Several Lancaster County school districts held miniTHONs this spring to raise money for the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. THON, aka the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, is the largest student-run cancer awareness organization in the world. The year-r......

As soon as the snow of winter clears away, and the roaring winds of the spring begin to settle, teenage girls all over Lancaster county find themselves worrying about things far larger than the expected rainfall in April — the anticipation of prom. Before a girl can even begin to th......

Although the hobbies of every Lancaster County teenager are unique, one common activity unites teens: going out to eat. According to a study done by the University of Kentucky and Teenage Research Unlimited, teens spend, on average. $103 per week to eat out. An informal Facebook p......

Abby Hirst, a senior at Lampeter-Strasburg High School, arrived home from school Wednesday to a pleasant surprise. A sign in her yard asked, "Prom?" Standing behind the sign was Rocky Reiley, a good friend of Hirst.   She said, "yes." Hirst said it never occurred to......

Most couples, if they heard they were having triplets, would feel overwhelmed, a little freaked out, exhausted just thinking about it. But not Tonya and Kenny Stefanow. The Strasburg couple took the news in stride. "We were excited," said Kenny Stefanow, 33. "We felt honor......

A Lampeter-Strasburg senior has been selected as a finalist for the 2012 Coca-Cola Scholarship. Reed Frey will go to Atlanta April 12 to join other finalists to compete for 52 four-year college schola......

  A 12-hour "Mini-Thon" at Lampeter-Strasburg High School drew more than 200 students who raised money to fight childhood cancer.
From 7 p.m. Friday through 7 a.m. Saturday, the students had plenty of  activities to keep them occupied, because sleep was decidedly a......

After being crowned Fair Queen at the West Lampeter Fair last September, Drew An Brubaker, a senior at Lampeter-Strasburg High School, ascended to the title of 2012 Pennsylvania Fair Queen on Saturday. Her coronation took place in Hershey at the annual joint convention of the Pennsylvania......

"I got shotgun" will be heard less around high school parking lots starting Tuesday, when a law aimed at increasing young driver safety takes effect. Drivers younger than 18 will only be able to carry one passenger who is a minor and not an immediate family member, unless a parent or lega......

Jennifer Lines knows how to brighten a room. With her warm smile, sparkling energy and boundless enthusiasm, the Lampeter-Strasburg High School senior describes herself as a theater and music geek. But if she's a geek, she's one with star power. She also is something of a celebrit......

From midnight on Thanksgiving until the end of December, much of the population is consumed with one general thought: locating that perfect present for that perfect person. For families all over the world, and even here in America, just putting food on the table this holiday season is a s......

If dog is man's best friend, then Jack, a terrier mix, just may be one little girl's guardian angel. "We're so close. Nothing could split us apart," 11-year-old Maya Pieters said Tuesday night at a viewing party of her and Jack's story on Animal Planet's "Saved" series. Or stories......

Animal Planet will feature a Willow Street dog in its new series, "Saved," on Monday, November 28 at 8 p.m. The six-part series looks at animals that have transformed human lives. Maya Pieters, 11, the daughter of Michelle and Mark Pieters, has a rare disorder that causes developm......

Lampeter-Strasburg High School will present "The Miser" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in its Performing Arts Center. The play, director Jeff Marsh said, is an adaptation of Moliere's classic French farce by James Magruder and includes comical wordplay, sassy double-entendres, slaps......

The 87th annual West Lampeter Community Fair kicked off its three-day festivities Wednesday with approximately 3,000 visitors. Cloud cover alternated with sunshine throughout the day, but organizers were thrilled with what amounted to tolerable end-of-summer weather. The day's hig......

The 87th annual West Lampeter Community Fair kicked off its three-day festivities Wednesday with approximately 3,000 visitors. Cloud cover alternated with sunshine throughout the day, but organizers were thrilled with what amounted to tolerable end-of-summer weather. The day's hig......

SAT scores for Lancaster County public school students have declined for the third year in a row. Members of the Class of 2011 scored 16 points lower, on average, than their predecessors in the 2010 graduating class, averaging 1,481 of a possible 2,400 points on the test of reading, math ......

Lancaster's options for funnel cakes and tug-of-war have been plentiful as of late, and soon the 87th annual West Lampeter Community Fair will add another. The three-day event begins at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 28, and concludes in the evening of Friday, Sept. 30. The fairgrounds ......

Cedar Cliff quarterback Tyler Orris threw five touchdown passes during a 35-21 victory over Lampeter-Strasburg in a nonleague contest Saturday night at West Shore Stadium. Th......

Andrew Flinchbaugh comes by his musical talent naturally — along with his penchant for playing tennis. The 17-year-old Lampeter-Strasburg High School senior sings in the choir and plays French horn in the concert band and orchestra. His mother, Margaret, and father, Dr. Kent......

Andrew Flinchbaugh comes by his musical talent naturally — along with his penchant for playing tennis. The 17-year-old Lampeter-Strasburg High School senior sings in the choir and plays French horn in the concert band and orchestra. His mother, Margaret, and father, Dr. Kent......

Landscapes are what tie September's exhibition at Red Raven Art Company together, with the work of Robert Andriulli, Eric Diehl and Tim Hirneisen. While Andriulli's work combines reality with the imagination, both Diehl and Hirneisen approach landscapes in a more pragmatic way, capturing ......

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......

When Lampeter-Strasburg High School students return to the classrooms Monday, they will receive a new piece of information to bring home. This one will cost some parents money. The district is implementing its new activity fee for students in sports and extracurricular activities this school......

Matthew Scott Becker spent the weekend in an observation cell at Lancaster County Prison, where he has been calm and compliant, according to the warden. His recent behavior is a drastic departure from what police allege he exhibited 11 days ago when he killed his pregnant girlfriend in Ma......

Graduating seniors at Lampeter-Strasburg High School were honored this spring with a variety of awards. The three top award winners were announced at graduation on Friday. Spencer L. Haldeman was the class valedictorian. The salutatorian was Banjamin K. Barnhart. Hunter S. Busansky rece......

Hundreds of family and friends fanned themselves with commencement programs Friday evening as the sweltering heat beat down on Pioneer Stadium for Lampeter-Strasburg's 58th Annual graduation ceremony. Parents hooted and hollered when the students walked across the stage in their blue-and-......

Lampeter-Strasburg High School willl hold commencement at 7 p.m. Friday in Pioneer Stadium. The ceremony will be moved indoors to the Performing Arts Center if the weather is bad. Student speakers are Shelby Johnson, who will give opening remarks, and Gabby Fox, who will speak on "More ......

For those with a sweet tooth, being surrounded by decadent cakes, luscious cream puffs and tasty cookies sounds like a sugarplum fairy dream. For Abigail Mowrer, 19, it's her reality. A very scrumptious, lick-the-bowl-clean reality. The aspiring baker and Lampeter-Strasburg High S......

Amid the bustling activity of Lititz's Second Friday, notes of a different kind could be heard. This May, a symphony of string instruments, lively notes of a piano and vocals announced that a group of teens was there hoping to make a difference. Youth of different ages, schools and nationalities ......

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......

Students at Lampeter-Strasburg High School are showing their support for disaster relief in Japan by organizing a sale of origami hearts. Origami is the traditional Japanese art of skillfully folding paper into a finished sculpture. The heart-shaped sculptures are being created by......

Keith Long scored a perfect 800 in math on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. But instead of tooting his own horn, the Lampeter-Strasburg High School senior, who ranks third in his class of 263 students, claims his entire class has outstanding scores. "This is only the second time L-S ......

Lampeter-Strasburg High School senior Dan Makauskas is not one to give up easily. Five years after he asked his friend, Taylor Wimer, to a seventh-grade dance in front of their whole class and she declined, he decided to try again. This time, Makauskas got a little more creative....

Back in the days of wooden racquets, when string technology wasn't such that you could blast winners from 10 feet behind the baseline, patience and consistency were the benchmarks of success. On April 30, two disciples of that style of play will join the Lancaster County Tennis Hall of Fa......

David Ranck, 26, never guessed when he got involved in cheerleading at Lampeter-Strasburg High School that it would lead to working in a musical that may be Broadway bound. Ranck, a 2002 L-S graduate from Strasburg, is in the ensemble of a new show called "Bring It On: The Musical," which......

A former Lampeter-Strasburg High School physical education teacher has been disciplined by the state for viewing sexually explicit material on his school computer in 2007 while students were in his classroom. The state Professional Standards and Practices Commission retroactively suspende......

As they drew their bows in unison at Lancaster Archery Supply's indoor range, high school seniors Carli Cochran and Evan Scudner, at first glance, seemed unlikely teammates. Evan, 18, who stands at six feet tall, dropped his arm to line his shot with the target ahead. Carli, 17, measuring......

The woman told them how her husband had died, how tough things were — and how grateful she was for the items in the box. "And that, right there, was worth the whole four or five hours we've been here doing this," Lampeter-Strasburg High School freshman Avery Reynolds said, ......

The population of the Lampeter-Strasburg School District is growing, but student enrollment is projected to decline. That was the word from Superintendent Robert Frick, who discussed the trends at the Nov. 1 school board meeting. Frick predicted a decline in the number of students......

If the story of a high school soccer player who sings tenor in the chorus sounds a bit like the hit TV series "Glee," it comes as no surprise to Benjamin Barnhart. The 18-year-old Lampeter-Strasburg High School senior has been playing soccer since he was in kindergarten. As an ath......

On his second day as a magisterial district judge this week, while handling a truancy case, William Benner Jr. saw what kind of a judge he wanted to be. Benner could have sent the citation to the truant kids' mom and been done with the case. But a meeting had been set up, and......

A Lampeter-Strasburg senior asked the school board to accept a 300-pound glass-blown sunburst chandelier that he plans for his senior project. Neil Maser said he took a glass-blowing class at The Goggle Works in Reading about a year ago, then began working with Kevin Lehman, who has a pot......

The Lampeter-Strasburg High School homecoming dance will be held after all. Sort of. The school-sponsored event was canceled this year over concerns about lewd dancing at past L-S dances. But a private homecoming dance, dubbed The Lampeter Autumn Affair, will be held in it......

Lampeter-Strasburg officials expect a large crowd Friday when their undefeated Pioneer football team takes on Manheim Central on L-S turf. School board member Richard Graff expressed concern at Monday's school board meeting about whether the district had adequate seating for the anticipated ......

For 10 years, Christy McCanna had organized and chaperoned the homecoming dance at Lampeter-Strasburg High School. But after witnessing what went on at last year's dance, McCanna quit. Girls were bent over, their backsides thrust in the air, rubbing against the torsos of boys, groups of......

It was a little touch-and-go when the rain poured down. But the brief downpour around 5 p.m. Wednesday didn't last long enough to deter crowds packing the grounds for the opening of the 86th annual West Lampeter Community Fair. "We were a little worried," fair president Don Welk s......

Correction Sept. 23, 2010 — The participation rate for Lampeter-Strasburg High School is 67 percent. An incorrect number was provided to the newspaper. ••• ......

The mother of a Lampeter-Strasburg High School student is seeking a religious exemption from the district's random-drug-testing program. Janet Malin of Willow Street told the board Monday that she and her son belong to the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers. A core tenet,......

Maybe you indulge in a milkshake or some french fries? Watch the calf-roping contest or check out the pigs and sheep. Or is the tug of war more your style? The 86th annual West Lampeter Fair, which opens Wednesday, has something for everyone — as long as that something has t......

Lampeter-Strasburg School District Superintendent Robert Frick provided an update Monday on the high school's drug testing program.The random testing applies to students who are involved in extracurricular activities or who drive to school.In its first year, two students had non......

Some have compared Stephen Strasburg's three-digit fastball to a steaming locomotive.Just another thing the young major leaguer has in common with a local town. Well, aside from the obvious — which is printed on the back of his Washington Nationals jersey.Strasburg, an ins......

Chelsey Ott's mother thinks her daughter should interview and analyze terrorists in Arabic.The recent Lampeter-Strasburg High School graduate studied Arabic for a semester at Franklin & Marshall College last fall."It was really exciting," said Ott, 17.With h......

They were fellow students she'd see all the time in the hallways or cafeteria at Lampeter-Strasburg High School, Kelsey Dewar recalled. They were students raising money for people they didn't know, people struck by a calamity far away, and her classmates were "trying to make their ......

The ninth season of Allegro, the Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster, might be seen as something of a parent-child reunion.The concert is set for Saturday at Franklin & Marshall College's Barshinger Center.Allegro conductor Brian Norcross will be among those out to demonstrate th......

Lampeter-Strasburg High School math teacher Anna Metzler learned last week that her full-time job would be reduced to a 65-percent position this fall.On Monday evening, the entire high school math department attended an L-S school board meeting in support of Metzler and her full-time posit......

State Rep. Scott Boyd told about 100 teachers on Thursday that he supports changes in the way future education retirements are funded.With tax hikes to fund pensions on the horizon, Boyd told teachers from Lampeter-Strasburg, Conestoga Valley and Penn Manor that "there is bad blood ou......

Darry Miller will not be lonely this weekend.Miller, an aspiring musician who graduated from Lampeter-Strasburg High School a few years ago, is going to be spending time in Lancaster city with a crowd of young men and women with similar dreams and similar ambitions.Miller and his th......

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......

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......

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......

When Paula Dussinger sat at her kitchen table one afternoon last March to read the local newspaper, she had no idea that the front-page article would change her family's life forever.That story was about homeless students in Lancaster County.The photo showed a teenage girl foldi......

Katie Austin sees them all the time: families with a child who's battling cancer or leukemia.And when she tells them she knows what they're going through, she means it.The Lampeter-Strasburg High School graduate battled leukemia herself a decade ago. Now 22 and a senior at P......

The year 2009 was a mixed blessing for Blue Note recording artist and perennial poll- topper Joe Lovano. His "Folk Art" CD got the most prizes and accolades in the jazz press, but the veteran saxophonist ended 2009 with both arms broken in separate car accidents while on tour in Europe.......

Ronald Fox is a well-rounded teen who enjoys academics, athletics and the arts.The Lampeter-Strasburg High School senior, who is the son of Ron Jr. and Darlene Fox of Strasburg, ranks ninth in his class of 282 students and is a commended National Merit Scholar.The 18-year-old aspire......

Disaster can bring out the worst in human nature, and it also can bring out the best.Earthquake-ravaged Haiti has found many partners that are sending money and much-needed supplies in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 disaster.Among them are Lancaster County churches and organizations, ......

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....

When a student at Strasburg Elementary School sneezes, he or she can thank the state Department of Health for the tissues and hand sanitizer in the classroom.So can students at other public and private schools in Lancaster County, which in recent days have been receiving swine flu "ca......

Theatergoers attending the Lampeter-Strasburg School District's play "12 Angry Men" — which is being staged Wednesday through Saturday at 7 each night — should not come expecting the classic film starring Henry Fonda.First, both male and female actors play the &qu......

Lampeter-Strasburg School District plans to administer up to 500 H1N1 vaccines to its students Thursday night.District nurses will give free swine flu shots to students from 5 to 7 p.m. at L-S High School Performing Arts Center.The only pupils eligible to receive a shot are those wh......

The recession has many business owners running for cover, like they've been caught outside in a rainstorm.Then there's new entrepreneur Patty Traynor.She's willing to get wet for a while, so when the sun pops out eventually, she'll feel its warmth."This i......

Students who care about what they're learning are less likely to drop out of school, conventional wisdom says.But providing kids with compelling courses taught by caring, committed teachers sometimes isn't enough.Schools also need to offer options — night and weekend c......

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......

How bad will the swine flu be in schools this year?Will schools close if they reach a certain absenteeism rate?Will schools vaccinate students?If they do, how will they refrigerate potentially thousands of vaccines until they are distributed? Who will actually give the vaccin......

Lampeter-Strasburg High School students in extracurricular activities this fall will be subject to random drug testing.The L-S school board, in a 6-2 vote Monday night, approved new drug policies for the district, including random drug testing for students in extracurricular activities or ......

The post-concert conversation was going well. Local drummer Dennis Markley, in Red Lion to see Christian rock band Sonicflood, had introduced himself to the group's drummer. An hour of drum-speak about technique and equipment had ensued. Then Markley asked a question that would change ......

One could say the Lampeter-Strasburg Class of 2009 went out with a bang Friday night in the school's performing arts center.Principal Carroll Staub noted the class had the honor of being the largest L-S class ever, with 277 graduates, along with having the highest PSSA scores. The clas......

Even after Samantha Langone graduates from Lampeter-Strasburg High School tonight, her legacy will live on. A dominant force on the field hockey team, she holds the school record for the most goals scored in a season. This past year, she scored 20. The team captain, she was named to the La......

The Lampeter-Strasburg school board last week continued its discussion on proposed random drug testing.The district formed a drug and alcohol task force to study the issue and to make recommendations to the board. Its suggestions included the institution of random drug testing for students......

Composer Michael Story of Houston writes an average of one commissioned piece for a school each year, in addition to his full-time position with Alfred Publishing of Los Angeles. Often when composing for a school, Story works solely with band directors, who sometimes offer little input on the p......

A survey shows marijuana use among Lampeter-Strasburg School District sophomores went up 5.5 percent from 2005 to 2007, school board member Scott Riekers said last week, and a district task force has come up with some possible methods of dealing with the issue. At a May 5 board meeting, Riek......

Floating on his back in a pristine lake in Guatemala, Chris Waggoner thought, "It doesn't get any better than this."Then the crocodile bit his head."I was doing the backstroke in the tranquil, natural beauty of the clear water and everything was pretty much perfec......

Bartenders aren't baby sitters.That's the opinion of several local people in the bar business in reaction to prosecutors who recently filed involuntary manslaughter charges against a Dauphin County bar in connection with a fatal car crash that happened more than a year ago.O......

About one in three Lancaster County high school graduates enrolled in a state-owned university or community college can't pass a first-year math or English course, according to a study released this week by the state Department of Education.The study was presented to the state Board of......

Justin and Ben Welk are the caretakers of several pigs with personality on their family farm in Strasburg.Butterscotch, a 260-pound Yorkshire and Hampshire crossbreed, is the boss of the lot. She munches on marshmallows and keeps Miranda, named for country singer Miranda Lambert, and Jana,......

On Black Friday, Abby Arndt wasn't crashing stores to check out potential Christmas presents. The Lampeter-Strasburg High School junior didn't hang out with friends at the mall or go to a movie. Arndt, 16, and 20 of her L-S Interact Club classmates were teaching English to children......

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......

As Marie Breneman descended the stairway in Willow Street Elementary School, memories of her childhood flooded back to her. "The room downstairs was our lunch room and assembly room," she said. "And I don't remember what year it was, but they had a TV installed to watch the a......

Katie Wieand, of Lancaster, is an opera singer of international note. But what is especially noteworthy for this longtime cook is when she strikes a chord among members of her culinary audience. "I like seeing pleased eaters," she says. "I like that first reaction when (t......

Phillip Brown slowed the locomotive to a lazy chug as the train rounded the turn near the tiny village church.He carefully maneuvered the cars past the post office and general store, letting them pick up speed as the train crossed the bridge heading into the east side of town."......

During their school presentations, Julie Armold and Gretchen Gaudioso, of Mental Health America of Lancaster County, challenge kids to choose. Who has a mental illness? Is it Armold or Gaudioso? Or both? They remain mum until near the end of their educational presentation, when the......

A high school student fight that took place in Millersville does not appear to have been instigated for the purpose of taping it and posting it online, contrary to what the victim's father suggested this week, officials said. A tape of the fight, which took place after a football game betwe......

For James Wolpert, vying for a shot at fame in the upcoming "High School Musical" movie was worth every ounce of energy it took, even if he didn't win the top spot. James, a 17-year-old senior at Lampeter-Strasburg High School, was one of 12 finalists chosen to appear in the ABC s......

Anticipation for the 84th annual West Lampeter Community Fair was felt at least a mile away, as motorists waited patiently to turn into the grassy lot.As they drove closer, the festival sounds became more distinct: a distant marching band, the patient voice of an announcer, the buzz of exc......

Police have concluded that a beating captured on cell-phone cameras and posted online was not orchestrated for Internet entertainment.•••The assault of a teenager on the Millersville University campus earlier this month was not carried ......

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.......

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......

Recent graduates of Lampeter-Strasburg High School finally can pick up new yearbooks, after the originals contained hundreds of errors — most notably, missing photos of a fellow classmate who died in April.The new yearbooks' arrival to the high school office is just in time, as m......

If you were to walk into a local high school's weight room on a summer morning, you likely would find a number of teenage athletes lifting weights and working out to ensure they stay in tip-top shape over the summer, so they will excel in their sports throughout the upcoming school year.......

Addie Cunningham admits things have changed in the 47 years she has lived in the 500 block of South Lime Street.She can no longer leave her door unlocked all day and is bothered by crime that occurs in the surrounding area.But she and her husband, Cornelius Sr., love their home and ......

James Wolpert got one step closer to landing the top spot on ABC's newest reality show Monday night.The Lampeter-Strasburg 17-year-old made it past the first cut on "High School Musical: Get in the Picture" and is now one of the final 10 performers vying for the grand prize....

Lampeter-Strasburg High School senior James Wolpert has earned the opportunity to break into showbiz's big picture and possibly make it to the big time.The 17-year-old is a contestant on ABC's reality series "High School Musical: Get in the Picture," during which contesta......

In the long run, it will be just a blip on his baseball career.Three-for-four with a pair of doubles.A game like that and a minor-league baseball player's future looks a little bit brighter.Especially when he's had to dodge a few clouds.Monday night was just su......

Lampeter-Strasburg students upset over the quality of their yearbooks have been promised a "super supplement" to the error-laden book.Students received letters, dated June 12, from principal Carroll Staub stating that a supplement to the yearbook will be published containing corr......

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....

Lampeter-Strasburg Class of 2008 said an emotional farewell Friday in Pioneer Stadium.In addition to the tough goodbyes after years of being in school together, 256 students paid tribute to a classmate who died before graduation day.Principal Carroll J. Staub paused with emotion whe......

The funeral is over, the flowers have been placed and the obituary has run, but many teens have found that grief doesn't end so quickly.Some use social networking Web sites, like MySpace and Facebook, to connect with others who share the same loss."I think you can get (feel......

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......

Lampeter-Strasburg High School plans to get its juniors and seniors on eight wheels this fall to help improve their fitness.The school has received a $5,000 grant to purchase 50 sets of inline skates, helmets and safety pads for a new inline skating physical-education program.Mark T......

If Ryan Weitzel could be heard today, his friends and family say, he would speak in a voice full of optimism and encourage people to live life to the fullest.As the sun set over Lampeter-Strasburg High School's football stadium Tuesday, the community turned out by the hundreds for a ca......

Seven weeks after a metal plate was inserted in his right thighbone, the 17-year-old badly wanted to play lacrosse one last time. Doctors, however, told Ryan Weitzel that playing in the all-star high school invitational tournament last July at Franklin & Marshall College was too risky....

A Lancaster County judge has ordered Lampeter-Strasburg School District to reinstate a student it expelled last fall, ruling the district wrongly based its decision on hearsay evidence and exceeded its authority in expelling the pupil.The Martin Meylin Middle School eighth-grader was expel......

WHO WE ARE
Samantha L. Feaster, 17
Lampeter-Strasburg High School
Alyssa Henry, 18
Lampeter-Strasburg High School
Even though they're best friends, Samantha and Alyssa say they're actually pretty different. "Sami......

Back in the 1980s, when Dr. Dan Good and John Yecker began photographing the universe, there were plenty of limitations to what they could do. It's an endlessly vast place, after all. But the digital revolution changed everything. The series of photographs Good and Yecker have on ......

This weekend, Lancaster Museum of Art's Scholastic Art Awards exhibit provided — as it does every year — a rich array of sketches, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and other modern art forms.Now in its 45th year, the event added a new wrinkle, one greatly appreciated by Will......

During a trip home from New Mexico recently, Lampeter-Strasburg High School graduate Dayna DaLauro stopped by her alma mater for a visit. DaLauro, now a pharmacist, did not just reminisce about old times. Instead, she brought the appreciation of the students and staff at Dowa Yalanne Elementary......

Ephrata High School has new prescriptions for students to take before they graduate: more math and more exercise. Beginning with this year's freshman class, students will have to pass four math credits before they graduate. They are also going to take four years of physical education. ......

The Christmas tree lights and the tinsel still glittered. Tony Bennett's version of "My Favorite Things" echoed through the hallways. And a few people wore floppy red Santa hats.Yes, Virginia, there's still shopping to do after Santa Claus delivers the loot.Wednesd......

Although the snow forecast for Sunday skirted to the north, Lancaster County still had to wrestle with its share of weather-related problems.Ice and high winds were blamed for causing about 6,200 county homes to lose power for at least some part of the day.As of late Sunday night, a......

The field of Republicans weighing a campaign for retiring state Sen. Gibson E. Armstrong's seat is getting more crowded by the day. Two more potential candidates have emerged — one a freshman lawmaker who beat Armstrong's son for the House in 2005, and the second a top aide to the......

Santa's Paradise Express is about to pull out of the station.The popular holiday train ride features Christmas carolers, brass horns and a personal visit with Santa during its 45-minute journey through the Amish countryside.Festivities will begin as soon as the visitor reaches t......

As a way of providing support to young people who may be considering dropping out of Lampeter-Strasburg High School, Assistant Principal Scott Rimmer is helping to pioneer a program that helps students make better choices when faced with a possibly life-altering decision in their teenage years....

Say the words "High School Musical" and you've got a phenomenon on your hands. Just ask Kevin Ditzler, who is directing the stage version of the smash hit Disney show at the Ephrata Playhouse in the Park beginning Friday and running through Dec. 22. "We've already......

Mary DeLauro said she loves it when her students exceed her expectations — especially in the generosity department.The Lampeter-Strasburg High School teacher said she spent one class talking about the Great Depression, relating the topic to the children who live on an Indian reservat......

Slowly but steadily, Lancaster County's public schools are becoming less homogeneous and more a melting pot of races and ethnic groups.From 2004-05 to 2006-07, white enrollment at county schools declined by nearly 1,100 students, while the black and Hispanic student body increased by a......

At this point, they own the two best records in the Lancaster-Lebanon League — something that many, back in August, might have predicted would be the case.More importantly, both seem to be growing back into the form that eventually led them to appearances in a PIAA final last fall....

One local field hockey coach said it wouldn't be a surprise to see all three Section Two teams knocked out in Saturday's quarterfinal round of the L-L League playoffs.While that prediction did come true, that coach, and most hockey aficionados from this area, probably didn't see Warwick al......

Carolyn Leaman still remembers growing up on her family's farm, where they raised cows, chickens and steers.The Strasburg resident said she wants to pass along what it's like to be around agriculture, so Thursday afternoon she took her granddaughters, 5-year-old Jasmin and 4-year-o......

Shelly Fairchild said she always dreamed of standing on the stage in front of her peers and telling them what West Lampeter Community Fair means to her.Wednesday night the 18-year-old Lampeter-Strasburg High School senior got her chance, and emerged as the 2007 West Lampeter Fair Queen....

Computers and interactive chalkboards. Projectors, scanners and video cameras. When it comes to high-tech 21st century classrooms, Lampeter-Strasburg High School is ahead of the curve thanks to a recent six-figure state grant."Thanks to this grant, we're going to be able to change the way ......

Under a clear moonlit Monday night, volunteers of all ages put the finishing touches on the West Lampeter fairgrounds — setting up animal pens and produce exhibits and preparing food stands.Billed as a true farm show — no carnival rides or games — the West Lampeter Commun......

Jon wasn't prepared for a geography test in his Spanish class, so he had to come up with a plan — fast.Did he quickly review the material? Not quite."I drew a map of South America on my ankle," said Jon, a 2006 Donegal High School graduate, who asked that his las......

Penn Manor High School principal Jan Mindish knew the Class of 2007 was an exceptionally bright group of students — and now she has the numbers to prove it.The school's SAT scores surged by 32 points in writing, 14 points in reading and 6 points in math from 2006 to 2007.C......

For marching band directors, one of the biggest challenges occurs before students even pick up their instruments:The challenge? Selecting the right music for each year's performances.Larry Royer, Lampeter-Strasburg director, said for him the process starts months before band cam......

The results are in, and the top 12 Lancaster Headliners finalists have been chosen. More than 3,400 votes were cast in July on the Lancaster Headliners' Web site, and the talented teens are preparing themselves for the finale show.The finalists will perform at the live finale 2 p.m. Su......

It didn't take long for Josh Burg to realize that fortune, and perhaps fate, were on his side Monday afternoon."When I got to 3-under after just being even(-par) … in 20 minutes," Burg said, "It was like, where did that come from?"Not that he was compl......

Jeff Swarr has the same problem many of us have. There are just not enough hours in a day.That fact became particularly evident over the last year when Swarr tried to teach part-time and perform the duties of head coach for the Millersville University's baseball team part-time.B......

Storm clouds may have threatened, but in the end a slightly shorter ceremony meant that all 243 members of Lampeter-Strasburg High School's Class of 2007 were able to graduate Friday in Pioneer Stadium before the rain came."By our estimation, 77 percent of this graduating class wi......

Manheim Township seniors Tim Stratton and John DuBois, along with a few friends, traveled to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championships in Baltimore just over a week ago.Playing in the tournament were the Duke Blue Devils and a member of the squad was a freshman named Max Quinzani, who, pri......

The Lancaster-Lebanon League will have three softball teams beginning quests for state titles as the PIAA Championships get under way today with the opening round.In Class AAA, Lampeter-Strasburg (24-1) is making its first state tournament appearance in the history of the program, and will......

Many Lancaster County families will be celebrating high school graduations over the next two weeks.Students of public, parochial and private schools will march through stadiums, auditoriums and sanctuaries. Bad weather may force postponement or relocation of ceremonies to overcrowded, over......