years, Cumberland Valley High School was nowhere to be found in the finals Saturday afternoon. Manheim Township, the team Cumberland Valley beat the last two years, won back the ti......
2010-02-15 22:11:00
P.J. REILLY
When local bicycle-race promoter Rich Ruoff heard the news Monday that a French judge had issued an arrest warrant for disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis, he couldn't believe his ears."Enough is enough already," Ruoff said. "It's been four years. They should quit picking......
2010-01-18 23:44:00
Sports Staff
The Lancaster-Lebanon League wrestling championships will be held Friday and Saturday at Conestoga Valley High School's Rill Gymnasium.There will be five rounds of wrestling in Session One on Friday, beginning at 4 p.m. and continuing through to 10 p.m. Competition will include prelimi......
2010-01-06 22:23:00
BRIAN WALLACE
A former Lancaster County Career & Technology Center student has sued the center and four of its employees, alleging he was subjected to an "unnecessary and unreasonable" strip search that violated his rights.Jonathan M. Aponte alleges the search, conducted in 2007 while he a......
2009-11-25 18:30:00
TOM KNAPP
Kathleen Megnin Millay was almost in tears during a rehearsal for "The Nutcracker" — even though there wasn't a single dancer on stage. Millay is artistic director for the Laurel Dance Company, which annually presents the holiday ballet in Lancaster. This year, however, t......
2009-11-24 00:01:00
CINDY STAUFFER`
If you still want the swine flu vaccine, you can get it this week if you are in a targeted risk group.And Conestoga Valley School District plans to provide shots for up to 1,500 of its students Dec. 16.The state will offer free vaccines at clinics to be held from 9 a.m. to noon and ......
2009-11-17 10:04:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A longtime organization in Lancaster city and a fledgling foundation are teaming up with the hope they can accomplish more together than they could apart.Arbor Place, which has operated a youth center at 520 North St. for more than 25 years, is partnering with the Children Deserve a Chance......
2009-11-13 17:10:00
JANE HOLAHAN
From a silly farce involving old ladies who kill lonely old men and bury to them in their basement, to the tension involved in sorting out a murder case in a room full of jurors, to William Shakespeare's wry look at love, the high school play season is in high gear this weekend and next....
2009-10-31 10:06:00
DIANE BITTING
Leanne M. Lefever is the student behind the sound for "The Morning Show" on WCVH, the closed-circuit television broadcast at Conestoga Valley High School.Every weekday, around 7:20 a.m., the senior positions herself at a console in the school's TV studio.She controls t......
2009-10-22 00:07:00
JENNIFER TODD
They went from thinking pink to seeing green.Lots of it.Two weeks ago, members of the Conestoga Valley High School girls' volleyball team, who had been working to raise money for cancer, discovered that the $170 they collected so far was missing."They were very disap......
2009-10-21 20:12:00
TOM MURSE
Services will be held in Lancaster Friday and Saturday for Brandon Styer, the 19-year-old Conestoga Valley High School graduate killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan last week.Visitation will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at Fred F. Groff Inc., 234 W. Orange St., his family s......
2009-10-20 10:08:00
BRIAN WALLACE
English teacher Tammy Ficca rewards stellar writing by inviting her students to read their essays from an "author's stool" in front of her Manheim Township High School classroom.Physics teacher Bill McWatters doles out tiny plastic dinosaurs to pupils who excel at the weekly ......
2009-10-17 00:04:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The phone rang Wednesday night in the Styer house, as it did almost every night.Brandon Styer was making one of his regular calls home from half a world away.The 19-year-old U.S. Army combat engineer was checking in from Afghanistan, where it already was Thursday morning.&quo......
2009-10-16 08:53:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Brandon Styer, a 2008 Conestoga Valley High School graduate, died in Afghanistan Thursday. Styer, 19, left for Afghanistan at the end of last month. The Associated Press reported that a roadside bomb attack killed four U.S. soldiers on Thursday in the escalating eight-year war there....
2009-10-13 08:12:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Erin Rodenberger never felt unsafe at Manheim Township High School, but since Roger Blantz started roaming the halls, she's felt more secure.Blantz is the uniformed Manheim Township police officer who began working his new beat as school resource officer Sept. 21.In the short pe......
2009-09-30 06:34:00
CHAD UMBLE
Artificial turf would cost the Conestoga Valley School District some serious green, but a booster club says it is willing to help trim the final tab.CV school board members are now mulling whether the district should pony up $5 million to install three new artificial turf fields at the hig......
2009-09-18 10:16:00
BRIAN WALLACE
When Debby Mitchell took over as principal of Manheim Township High School this past summer, she noticed a familiar pattern.Last school year, the same five Manheim Township students spent eight or more days serving in-school suspensions for violating school rules.Instead of going to......
2009-09-15 08:22:00
BRIAN WALLACE
What goes up must come down.Just ask Lancaster County's high school principals.Last year, their schools' SAT scores surged by an average of 21 points, bucking state and national trends.This year, the scores dropped by 14 points, on average, while state and national sc......
2009-09-13 00:01:00
STAFF
Five individuals will be inducted into Conestoga Valley High School's Hall of Fame Friday, Sept. 18. Inducted will be Nate Bagley, Bob Drinane, Angie (Wyble) Gehman, Mike Horn and Doug Shaab Jr. They will be introduced at halftime of Friday's football game against Cedar Crest. • ......
2009-08-29 06:48:00
TOM MURSE
The setting was a tad more intimate: a small, warmly lit auditorium.The emotion, however, was just as raw.Some 175 people from this Chester County community jammed into an elementary school here Friday night, and many directed sharp words at their congressman, Republican Rep. Joe Pi......
2009-08-28 06:03:00
TOM MURSE
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts was cheered by opponents of President Barack Obama's sweeping health-care proposals at a spirited — and occasionally testy — town-hall meeting here Thursday night.But the Republican lawmaker also faced tough questions from many of the 400 people in the c......
2009-08-26 00:04:00
TOM MURSE
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts, who was criticized for holding a teleconference on health care reform instead of meeting with a skeptical public, has scheduled a town-hall meeting here Thursday night.The forum will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Conestoga Valley High School, 2110 Horseshoe Ro......
2009-06-13 00:21:00
DIANA MARTIN
When Laurie Salimbeni attended her first Relay for Life four years ago, it held a special meaning for her.She had been diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer only a week earlier.At the time she was nervous, unsure about how her own encounter with cancer would turn out.But thi......
2009-06-09 05:00:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Cheryl Yerkes and her family have a sense of humor about breast cancer. They've named their team for the Relay for Life — an annual 24-hour walk/run American Cancer Society benefit to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research — "Team Boobie." And befo......
2009-06-05 11:00:00
DAN RORABAUGH
Conestoga Valley Superintendent Gerald Huesken harkened back to "The Wizard of Oz" to impart advice to the high school's graduating class. "You notice how, in all the time Dorothy's gone, Auntie Em and Uncle Henry are never worried?" Huesken asked the 314-student cla......
2009-06-05 01:06:00
MADELYN PENNINO
The sweet memories of high school won't fade for Conestoga Valley High School graduates.More than 300 seniors graduated during the school's 51st commencement Thursday at Calvary Church on Landis Valley Road. While students said they are ready to move on, they will not forget the fr......
2009-06-04 10:28:00
DAN RORABAUGH
The week Allyson Esh spent in Costa Rica was "very life-changing." Esh went with Liv180, her youth group at the Worship Center, to San Jose in the summer of 2007 to spend a week running a daycare. Back then, she was entering her junior year. But even now, as Esh is set to graduate from Con......
2009-05-30 00:42:00
MADELYN PENNINO
As children, Samuel Deng and Del Akech Del traveled thousands of miles from their home across rivers and deserts and picked fruit off trees to survive.Deng and Akech Del spoke to Conestoga Valley high school and middle school world cultures students Friday about their experiences being par......
2009-05-18 11:33:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Ronks native Jonathan Groff knows he'll never again have the amazing experience he had with "Spring Awakening," the off-Broadway musical that took Broadway by storm and earned him a Tony nomination in 2007. But his movie debut is nothing to sneeze at. The 2003 Conestoga Valley Hig......
2009-05-13 00:19:00
MADELYN PENNINO
In the eyes of civil-rights activist and author K. Coralee Burch, football legend Ernie Davis was faster, stronger and just plain better than anyone else she knew.And 46 years after Davis' untimely death, Burch, who was a high school and college classmate of his at Syracuse University,......
2009-05-04 09:24:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Rent a limousine to ride to the prom? For many teens this year, that's one expense they're going to skip. "It's not worth the money," Penn Manor High School senior Nicole Henderson says. Her classmate Christi Taylor says, "I'll drive my Honda, I'm co......
2009-04-27 10:00:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Dig out the cameras and the box of tissues. Your babies are grown and are graduating from high school. High school graduation season begins in Lancaster County in a little over a month. Here's a list of graduations for public and private high schools in the county.
W......
2009-04-27 00:02:00
MADELYN PENNINO
For Conestoga Valley High School 10th-grader Taylor Burkey, taking a beginning guitar class was natural because he's loved music his entire life.Taylor said he feels lucky to be able to express himself through music at CV, which recently was named one of the "best communities"......
2009-03-24 00:54:00
JENNIFER TODD
Brandon Stone encountered a little bit of an obstacle while setting up his science fair project Monday afternoon.Hindered by a cast on his right arm, he enlisted the aid of his mom, Sandy, who helped out by carrying her son's large cardboard display into Mayser Gymnasium at Franklin &a......
2009-03-21 01:06:00
MADELYN PENNINO
School boards across Lancaster County are crafting their 2009-10 budgets and facing some tough financial decisions in light of the frail economy. At Conestoga Valley, the school board is reviewing several scenarios to reduce costs and keep tax increases nominal. The school board reviewed a......
2009-03-11 00:13:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Conestoga Valley School Board seems poised to approve a proposal to extend the district's elementary school day by a half-hour — though logistics regarding such issues as transportation, athletics and clubs have not yet been worked out.Monday night, board members spent nearly two......
2009-03-09 00:07:00
BRIAN WALLACE
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to test air quality at schools nationwide to determine if students are at risk from airborne pollutants.But whether that testing will include schools in Lancaster County is not known.EPA administrator Lisa Jackso......
2009-03-06 18:19:00
MEGAN HARRIS, 17, Freestyle
Despite its notorious reputation among adults, the department of motor vehicles is one of the most anticipated destinations to which a teenager may travel. On any given day, teenagers make their long-awaited entrance through the doors at a state Department of Transportation Driver License Center ......
2009-02-09 00:48:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Adventurers follow a wanderlust that's more seductive than most people understand.The family of the late Joshua C. Powers, the 27-year-old Conestoga Valley High School graduate who died in Iraq last month, says it's coming to terms with how Powers' fate grew out of that kind of......
2009-01-28 11:22:00
CHAD UMBLE
Joshua Powers didn't even wait to officially graduate from Conestoga Valley High School before going off to see the world. While he eventually got a high school equivalency degree, the 27-year-old son of Church and Cathy Powers remained largely self-taught, learning about the world through ......
2009-01-27 01:18:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
On Sunday afternoon, Jonathan Groff might just as easily have been sitting at the Fulton Opera House.That he wasn't, though, is something he largely attributes to the late Fulton artistic director Michael Mitchell."If it wasn't for Michael Mitchell, I wouldn't be he......
2009-01-09 20:26:00
TAYLOR BUNDY, 18, Freestyle
Editor's note: Many teens have written for Freestyle over the past 11 years. We take a look at what some of them are doing now that they have moved on from writing for the teen section.It's been five years since Kristy Buller suited up in "haunt couture" on a fir......
2008-12-24 00:33:00
MICHAEL YODER
Jordan Steffy might not have a long white beard, a round belly and bellow "Ho, ho ho," but Tuesday night he was able to play the role of Santa Claus with hundreds of presents in hand.Steffy, the former Conestoga Valley High School star athlete and current quarterback at Universit......
2008-12-10 00:55:00
BRIAN WALLACE
A cluster of schools near some of the most pristine farmland in Lancaster County may be harboring hidden health hazards, according to USA Today.In a special report running this week, the newspaper identified Locust Grove Mennonite School as one of 435 schools in America that might be expos......
2008-12-04 01:35:00
MADELYN PENNINO
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Millersville University was correct to deny a former student a teaching degree in May 2006.Stacy L. Snyder, a former student teacher at Conestoga Valley High School, filed suit against Millersville University and five of its employees after the school d......
2008-11-19 00:03:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Lancaster's popular Relay for Life cancer walk has a new date and a new home, but organizers hope it will maintain its remarkable success.The 2008 walk raised the most money of any Relay for Life event in Pennsylvania — there are more than 200 — and was No. 3 in the nation ......
2008-11-07 18:07:00
AMANDA KENNEDY, 17, Freestyle
On Nov. 11, self-proclaimed Nerdfighters John and Hank Green will come to Conestoga Valley High School from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. as part of their cross-country "Nerdfighters" tour. A Printz Award-winning author and a singer respectively, John and Hank also connect with each other via t......
2008-11-06 07:07:00
CATHY MOLITORIS
For John and Hank Green, "nerd" is the word. John, 31, and Hank, 28, can't get enough of nerdiness. The brothers celebrate all things nerdy on their videoblog at nerdfighters.ning.com, a viewer-driven website that began as a way to keep in touch but has grown into a site devo......
2008-11-01 00:59:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Nearly two-thirds of all Lancaster County public schools have achieved academic excellence this year, based on their students' PSSA scores.Schools in every county district have qualified for Keystone Achievement Awards, which honor schools that make "adequate yearly progress"......
2008-10-30 07:04:00
New Era Staff
Indulge your inner thespian, and check out these performances at schools throughout the county. From drama to comedy to musicals, there's something for everyone.
OCTOBER
• Elizabethtown Area High School, 600 E. High St., presents "High School Musical&qu......
2008-09-13 00:44:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Conestoga Valley School District wants this homecoming to be bigger and better than ever with as many alumni attending as possible.To boost alumni participation in homecoming festivities and all-around school activities, the district is organizing an alumni association.The first eve......
2008-09-11 00:38:00
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Floyd Landis is preparing his own comeback.The Lancaster County native who won the 2006 Tour de France but then had his title stripped for a positive doping test is looking to return to a team run by Momentum Sports Group."We are in negotiations with Floyd Landis to ride for th......
2008-09-02 00:14:00
LAURA FREEMAN, JOHN WALK and STEPHANIE WEAVER
A tenor saxophone can cost more than $1,000.A tuba can cost 10 times that much.Add to that more than 10 other instruments, multiply by the number of students who play them, then throw in the amount of money it costs to fill a bus's gas tank every weekend and it's easy to see......
2008-08-29 20:56:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Correction — The story below, posted on LancasterOnline Friday, about SAT scores contained the wrong number for Warwick High School's total average score. The total average score for the Class of 2008 was 1575.......
2008-08-28 00:48:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Eighth-grader Mary Peck isn't used to lockers, lunch lines or hall passes, but she's quickly making the necessary adjustments.Wednesday — the first day of school for Conestoga Valley students — was the first time Mary ever attended a public school.Mary, ......
2008-08-27 11:10:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
The promise of a memorable senior year rests on the shoulders of four, the officers for the Class of 2009 at Conestoga Valley High School. A few minutes before they were to address the entire senior class this morning in the auditorium — the first day for the Conestoga Valley School Distr......
2008-08-22 00:20:00
P.J. REILLY
Coach Craig Esbenshade vividly remembers Kim Glass' freshman season of volleyball 11 years ago at Conestoga Valley High School."I don't think she had ever touched a volleyball before, let alone played the game," Esbenshade said. "But you could tell she had tremendous......
2008-08-20 01:13:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Garden Spot High School principal Carol Kelsall says students are more inclined to stay in school if they believe their education is relevant to their lives — both today and in the future.They also need to feel they are succeeding in the classroom, said Kelsall, whose school has been......
2008-08-19 00:01:00
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Conestoga Valley graduate Jordan Steffy was picked to start at quarterback for Maryland in the season opener against Delaware by coach Ralph Friedgen on Monday.Steffy lost his starting job last year when he left the fifth game of the season, against Rutgers, with a concussion.In fiv......
2008-08-08 01:13:00
ERIN CARLSON
(AP)Jonathan Groff races up and down the aisles through the audience, dripping with sweat, singing his heart out and shaking his long wig with manic glee.It's the revival of "Hair" at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, and it is Groff's big moment as Claude Hooper Buko......
2008-08-02 00:27:00
GREG CALDWELL
Shawn Stafford has turned a weekend and evening hobby for exercise into a very successful amateur career.Stafford, 28, a graduate of Conestoga Valley High School and a Lancaster resident, recently finished fourth in the expert class of the USA Cycling Mountain Biking National Championships......
2008-07-16 23:09:00
STAFF REPORTS
Kim Glass has been named an All-American three times and was an All-Pac-10 selection in all four of her collegiate volleyball seasons at the University of Arizona.The Conestoga Valley graduate competed in tournaments all over the world.Yet, her résumé got a substantial......
2008-07-01 10:30:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
The teachers wear T-shirts, shorts and tennis shoes. The kids sip Turkey Hill lemonade. This summer school "is not anything to complain about," Conestoga Valley High School student Kayla Wanamaker says. In fact, she hopes other students will get to enjoy it next year. It's Tu......
2008-06-13 01:39:00
KIM O’BRIEN
A navy blue book is the focus of anger and complaints at Lampeter-Strasburg High School.Recent graduates and current students are upset about mistakes in their 2007-08 yearbook. There are numerous typographical errors, photos of students from other schools and missing sports team stats....
2008-06-06 01:47:00
JOHN WALK
For a trio of young men at Conestoga Valley's graduation Thursday, the ceremony was more than just a commencement.Seniors Kyle Victor and Joel Glass were traveling with fellow senior Gary Gerlach Wednesday morning after CV graduation practice. En route to the senior picnic, Gerlach'......
2008-06-05 14:44:00
DAN RORABAUGH
When Kris Wiltsey entered the Science Olympiad, he immersed himself in an event dedicated entirely to biology, chemistry and technology. Just the place for a student who spent most of his high school career in the tech-ed room. A self-proclaimed "science nerd," Wiltsey graduates this eveni......
2008-05-22 01:17:00
JOHN WALK
Laughter. That's how members of Solanco High School's senior leadership group responded last year to the idea of holding its June 3 commencement at Clipper Magazine Stadium this year.Little did the then-junior students know high school principal Gerard Rosolie's on-a-whim inqui......
2008-05-15 11:04:00
AD CRABLE
By its very nature, the Lancaster County Academy is about change. At the public alternative school for high school dropouts located at Park City, students come and go. But for at least a decade, there has been a constant for the school, a place where each student is required to do voluntee......
2008-05-15 07:04:00
CATHY MOLITORIS
Making music
Celebrate spring with the Lancaster Mennonite High School music department's spring concert. Scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, the concert will feature the Campus Chorale, Junior Chorale, concert band, orchestra, string ensemble, flute ensemble and jazz band. ......
2008-05-15 07:02:00
JOAN KERN
Conestoga Valley High School senior Jesina Santiago has a global perspective. World cultures is her favorite subject. "It would be gym, if it could be," she says. "But I like learning about what's going on in the world." The Spanish honors student, who is fl......
2008-04-23 01:10:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Instead of retrieving lost recess balls in the stream behind Fritz Elementary School on Tuesday, students picked up plastic bags, cardboard boxes and cans.Fritz students in fourth and sixth grades cleaned up a section of the East Lampeter Township stream as the first step in creating an ou......
2008-04-19 00:36:00
PATRICK BURNS
An ethanol plant like the controversial corn distillery proposed in Conoy Township won't produce the biofuel that eliminates our dependency on fossil fuels, but it is a start.That's was the message from Kathleen A. McGinty, state secretary of Environmental Protection, in Lancaster ......
2008-04-05 00:13:00
MADELYN PENNINO
A Conestoga Valley alumnus returned to his alma mater Friday to teach the next generation the importance of volunteering."The best and most noble thing you can do is give your talents away," Don Eberly told about 50 high school students at a talk organized by the social studies department.......
2008-02-26 00:39:00
MADELYN PENNINO
FBI Special Agent Scott Sutherland knows how online predators try to lure teenagers into inappropriate situations.On Monday, Sutherland told ninth-grade students at Conestoga Valley High School how to avoid being trapped by individuals who use the Internet to prey on young people.Du......
2008-02-12 02:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO
"Spring Awakening" added to its extensive list of honors Sunday night when it took home a Grammy award for best musical show album.The cast recording featured the musical's star and Ronks native Jonathan Groff. The 22-year-old played Melchior, the leader of a rebellious group......
2008-02-09 00:50:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Students studying Chinese at Hempfield and two other area high schools marked the beginning of a new year Thursday.Underneath hanging scarlet lanterns and brightly colored parasols, 61 students of the language performed short skits, songs and dances as part of a Chinese New Year celebratio......
2008-02-05 01:29:00
JASON FULGINITI
In case their allowing an L-L League-best 32 points-per-game so far this season didn't do it for you …In case holding defending L-L and reigning Section One champion Cedar Crest to a mere 23 points on Jan. 28 just wasn't enough …Hempfield's girls' baske......
2008-02-05 01:02:00
WILL WELLIVER
Lancaster Catholic girls' basketball coach Lamar Kauffman knows how to win.Utilizing the press game that has been a Kauffman staple, the Crusaders turned back a scrappy Garden Spot team, 62-56, in a Lancaster-Lebanon League quarterfinal at Conestoga Valley Monday night.With the ......
2008-02-02 01:18:00
JASON FULGINITI
Considering she's a sophomore who was about to start in the biggest game of her high school career, it was only natural for Erin LaVenice to have her share of butterflies Friday night.After all, there was the huge crowd, which was bigger than any she'd likely seen all year.T......
2008-01-30 01:50:00
PATRICK BURNS
It's often said that high school sports are an extension of the educational process, but the "Three Rs" in student-cheering sections these day could stand for rude, rowdy and reckless.Zac Kraft, first year athletics director of Conestoga Valley High School, said fewer student......
2008-01-29 00:11:00
JEFF HAWKES
It took a hammer and a teacher to turn around Matt Krupa.Talking about it can make him emotional.A senior at Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Krupa, 25, knows how dangerously adrift he was before a carpentry instructor believed in him and set him on a new course....
2008-01-23 00:04:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Local students soon will become more business savvy and give a few political leaders a run for their money by playing the stock market.It's part of Millersville University and EconomicsPennsylvania's third annual Stock Market Game Legislative Challenge.EconomicsPennsylvania is a non......
2008-01-18 02:54:00
LORI VAN INGEN
The new Lancaster Science Factory will be enjoyed by children and adults alike if Thursday night's invitation-only open house is any indication.While 4-year-old Isabella Dubble was totally engaged with the sand pendulum exhibit, her grandmother, Linda Price, said she loved the fact tha......
2008-01-15 12:19:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Thirteen guitarists sit strumming a variety of tunes. Dexterous fingers glide over the nylon strings of the classical guitars, but barely a sound emanates from them. In fact, the music reaches a decibel only slightly louder than a whisper inside the Conestoga Valley High School classroo......
2008-01-09 01:59:00
P.J. REILLY
Two young Lancaster County missionaries caught in the turmoil that engulfed Kenya following a disputed presidential election were flown Sunday to a safer part of the country.Monica Stoltzfus, 18, and Melissa Eby, 19, had been living in Songhor, a small village in the western part of the Af......
2007-12-22 02:32:00
BRIAN WALLACE
The term "wide-area network" doesn't exactly get the heart pounding.But Janet Dubble couldn't be more excited about the WAN — a network of high-speed Internet connections — she's helping develop for local schools.Dubble is instructional technology coordinator for Lancast......
2007-12-22 02:13:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Some Conestoga Valley High School students were rewarded with a pizza party Friday a few hours before the start of their holiday break.They were members of three classes contributing the most money during a school contest that raised more than $10,000 for the Lancaster chapter of the Make-......
2007-12-17 00:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
A 4-foot-high vertical placard in Kathy Phillips' office reads: "I totally agree with myself."That's a mantra earned by Phillips, 39, chief executive and founder of the wholesale rustic craft empire Primitives by Kathy, which celebrated its 10-year anniversary this year....
2007-12-10 12:24:00
JANE HOLAHAN
A year ago today, "Spring Awakening" opened to rave reviews on Broadway, and Jonathan Groff's life hasn't been the same since. "I know I will never experience anything ever like this again in my life," says the 2003 Conestoga Valley High School graduate, who learned ......
2007-12-06 00:24:00
KEVIN FREEMAN
His first professional goal, a position change and a broken nose.A hat trick of sorts, right?That, in a nutshell has been Chris Snavely's introduction to professional hockey. Snavely is believed to be the first Lancaster County native to play pro hockey.Snavely was in Rea......
2007-11-06 00:51:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Brian Ginter, principal of Conestoga Valley High School for the past five years, is planning to take the same job at Warwick High School.Ginter would replace interim principal Michael O'Hara shortly after Jan. 1, pending approval of Warwick school board, according to a news release....
2007-11-03 01:05:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Conestoga Valley High School students have found a way to link themselves with kids who live in a war-torn land halfway around the globe.The local students recently raised $1,776 through a "spirit chain" competition, in which students purchased links in a paper chain to raise mon......
2007-11-03 00:59:00
STAFF REPORT
More than 200 colleges, universities and postsecondary schools — from Albright College to the University of Vermont — will be represented Monday at the 34th annual College Night at Conestoga Valley High school.The free event is scheduled from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Rill Gymnasium......
2007-11-02 11:21:00
ROBYN MEADOWS and CINDY STAUFFER
This is a critical time for the School District of Lancaster. The district needs to hire a superintendent, prepare for a $150-million districtwide improvement project and improve academics. Hoping to lead the district through these challenges are seven candidates for five seats on the scho......
2007-10-27 01:48:00
BILL HANNEGAN
The roster of 21st World Jamboree Troop 110 was typical, with one exception.A Lancaster woman led the group's recent 17-day trip to the birthplace of the 100-year-old Boy Scout movement in England.Scoutmaster Karen Goswell took on the jamboree goals, preparing the group to learn......
2007-10-17 02:32:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Warwick School District has hired consultant Quay Hanna, a self-proclaimed "reformed racist," to help the district address bigotry in the wake of two racial incidents at district schools this month.Hanna, who will be paid $10,000 through the end of the school year, has helped schools, coll......
2007-10-12 01:08:00
MADELYN PENNINO
When Conestoga Valley High School opened its doors for the first time in the fall of 1958, principal Robert Rill knew he was in for a wild ride.Recently, as Conestoga Valley School District was gearing up for tonight's 50th-anniversary homecoming festivities, Rill gathered with a few f......
2007-09-26 18:40:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Conestoga Valley High School sophomore Justin Radanovic will tell you he's a math and science guy.Still, the 16-year-old was recently named a winner in the 2007 America Library of Poetry Contest for a poem he wrote called "A Sense of Thunder."The poem, which was among hundreds of en......
2007-09-18 00:01:00
CHELSEA SHOVER and LINDA ESPENSHADE
Sources: Conestoga Valley Middle School and Conestoga Valley High School teachers Sharon Nolt, Candy Boyer, Desiree Fasciana, Matt Brubaker, Deann Buffington.Explain plagiarism and ask students to sign a plagiarism pledge.
Have an honor code.
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2007-09-04 01:17:00
KIM O'BRIEN
Josh Decker spent a good portion of this summer standing atop a podium, clutching a megaphone."You have five seconds to get in formation. Faster! Faster! We don't want to do push-ups, do we?" Decker said recently to about 50 students standing on the athletic fields of Conesto......
2007-09-04 01:13:00
STAFF REPORTS
Aside from game-day field shows and in-school concerts, many Lancaster County marching bands participate in county- and statewide competitions.Two main competitions are the Tournament of Bands and Cavalcade of Bands.Tournament of Bands, founded in 1972, is one of the largest competi......
2007-08-08 00:54:00
BRIAN WALLACE
School District of Lancaster wants to get more of its high school students to take college courses this year.Penn Manor School District wants to add a career center to its high school and improve the math and reading skills of its vocational-technical students.And Conestoga Valley H......
2007-07-25 00:10:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Beginning this fall, Conestoga Valley High School students will have the opportunity to learn Chinese through a distance learning partnership with Hempfield School District.Eight juniors and seniors have expressed interest in taking Chinese I. They will participate in the class via videoco......
2007-06-22 00:53:00
MICHAEL YODER
A strong wind blew atop the bluff at Chiques Rock as gazers watched the sun swallowed by the horizon and a dark cloud bank across the Susquehanna River.More than 50 people from around the county gathered near the rock, at Breezyview Overlook, Thursday evening to celebrate the summer solsti......
2007-06-09 01:35:00
BRIAN WALLACE
April Shaub was just starting her senior year at Conestoga Valley High School when her world fell apart.On Sept. 22, her mother died of stomach cancer, less than a year after her grandmother died of liver cancer.Shaub, 18, was president of the National Honor Society and was doing we......
