2012-05-06 00:08:00
MICHAEL LONG
Anyone who has set up an account with a major online entity such as Apple or Yahoo has had to select and answer a few security questions. These questions tend to be tied to memorable life experiences: What was the name of your first pet? What was the make and model of your first car? And,......
2012-04-03 14:55:00
ROXANNE TODD
Solanco School District board members accepted the resignations of two long-time teachers Monday. Melode Forsha and Joan DeBakey will retire at the end of the school year. Forsha, a Providence Elementary School kindergarten teacher, has been with the district since 1978. DeBakey, a......
2011-12-31 20:04:00
BRITTANY HORN
Not many women dream of having 19 children, but Jill Long doesn't get much of a say. Each year, her first-grade classroom at Salisbury Elementary School fills with new students and it's Long's job to make them feel at home. The 33-year-old teacher might not have any children o......
2011-12-22 10:27:00
ROXANNE TODD
Swift Middle School Reading Specialist Alison McPherson has earned the highest credential available to a teacher in America.
She has become a National Board Certified Teacher, which is a certification that takes one to three years to complete. The certification requires the demonstration ......
2011-11-27 00:20:00
SUZANNE CASSIDY
When 10-year-old Abby Stone went on a field trip to the state Capitol last school year, she saw the House chamber, and decided she wanted to be a state representative when she grows up. The Centerville Elementary fifth-grader had been looking forward to going to Gettysburg wit......
2011-10-23 00:06:00
MICHAEL LONG
My mother recently dug out a box of old photographs and newspaper clippings, and in that box, tucked into a manila folder, were a few yellowing pages from the March 14, 1985, edition of the Lititz Record Express. The main headline in the Penryn and Elm News section read: "Whit......
2011-10-09 00:05:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
New math teachers in urban schools sometimes leave their jobs after only a couple of years. They're prepared to teach math, but not for the challenges that come with teaching in city districts. Millersville University wants to change that. And a $1.2 million grant from the National Science F......
2011-09-30 23:28:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Ask any parent how many of his or her child's teachers and principals have been effective, and it's likely a couple of educators won't rate very highly. But Pennsylvania's current evaluation system gives virtually every public school teacher and principal in the state a favora......
2011-08-22 10:46:00
CIVIA KATZ
Manheim Central's school board approved a new teaching position after much discussion at its meeting last Tuesday. The position will be added to help decrease the size of kindergarten classes at Stiegel Elementary School. The school was scheduled to have two classes, one with 23 stude......
2011-08-19 10:33:00
STAFF
Mark R. Anderson, of Columbia, was recently chosen as winner of the 2011 Ideas Unlimited Award for Region VI by the National Association of Agricultural Educators.
The Ideas Unlimited contest is designed to give agricultural educators an opportunity ......
2011-08-18 14:45:00
DEBBIE WYGENT
The Octorara Area School Board tweaked the district personnel roster Monday in anticipation of the new school year. Although there is no new contract with teachers, the board signed two memorandums of understanding with its teachers union, and is approving regular salary step increases for t......
2011-08-11 00:30:00
Correspondent
While Linden Hall art teacher Nora Workman took off on an adventure to faraway Turkey, her daughter Anna Workman, a Linden Hall senior served her community far closer to home.
Nora Workman participated in a summer studies program Turkey, which was intended to create a g......
2011-05-29 17:35:00
LORI VAN INGEN
China wasn't even on Ken Gerhard's radar before retiring as a Manheim Township teacher and coach in 1997. But since then, the 70-year-old Lititz resident has come to love the country and its people. "I was in the church office at Lititz Moravian when I saw a sign that said English teach......
2011-04-03 00:15:00
MANDY STOLTZFUS
Heidi Marshall was doing what she does on a normal Saturday: grading papers, creating lesson plans, writing notes to students and drinking Diet Pepsi. Except this time she was surrounded by other teachers doing the same things in the middle of the busy food court at Park City Center. Ma......
2011-03-20 00:21:00
SUZANNE CASSIDY
Beth Rosenberg has taught roomfuls of elementary students for more than 30 years, and nothing seems to take the shine off of her enthusiasm for her chosen profession. Not even the criticisms of those who assail teachers as overpaid and under-worked. Teachers "know what we......
2011-03-19 21:32:00
SUZANNE CASSIDY
Much of the swirling rancor toward teachers has to do with the dislike some people have for teachers' unions. Nathan Benefield, director of policy research at the conservative Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg, contends that teachers' unions "are detrimental to taxpayers, ......
2010-12-14 23:51:00
BRIAN WALLACE
The American Civil Liberties Union has decided not to pursue a complaint by a substitute teacher who alleges she was "blackballed" by Manheim Township School District after her husband publicly criticized township students for not participating in the Pledge of Allegiance.
In addition, th......
2010-12-12 00:08:00
JON RUTTER
Gene Freeman promised his Nitrauer Elementary School art class a million dollars if they could answer a couple of questions. They didn't let him down. They told him the single most important thing they'd learned that morning about architectural drawing (use a ruler!). Then they tol......
2010-10-08 22:21:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Lancaster police allege a McCaskey High School English teacher had sexual relations with one of her students. Christy L. Smith, 32, of the 700 block of College Avenue, was taken into custody at her home Thursday evening by Lancaster city police detectives. She is charged with multiple felony......
2010-09-16 17:04:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
"Lancaster's better angels have prevailed," says Music For Everyone's John Gerdy.
After spending an entire summer on the streets of Lancaster relying on the kindness of strangers for shelter and care, all but two of the Keys for the City's 23 decorated pianos have lived to play another da......
2010-07-18 00:05:00
MANDY STOLTZFUS
Lancaster artist Susan Gottlieb's love of art and teaching is taking her to the ends of the earth. She is spending four weeks in Chiang Mai, Thailand, working as a teacher in the Cultural Canvas Thailand's Canvas Art Program. "This is how I can pursue my passion for the und......
2010-06-11 21:22:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Eastern Lancaster County School District and its teachers have agreed to a new contract just days after a similar proposal was rejected by the school board. Superintendent Bob Hollister said the tentative agreement, announced Friday, is "very, very close" to the settlement proposed by fact-f......
2010-05-30 00:15:00
GREG CALDWELL
Jeff Bradley knew his retirement last year meant he could finally start preparing for the adventure of a lifetime that will take up most of his summer. Bradley, 58, of Landisville, will be biking 4200 miles across the country from the West Coast to Yorktown, Virginia. The trip, which will follo......
2010-05-28 21:55:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Lancaster County Academy has won a one-year reprieve from the state on a requirement that it substantially change how it operates or shut down.Academy officials learned earlier this year that the school, which enrolls students who have dropped out or are struggling in high school, was not ......
2010-05-25 21:06:00
BRIAN WALLACE
A former substitute teacher has been stripped of her teaching credentials for engaging in sexual activity in 2008 with a boy who was 16.The state Professional Standards and Practices Commission revoked the elementary teaching certificate of Kristen S. Straley on March 25.Straley, 25......
2009-12-27 00:06:00
JON RUTTER
Emma Eck is taking a couple of ambitious New Year's resolutions with her today when she leaves the United States for Rwanda. The 31-year-old Lancaster woman said last week that she plans to establish a science lab at L'ecole des Sciences de Musanze, the boarding school where she'......
2009-12-09 21:40:00
LYNN COMMERO
Lampeter-Strasburg school board members voted 6-3 Monday night to accept the resignation of an elementary band instructor who says she was unfairly forced to resign because she called off sick to go to a music conference.Jennifer Theilacker of Willow Street, who was in her eighth year of t......
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 ......
2009-08-31 00:03:00
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....
2009-07-19 00:13:00
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
No sport spins off more gurus than golf. There are course-design gurus, equipment gurus, psychology-of-golf, swing-theory and technique gurus. Jeff Ritter is becoming a guru of the full golf experience. Ritter, a 37-year-old Manheim Township High School graduate, is fast earning a ......
2009-05-28 19:59:00
LINDA ESPENSHADE
Count them: Seven, eight, nine worms.Third-grader Davion Abrante holds the mass of wiggling worms in his hand.He watches over his classmates' shoulders as they dig holes, planting green beans, lettuce and pumpkin plants outside Buchanan Elementary School — snatching up the......
2009-05-27 11:00:00
KATY HOPKINS
"Sheer generosity" — and a lot of sheared hair — highlighted "Operation Baldy" on Tuesday at Manheim Township High School. Eleven teachers donated their heads to be shaved in "Baldy," a fundraising effort for fellow teacher Brian Earley's daughter, ......
2009-05-24 00:21:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The way Matt Przywara sees it, there's a freight train speeding down the tracks. And the School District of Lancaster is tied to the rails. So at Tuesday's budget meeting Przywara, the district's chief financial officer, recommended that the school board hike taxes this year......
2009-05-14 00:33:00
MICHAEL YODER
A Lancaster Township woman accused of an attack on her husband that allegedly led to his death Saturday is now facing charges from the incident.Tonya Lynese Potter, 41, of 1240 E. Orange St., was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault for allegedly attacking her husband, Robert Potter, 48......
2009-05-08 00:01:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Students at Mountville Elementary School were on their feet Thursday stomping, clapping and singing along with Grammy-nominated children's entertainer Red Grammer.Grammer visited Mountville as part of Red Day, which was a culminating event of the school's social skills program call......
2009-04-22 13:35:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Something magical must be in the air at this small, city elementary school housed in an old-fashioned building tucked away, under the trees, on West Orange Street. In the past five years, Fulton Elementary School has produced 10 nationally recognized poets, all under the age of 12. Meet......
2009-04-16 11:23:00
TOM MURSE
A Warwick High School science teacher quit his job this week after a criminal probe into rumors he had an inappropriate, four-month relationship with a student. State police in Ephrata determined "nothing criminal had occurred" under the Pennsylvania Crimes Code. But the teacher, 25-y......
2009-03-28 01:18:00
BRIAN WALLACE
American students don't exactly have a stellar reputation compared to their peers in other industrialized countries. But ask Qi Liu, a teacher from China — where the school day is 12 hours long — about School District of Lancaster students, and she doesn't hesitate. &qu......
2009-03-28 01:16:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Qi Liu has overcome language barriers, cultural differences and homesickness in the six months she's been teaching Chinese to School District of Lancaster students. But a couple of cats almost did her in. Qi arrived in Lancaster in August from Tianjin, a city of 10 million — China's ......
2009-03-20 01:06:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Amid the police barricades, metal detectors and protesters at Millersville University, Bill Ayers gave a surprisingly intimate and upbeat talk Thursday about what it means to be a good teacher.Ayers, senior university scholar and professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chic......
2009-02-10 10:51:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Manheim Central School Board tonight will talk about a proposal to freeze and delay pay increases. The special meeting is likely to be a lively one as several residents last month criticized the board for approving pay raises for administrators in December. The same month, Lancaster County hit ......
2009-01-13 01:38:00
BRIAN WALLACE
A final push to sway today's vote on a proposed $114 million building project in Donegal School District has turned ugly.Supporters of the project accused opponents of vandalizing their yard signs in recent days, and referendum opponents said Donegal teachers and PTO members have been ......
2009-01-09 10:30:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
As English and social studies teachers go, we are a land of plenty. Science and math teachers? Not so much. And special-education teachers, who are qualified to teach science and math, are especially rare. Over the next six years, the nation will need tens of thousands of high......
2009-01-02 11:02:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
When the director of the Hempfield Symphony Strings broke his leg in November, his absence left some big shoes to fill. Hempfield High School's holiday concerts were just around the corner, and Donald Grabowski was out of action. That's when senior Michael Groff stepped up to le......
2008-12-01 11:38:00
TOM MURSE
Linda Moyer was a veteran English teacher known for pushing her Pequea Valley High School seniors to their full potential whether they were heading to college or not. Colleagues remember the 59-year-old woman's tough exterior — she was battling cancer but vowed to get back to the clas......
2008-11-10 10:22:00
LEANNA LANDSMAN
Q. Our daughter's college fund has plummeted. She's a senior with an eye on colleges out of state. We can't afford them, and she's putting on the "pout." How can I convince her she'll do just fine if she goes to a lower-cost local option?
A. Tell her she's not the only kid in t......
2008-10-13 10:26:00
LEANNA LANDSMAN / New Era Columnist
Q. Our school district is considering adding more than an hour to the school day. Parents can give input at the October board meeting. It would be great for my own schedule, and maybe my son, Marcelo, could participate in more activities. However, he is easily bored at school, so more time s......
2008-10-05 00:20:00
SUZANNE CASSIDY
Forget the Dow Jones index. If you want to get a sense of how the looming recession may be affecting the lives of ordinary Americans living here in Lancaster County, you may wish to consider the Buckskin Cheesecake Index. Last year, Conestoga Valley School District's Junior Buckskin ch......
2008-10-01 00:04:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Students at Fritz Elementary School said Tuesday it's hard to imagine just how vast the oceans and continents are.But they were able to gain perspective on those concepts through Adventure Earth, a traveling program that teaches students across the country about geography, math an......
2008-09-29 10:21:00
LEANNA LANDSMAN
Q. Since school started, Butler, my third-grader, has lost a book, can't remember his homework, loses his spelling list and forgets whether he goes to the after-school program or the sitter. I was home for his first years of school, but now I work, and he needs to get organized. My sister......
2008-09-15 10:35:00
LEANNA LANDSMAN
Q. My son, Carter, a high-school senior, writes computer programs. He earns more than we do, and the work will put him through college. He shocked us by saying he wants to drop out and start a business. Except for sports, he's bored. (School just started!) He says he's wasting his time. We t......
2008-08-26 00:53:00
MADELYN PENNINO
While many new teachers in Hempfield School District are settling into unfamiliar surroundings, for others it's like coming home.That's how Ashley Harris said she felt Monday morning as she began her first day teaching kindergarten at Farmdale Elementary School.Harris, 22, o......
2008-08-25 11:13:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
In the quiet hour before the children arrive for the first day of school at Centerville Elementary, teachers grab their mail, greet office staff and stroll to their classrooms. This first day is a "piece of cake" for veterans like David Weaver, who has taught at Centerville for 35 yea......
2008-08-18 10:31:00
LEANNA LANDSMAN
Q. My son Dakota starts kindergarten soon and was excited about it — until last week, when he started to cry about it. He's an only child and may be a little spoiled. Do you think that's the problem? School starts in a few days, and he's having meltdowns! I'm in a panic.
......
2008-08-17 00:21:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Teachers seeking a position with the best health care benefits have much in common with real estate agents. For both, the three most important considerations are location, location, location. Teach in the Warwick or Ephrata Area school districts and your annual individual contribution towa......
2008-08-04 10:19:00
LEANNA LANDSMAN
Q. We're buying a new car, and my twin 8-year-olds are begging me to get a built-in DVD player for it. We monitor our kids' TV watching, so I'm not inclined to cave in, but the car dealer says it's safer for the driver and more educational for the kids if they aren't bickering in the back. W......
2008-07-21 07:01:00
LEANNA LANDSMAN
Q. My fourth- and sixth-grade sons have summer reading contracts from school that they aren't interested in completing. Their grandmother, who has a Kindle, wants to get them one. She says the boys will be more motivated to read books on a screen, rather than on paper. What do you think?......
2008-07-07 07:01:00
LEANNA LANDSMAN
Q. My son's fourth-grade teacher wants me to put him in the school's summer program. She says that it will help Terrell do better in fifth grade. He's not a great student, but he's not failing, so I'm not sure why he should go. Plus, I'd have to drive him. Is this worth it?
A. ......
2008-06-10 01:32:00
LAURA KNOWLES
After more than a year without a contract, Warwick School District teachers have a four-year contract that will take them into 2011.At a special meeting of Warwick school board Monday, the board approved the collective bargaining agreement with the Warwick Education Foundation, which repre......
2008-06-06 11:48:00
TOM MURSE
Todd Sheerer. Norman McMillan. Robert Richards. Michael Wolf. You've seen their names, read about their alleged sexual misdeeds with local high school students, and surely noted the seemingly trivial detail tying these four together: They taught music — be it in......
2008-05-29 00:40:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
When Melissa Leighty's husband died unexpectedly in March, she did not know how she would provide for her family.Frank Abbandando died of a heart attack, leaving behind Leighty and their children Anastasia, 10, and Dylan, 7.Friends and staff from her children's school, Hambr......
2008-05-14 13:08:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Can a student teacher be punished by a university for posting a photo of herself, captioned "drunken pirate," on a MySpace Web site? Does that violate her free speech rights? Last year, Millersville University graduate and former student teacher Stacy Snyder filed a lawsuit ag......
2008-05-13 11:31:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A tragic mishap killed a York County teacher found dead in rugged terrain along the Susquehanna River in March, police have concluded. "It was an accidental death consistent with a fall and exposure," Susquehanna Regional Police Chief Ed Haugh said today. Police had been waiting ......
2008-05-09 07:03:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO
It's tough to convince Beth Miller that her hobby is statistically more dangerous than that of her husband John and daughter, Maureen. Beth is an avid horseback rider, while John and Maureen have a serious affection for sky diving. "They keep pointing out how dangerous my sport is," Bet......
2008-05-09 01:51:00
CINDY HUMMEL
Lampeter-Strasburg Education Association and Lampeter-Strasburg School District have reached a three-year agreement, more than a year before the current contract expires.The education association ratified the agreement April 28, Superintendent Robert Frick said. The school board approved t......
2008-05-07 00:11:00
LAURA KNOWLES
The Warwick school board Tuesday approved a fact-finder's report that forms the basis for a new four-year teachers' contract.Nearly 40 district teachers gathered outside the district office cheered when they learned the outcome of the vote. The teachers have been without a contract......
2008-05-06 01:07:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police charged a Mount Joy woman Monday with stealing $472 in fundraiser money meant for an Elizabethtown elementary school.Jennifer M. Sheaffer, 36, allegedly sold hundreds of tickets for barbecue chicken dinners but failed to turn in all the proceeds, police said.Members of a pare......
2008-05-06 00:47:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Warwick school board is scheduled to vote tonight on a new contract for the district's 272 teachers, who have been working 10 months without an agreement.The board will meet at 7 p.m. in the district administration office, 301 W. Orange St., Lititz.Warwick teachers over the week......
2008-04-14 11:39:00
LEANNA LANDSMAN
Q. My daughter, who will graduate college in May, informed us that she has applied to Teach For America because she wants to "give back." She likes working with kids, but after an Ivy League education, we think she should earn some real money and "give back" later. What can we do to help her......
2008-04-11 12:19:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
He finds them food and clothing if they need it. If they need someone to listen, he does. He's there for them — at school, after school, on weekends and over the summer. For students in Donegal School District's alternative program, STRUCTURE, Lewis Gentry is more than a teac......
2008-03-24 10:25:00
DIANE BITTING
The word "carnival" conjures up thoughts of rides, games and food, and a place for community residents to mix and mingle. The PTO at Elizabethtown's Mill Road Elementary School has taken the "car" in "carnival" and created an event featuring just that: cars ......
2008-03-21 10:30:00
DIANE BITTING
What do you get when you combine guitar riffs with grammar lessons? A room full of singing, clapping — and at times screaming — elementary students at a concert by The Grammarheads. Get ready. This band might be coming to an elementary school near you. That is, if these four......
2008-03-20 09:32:00
LAURA KNOWLES
There's a neatly folded flag at Lititz Elementary School that traveled a long way. Just a few months ago, the American flag flew above the barracks of the Delta Unit of the 5-158th General Support Aviation Battalion at Logistics Support Area Anaconda of the U.S. Army in Iraq. The flag ......
2008-02-04 11:13:00
Mary Beth Schweigert
Melissa Readman doesn't teach young children for the less-than-lucrative paycheck, the lack of health insurance or the nonexistent retirement plan. And definitely not for the cold pizza she devours in a darkened classroom when nap time finally rolls around. "It is not a high-pa......
2008-02-03 00:23:00
GIL SMART
For Warwick High School band director Todd Sheerer, it was time to face the music. Arrested after police said they found him, pants unzipped, in the back of his SUV with a 17-year-old student, Sheerer was arraigned last week on six counts of corruption of minors. If convicted on all six counts,......
2008-01-19 12:35:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Janette Hewitt became the principal of Washington Elementary School 15 years ago. Soon after, Hewitt was shown construction plans that would get rid of the temporary classrooms, replacing the trailers with a two-story classroom addition and a library. Hewitt was thrilled. Bring it on,......
2008-01-18 01:42:00
BRIAN WALLACE
The state Board of Education Thursday approved regulations that would require all high school students to pass six tests in English, math, science and social studies before they could earn a diploma.State officials say the graduation competency assessments are necessary to ensure that stud......
2008-01-16 00:30:00
TOM KNAPP
Months of negotiations concluded Tuesday in School District of Lancaster with the school board's unanimous approval of a new, four-year teachers contract."I appreciate everyone's diligent work, and we thank the teachers very much," board president Patrick Snyder said afte......
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......
2008-01-10 12:23:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Five months before the contract was scheduled to end, the Penn Manor School District and its teachers union have come to a new agreement. The school board approved a three-year extension Monday to the teachers' contract, which was approved by the 323-member Penn Manor Education Association ......
2007-12-20 12:02:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Less than half of the teachers who try this challenging national assessment pass. It's not required and not common in this state. The process is "brutal" and can take up to three years to achieve. Many teachers don't attempt to earn national board certification — a ......
2007-12-03 00:25:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Finding an experienced, highly qualified teacher can be a time-consuming task.For example, a school district may want to hire a high school science teacher who majored in chemistry, minored in biology and is certified to teach both subjects.The ideal candidate would have a college g......
2007-11-17 12:08:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
The state has revised what new teachers will need to learn and do before leading their first classrooms. But some local educators worry the changes to teacher certifications could hurt recruiting efforts, students and cost taxpayers more. The goal of the revisions is to demand specialized ......
2007-11-16 11:15:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Teachers who work for Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 have a new contract. It gives them a raise, but in return, they will pay more for health-care coverage, said Flip Steinour, IU director of human resources. The IU 13 board voted unanimously to approve it Wednesday night. ......
2007-11-13 00:52:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Students and teachers at Hempfield High School are mourning the death of science teacher Jeffrey Way, who died Sunday.Way, 42, of Landisville had been teaching science at the high school for the past 20 years. Surviving are his wife, Gail, and twin daughters, Melissa and Sarah, who are fre......
2007-11-11 00:12:00
MARTY CRISP
Stan Deen is a star. Not in Hollywood, where he tried to "break in" back in the 1960s. Deen studied at the Pasedena Playhouse, but his only film work was back home in Lancaster County, in "Hazel's People." "He was up for the part of TV's Dr. Kildare," ......
2007-11-07 00:15:00
BRIAN WALLACE
The company hired to help find a new superintendent for School District of Lancaster wants to know what qualities community members and school employees want in their new leader.Representatives of the executive search firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates will meet Monday with school ......
2007-11-03 12:18:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Fluorescent lights cast a green and amber glow on the 75-year-old gym at Washington Elementary School. As children run laps, their voices erupt into a cacophony of whoops and hollers. The noise reaches the likes of a rock concert (well, not really, but it seems awfully loud). Through it al......
2007-10-31 11:58:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
A Penn Manor High School teacher recently used music as a catalyst for critical thinking in her American history class. But her use of music is nowhere near the likes of "Schoolhouse Rock!" or "The Alphabet Song." "This is more profound thinking," Lara Paparo ......
2007-10-11 11:38:00
TOM MURSE
In a rare move, Ephrata police have charged a 13-year-old boy with a felony count of aggravated assault after he allegedly injured an IU-13 teacher last week at a center for teen boys with behavioral issues. The teen, a patient at SummitQuest Academy in Ephrata, grabbed a 27-year-old female ......
2007-09-20 11:08:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
The School District of Lancaster may have to trim activities in the after-school programs at six schools. The district only received $678,333 in grant money from the state to operate its after-school programs at 11 schools for the 2007-08 school year compared to $1.45 mill......
2007-09-18 11:13:00
CINDY STAUFFER
When the school bell rang, they practiced their penmanship, learned geography, went to recess and drank from the water crock. They ate peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and apples from their lunch pails. One student even had to spend time on the dunce stool. It was back-to-school Mon......
2007-09-18 01:32:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Some Manheim Township parents are upset about a recent school district decision that has kept a furry, four-legged friend from roaming the halls of Schaeffer Elementary School this year.Little Bear, a Shih Tzu-poodle mix owned by principal Anthony Aldinger, had been coming to the school ev......
2007-09-18 00:02:00
CHELSEA SHOVER and LINDA ESPENSHADE
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......
2007-09-17 11:46:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Being a freelance musician is a tough gig. There's never any guarantee that you'll be working tomorrow. The pay is usually pretty lousy. The hours can be long and inconvenient. Forget about a pension plan or health insurance. No sick days, no paid vacations. And with the ......
2007-09-13 11:29:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Seven public high schools in Lancaster County have improved their SAT scores from 2006. Nine have not. But overall, the average combined SAT score for the county's 16 public high schools remained flat — from the Class of 2006 to the Class of 2007. In 2006, the combined count......
2007-09-04 11:40:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
As students returned for a new year at Manheim Township High School this morning, they passed backhoes and dump trucks and men in hard hats in the parking lots. Buses kicked dust into the air from the ongoing construction of the nearly $83 million high school renovation/expansion project....
2007-08-30 11:19:00
MEAGAN INGERSON
Summer ended this morning for students in School District of Lancaster, when the district's two high schools, four middle schools and 13 elementary schools opened their doors for the new school year. The first hours of opening day went well, Acting Superintendent Stephen Iovino said, withou......
2007-08-28 11:27:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
It was 7:15 a.m. on the first day of school in the Hempfield School District. Students filed off buses and filled the lobby of the newly renovated Centerville Middle School. Many of the eighth-graders stopped and said things such as, "Wow, we've got a floor!" as they gazed at t......
2007-08-27 11:26:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
There were several times during the night when Carol Kelsall glanced over at the alarm clock to see whether or not it was time to get up yet. "Because whether it's your first time or your 28th, it's always an exciting day to come in to school," she said just after 7 this morni......
2007-08-16 11:05:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
How do educators pick the books students read? And what are the benefits to corporate naming rights for school facilities? Expect these presentations and more at tonight's 7:30 Manheim Township School Board meeting in the district office. After a controversy last school year over tw......
2007-07-22 00:04:00
PAULA WOLF
Growing up, Daphna Ben-Chaim wanted to be a U.S. senator, a mathematician or an airline stewardess. Instead, she ended up as an educator, a career choice she doesn't regret for a second. Now with more than 30 years in that field, during which she taught overseas for a time, she is acti......
2007-07-19 11:16:00
JOAN DECKER
High school students in the Governor's School for Teachers discovered that the outdoor environment — filled with gnomes — is a powerful teaching tool. These 64 students, who will begin their senior year this fall and are interested in the teaching profession, visited Gnome Count......
2007-07-18 11:15:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
When first-grade teacher Bonnie Gambler heard about a contest to win a wireless lab, she thought, "Well, why not enter?" I mean, c'mon, her last name is Gambler. And the grand prize is a doozie: a $50,000 wireless computer lab for her school, Central Manor Elementary in th......
2007-07-18 00:18:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Conestoga Valley school board unanimously rejected a charter-school application for the former Penn Johns School Monday night because it said the petition lacked details and was missing pertinent information.However, proponents of the charter school said they are already revising the appli......
2007-07-05 00:51:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Fulton Elementary School has an expansive and ornate auditorium that can hold 700 people.For more years than students and staff care to remember, the auditorium's sound quality has never lived up to the impressive surroundings.Sound reproduction was poor, and people in the rear ofte......
2007-07-03 12:42:00
PAUL FRANZ
The 25,000 students taking summer classes at the 14 state-owned universities can now rest easy. An agreement was reached Monday night between the State System of Higher Education and the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties even as the possibility of a walkout b......
2007-07-01 00:01:00
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ
A 1900 photo caption from the San Diego Union newspaper described that city's La Jolla neighborhood as the "finest seaside resort on the American Continent, having all that the heart can wish to amuse one's self." A fair assessment, according to Carrie Pyfer. Pyfer, a 28-......
2007-06-27 00:54:00
BRIAN WALLACE
The state House Education Committee today is scheduled to consider a package of bills that could help rural and urban school districts attract and retain teachers.The five bills, all co-sponsored by state Rep. Mike Sturla, a Lancaster city Democrat, could benefit School District of Lancast......
2007-06-26 12:40:00
JEFFREY REINHART
Vernon Rice, who guided Lancaster Mennonite's boys' and girls' soccer programs to a combined 783 victories, is retiring after prowling the Blazers' sideline for 35 years. "We really appreciate Vernon's service as a coach and as a teacher," Mennonite principal Miles......
2007-06-24 00:06:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
Col. Henry Gariepy and his wife, Marjorie, were just two of 8,000 Salvationists sitting at the Giant Center in Hershey earlier this month. Until the international head of the Salvation Army, Gen. Shaw Clifton, called the couple to the stage. There the London-based Clifton presented Gariepy......
2007-06-20 01:02:00
BRIAN WALLACE
School District of Lancaster teachers overwhelmingly rejected a one-year contract extension that would have raised their pay by an average of more than 4 percent next year.The teachers voted against the extension by a 2-to-1 margin June 5, said a McCaskey High School teacher who requested ......
2007-06-17 00:03:00
KEVIN SMILEY
Apples are good for you, but for Mary Scaccia, this one is especially delicious. Scaccia, who teaches second grade, was among seven Catholic school teachers who won the Golden Apple Award at a ceremony held last month at the Cardinal Keeler Center in Harrisburg. She has been teaching for 1......
2007-06-10 00:02:00
MEGAN HART
Most people in their 50s wouldn't think of going back to school. For Kevin Ahern, 53, of Elizabethtown, however, school is just where he wants to be. The former elementary school teacher now works as therapeutic staff support aide, or a TSS, in a special education classroom at East Pet......
2007-06-06 14:08:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Timothy J. Quinn loves his career in education. And, it is obvious when speaking with him, how eager he is to become the new superintendent of Elizabethtown School District. "I think I'm a pretty passionate and energetic person," Quinn said. "And, I see a community that is ex......
2007-05-18 03:02:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Schaeffer Elementary School teacher Joey Rider won't be at school today, but she has a pretty good excuse — an appointment with the president of the United States.Rider is scheduled to meet President Bush to be recognized as one of 93 educators to earn a 2006 Presidential Award f......
2007-05-18 02:42:00
JEFF HAWKES
Meet Joy Lapp, Head Start teacher, crime fighter.She doesn't wear a badge or pack heat. She teaches letters and numbers to 3- and 4-year-olds at Francine Bunch Center on Pershing Avenue.Lapp gets kids from low-income homes ready for kindergarten, important work that, research shows,......
2007-05-10 01:55:00
Brian Wallace
Two incumbents, a former school board member and six newcomers are vying for five open seats on the nine-member School District of Lancaster board.Seven Democrats and two Republicans are running in the May 15 primary, and most of them have cross-filed to appear on both parties' ballots......
2007-05-09 12:29:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Three teachers from Lancaster County are among the 12 state winners of the Teacher of the Year honor from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The honorees are: Audra Martin, of Brecknock Elementary School, Cocalico School District; Carrie Wilson, Rohrerstown Elementary School, Hempfield School District; and M......
2007-05-08 13:52:00
JOAN KERN
Faculty and coaches at Millersville University and 13 other state-owned universities may go on strike in July. Members of the Association of Pennsylvania State College & University Faculties voted overwhelming on April 24 in favor of a strike authorization. The vote itself is not unusu......
2007-05-06 00:06:00
CRIS FOEHLINGER
Amy Singley sat on the stage at the Lancaster Jewish Community Center with a little buddy recently and listened to other children singing cowboy songs. At that moment, Singley's buddy didn't want to participate and needed one-on-one comfort. The two sat and rocked back and forth to......
2007-04-29 00:01:00
PATRICIA POIST
Many people have had at least one teacher in their lives who made all the difference in their outlook about learning. I was blessed with two. And for a kid whose family life fell apart at a very young age, and who had tenuous confidence and lack of direction, they were lifelines. I so......
2007-04-25 13:33:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Marion Fuhrman says she "loves children," but as a teacher for many years, she was always pretty strict when in charge of a classroom. "Most of my students liked the fact that I was strict ... they appreciated that, and I think they knew it was for their own good," she recal......
2007-04-24 02:02:00
Madelyn Pennino
After 50 years of educating Amish and Old Order Mennonite students at Penn Johns School, the Conestoga Valley School Board voted Monday night to close the school in June.A group of Penn Johns parents, however, are hopeful the school might still have a future.During a crowded school ......
2007-04-18 14:07:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
At least three school districts in Lancaster County are negotiating teacher contracts. School District of Lancaster's three-year contract and Manheim Central's five-year contract expire June 30. And Penn Manor's contract doesn't expire until June 30, 2008, but negotiations have begun, dist......
2007-04-11 13:54:00
Staff report
Gregg McGough likes to use rap lyrics and episodes of "The Simpsons" and "The Twilight Zone" to teach his students literary conventions and poetry terms. Debra Strickler gives her students a temperament test to help them understand the role personality plays in resolving conflicts. The......
2007-04-11 00:50:00
Brian Wallace
Gregg McGough likes to use rap lyrics and episodes of "The Simpsons" and "The Twilight Zone" to teach his students literary conventions and poetry terms.Debra Strickler gives her students a temperament test to help them understand the role personality plays in resolving......
2007-04-11 00:45:00
Madelyn Pennino
Longtime local educator Brenda Becker was appointed as the new superintendent for the Hempfield School District at a school board meeting Tuesday night.Becker, 54, will replace Superintendent David Poore, who is retiring after 37 years as an educator. Poore has been Hempfield's superin......
2007-04-10 01:24:00
Madelyn Pennino
Though the Conestoga Valley school board isn't scheduled to vote on the fate of Penn Johns Elementary School until later this month, it will review the possibility of closing it at its meeting tonight.•••The Conestoga Valley school board will r......
2007-03-24 00:53:00
Madelyn Pennino
What most surprised Millersville University professor Bill Himmele on his recent trip to Chile is the lengths children there will go to — even riding a horse bareback for miles — to get to school."It was amazing to see what these kids would go through to get an education,&......
2007-03-03 01:37:00
Madelyn Pennino
It takes brains and brawn to be an outstanding athlete.That was the message from Hempfield High School athletes who read to students at East Petersburg Elementary School Friday to mark the 10th annual Read Across America Day.Teacher Karen Brady and reading specialist Chris Rishell o......
2007-02-24 12:10:00
Joan Kern
Music teacher Brad Schoener — the husband of Lancaster County native and New Holland Elementary School band director Jennifer Schoener — has barely skipped a beat since he was diagnosed with a rare and often deadly cancer in early 2004. Despite two major and three minor surgeries an......
2007-02-23 03:26:00
Brett Hambright
An Amish teacher was struck and killed by a pickup truck Thursday morning as she walked to school along a road in Upper Leacock Township, investigators said.Leah L. King, 28, of 202 Snakehill Road, Bird-in-Hand, was hit about 7:20 a.m. in the 100 block of Snakehill Road, according to East ......
2007-02-01 13:37:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A threatened school shooting did not happen but it unleashed anger and frustration in the Eastern Lancaster County School District. Under fire for not informing parents about the threat last month, the district's superintendent, Saundra Hoover, has planned a meeting with parents to talk ......
2007-02-01 13:30:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
It's 12:15 and a class of eighth-graders takes the court in Garden Spot Middle School for a rousing game of team handball. Physical education teacher Alan Houck blows his whistle and shouts, "Let's go! Play it out!" At first glance, Houck seems like the gym teacher you ha......
2007-01-26 13:23:00
JOAN KERN
Robert Moses is as passionate about algebra today as he was about voter registration drives in Mississippi in the 1960s. The former field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Moses — born in Harlem and educated at Harvard University — is the founder and pres......
2007-01-25 16:18:00
Michael C. Upton
Published Jan. 25, 2007: Warwick School Board Tuesday, Jan. 16 officially proposed a one percent increase in the earned income tax for district residents. The issue will eventually go to voters in May in the form of a referendum question. “(The increase will) ......
2007-01-24 14:30:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Two more school district superintendents have announced their intentions to retire at the end of this school year, bringing the total in the county to four. Elizabethtown Superintendent Allan Thrush announced his retirement at the Jan. 16 board meeting, and Solanco’s Jon Rednak announced ......
2007-01-17 14:38:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Jay Burkholder loved to play “dogs and rabbits,” a game of tag, as a boy at Penn Johns Elementary School. “That would last quite awhile,” he said. Tuesday night, the now grown Burkholder implored the Conestoga Valley school board not to close the school he attend......
2007-01-04 17:16:42
Robyn Meadows
One year ago, the state created the program as a way to assist struggling school districts. Educators such as Iovino travel to schools in need. Some drive long distances. Iovino works with a team at the School District of Lancaster. He pours over the data from assessment tests and recommends s......
2006-12-30 23:36:25
Helen Colwell Adams
Then came Oct. 2, and all the other stories of 2006 faded into insignificance.
What happened in that one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines on that lovely Monday defined 2006 in Lancaster County. We’ll remember this year as the year Charlie Roberts shot those 10 schoolgirls, as we rem...
2006-12-21 14:55:11
Tom Murse
The small, one-story brick building was — and still is — the last remaining public school attended by Plain children in grades one through eight across Pennsylvania’s 501 districts. “We weren’t operating a parochial school,” says Breniser, who retired in late 2004. “It was Conestoga Valley teache......
2006-12-20 14:48:24
Janet Kelley
Michael Allen Wolf, 36, was convicted following a trial in August of two counts each of aggravated indecent assault and corrupting a minor, plus three counts each of indecent assault and endangering the welfare of children. The jury acquitted Wolf of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. The......
2006-12-16 23:34:27
Patricia Poist
“I had trouble with authority; I was your typical bad boy,” admitted 19-year-old Michael T. Nguyen of Donegal Township.
That was two years ago when Nguyen dropped out of Donegal High School where he was repeating the 10th grade.
“I was doing nothing,” he said. “A lot of people ...
2006-12-12 00:06:43
Jeff Hawkes
In the early ’70s their money was spent to teach me to solve quadratic equations.
I was in high school and applied myself to the calculations because I wanted to go to college, not because I thought it useful.
Turns out I was right. I’ve done many things since high school, none involvi...
2006-12-07 11:14:53
Heidi Eilenberger
Hauck’s resume consists of 5,500 flight hours, 436 of which are in space. Hauck also boasts three trips into space. His first, in 1983 aboard The Challenger, carried the first five-person crew. The second, was aboard The Discovery, which in 1984 was the first in history to complete a space salvage w...
2006-12-01 11:25:04
Marianne Heckles
You may be thinking of Little Orphan Annie or Oliver right now, or some cold governmental institution lacking heat, decent lighting and edible food. If your ancestor was an orphan, you may also be wondering if he or she was cared for under such conditions. From Colonial times to the early 20th ce......
2006-11-29 14:40:03
Robyn Meadows
That’s just one example how the federal No Child Left Behind law has negatively impacted schools, Lancaster County teachers said. While teachers overwhelmingly said that they like that the law has held them accountable for how they educate children, they worry it has also caused students to miss ......
2006-11-29 14:28:59
David O'connor And Robyn Meadows
The three-year pact between the district and the 248 members of its professional staff was unanimously adopted at the school board's meeting Nov. 20. Under the new pact, the starting salary for a teacher will go from $36,909 for 2006-07 to $37,627 in 2007-08 and $38,345 in 2008-09, according to K......
2006-11-16 00:57:22
Colby Itkowitz
If an intruder were to break into the school, each teacher would lock his or her classroom door and slip the paper into the hallway, signaling that the students are not in danger.
Law enforcement officials would then know which classrooms or hallways were safe to evacuate.
Rosolie borr...
2006-11-14 01:27:50
Colby Itkowitz
The 19-year-old sat at a computer around 2 p.m. and started answering the multiple-choice questions on the screen.
She needed to score at least 70 percent to pass.
Twenty minutes later, Phoenix Academy’s principal, Tom Haley, announced over the loudspeaker: “Arpasia Bridgman has gradua...
2006-11-13 13:45:42
Tim Mekeel
Heacock, head teacher of family and consumer science, was told that she wouldn’t need space to teach sewing in a decade or so. Interest in sewing would fizzle out by then, the project’s planners confidently predicted. But when that distant day finally arrived, it turned out that the planners d......
2006-11-10 01:45:31
Madelyn Pennino
Justin, a Conestoga Valley High School freshman in the alternative-education program, is just learning to navigate Blended Schools — a statewide nonprofit organization that provides its member school districts with computer software and computer-centered lesson plans to combine with in-class l...
2006-11-10 01:16:38
Carla Di Fonzo
The same can be said of Paris today, as many local artists would be happy to tell you.
“Paris has been a constant source of inspiration for me,” said artist Freiman Stoltzfus, co-founder of Gallery 2 (Deux Amis) on North Prince Street. “I visited the city once, then I fell in love. Now you ca...
2006-11-09 00:47:32
Colby Itkowitz
They compared notes, shared lesson plans and analyzed data for math, English, science and social studies.
After three days of discussions, the teachers compiled an “aligned curriculum,” a sort of teaching blueprint that all local schools could follow.
Organized by Lancaster-Lebanon Int...
2006-11-08 00:44:36
Susan E. Lindt
The newest surgeon at Lancaster Regional Medical Center is ready to make his mark in the College Avenue hospital’s cardiothoracic program.
He’s already made his mark serving in the Middle East.
“It’s sort of like M.A.S.H. — you sit around and wait, then you get busy, then you sit...
2006-11-06 14:12:09
Dave Pidgeon
About 50 Democrats gathered at party headquarters in Lancaster city, and many talked about convincing disgruntled GOP voters to come to their side.
"They will see the Republican Party has lost its way," state Senate candidate Jason Leisey said. "I can't win unless I have Republican crosso...
2006-11-04 13:10:46
Robyn Meadows
And, it’s 100,000-square-feet big. The IU 13 is an umbrella organization that oversees services such as special education and technology to school districts in Lancaster and Lebanon counties. The organization previously had three locations in the county: 1110 Enterprise Road in East Petersburg......
2006-11-02 14:00:19
Robyn Meadows
How should they prepare for, prevent, cope and deal with the aftermath of a school tragedy such as the Oct. 2 shooting at the West Nickel Mines School in Bart Township? To learn strategies for addressing new professional challenges, about 40 educators from Lancaster, Berks and Chester counties ga......
2006-11-01 14:16:57
Robyn Meadows
Pick a letter using a computer mouse to complete a word chunk such as “ight” and form “light.” If you get it right, Cassie gives you a thumbs up sign. If it’s wrong, she closes her eyes and shakes her head no. The computer game is one of three created by Penn Manor High School senior Rob Drumm......
2006-10-28 23:28:54
Gil Smart
Perhaps Amish schoolhouses should have some sort of direct link with the police.
But after considering the issue, the Amish Safety Committee opted, instead, for a lower-tech approach. While committee member Paul Stoltzfus said there was considerable pressure from within — and from without...
2006-10-27 13:59:16
Ryan Robinson
The Adamstown car dealer was at a town meeting last year listening to Republican state Rep. Tom Creighton explain his vote for the legislative pay raise. Infuriated, the Democrat says, he decided right then to run against Creighton in the 37th state House district. The two face off in the Nov. 7 ......
2006-10-25 10:12:55
Kimberly Marselas
When he heard about President George Bush’s plans to hold a conference on the heels of the Amish schoolhouse shooting, Terry contacted the federal Department of Education and asked for an invitation. He said he wanted to be sure his school’s Crisis Response Team was working along the same lines as o...
2006-10-19 11:18:38
This event is new, but already seems to be promising in raising funds for the Lititz Elementary PTO.
In the past, the school has participated in organizing, selling and distributing goods from various companies, only to get a portion of the proceeds. This year, the PTO decided to try a fund-r...
2006-10-19 10:35:24
10 Years Ago
Thursday’s Record Express October 17, 1996
• Dangerous Intersection - A Lititz teenager was fortunate to avoid serious injury after a Sunday collision at one of Elizabeth Township’s most dangerous intersections. Vehicle accidents seem to be a monthly routine at B......
2006-10-18 01:50:42
Colby Itkowitz
The mayor attended Tuesday’s board meeting to discuss gun crimes in light of last week’s alleged sighting of a gunman outside Price Elementary School.
A student said he saw a man with a gun near Lancaster Recreation Commission before school Oct. 10. Price Elementary went into immediate lockdo...
2006-10-17 14:13:21
Robyn Meadows
First came reading and then writing. This year, the district launched a single way of teaching science, physical education and math for middle and high schools. The district already has a consistent math program for elementary schools. Tonight, the school board will vote on two contracts th......
2006-10-16 14:01:00
Robyn Meadows
She’s obtained the status of highly qualified teacher, a requirement of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. By the end of this school year, every public school in the state must have highly qualified teachers. But what exactly does “highly qualified” mean? In Pennsylvania, to become highl......
2006-10-14 00:06:03
Lori Van Ingen
Edward “Ted” Davis, professor of the history and philosophy of science and director of the Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science at Messiah College, lectured to close to 100 people on “Intelligent Design on Trial” Thursday evening at Franklin & Marshall College.
Because Messiah ...
2006-10-13 14:31:43
Robyn Meadows
Also, students reported seeing a man with a gun Tuesday morning near Price Elementary School. And, a 13-year-old boy allegedly fired plastic pellets from a toy gun two weeks ago at three female students at Wheatland Middle School, police said. With the recent outbreak of school violence nation......
2006-10-11 14:29:28
Janet Kelley
So, what better way to tell them about “Operation Safe Surf’’ than through the Internet and television? This morning, Corbett launched his department’s new educational phase of Internet safety — by speaking to students from Harrisburg while schools around the state tuned into his speech on televi......
2006-10-03 12:17:26
Jack Brubaker
— John Hostetler, “Amish Society.’’
Each of the 150 Old Order Amish schools in Lancaster County contains one room, 30 feet wide by 34 feet long. The room hosts between 25 and 35 desks for pupils in grades 1-8. One unmarried female teacher and several young aides preside. Every sc......
2006-10-03 02:22:59
Jeff Hawkes
"I think the community will understand it as an aberration, a crime committed by a man with a severe psychiatric disorder," said Donald B. Kraybill, an author of scholarly books about the Amish and a senior professor at Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.
...
2006-09-29 01:17:36
Jeff Hawkes
Here’s just one example of my impatience: I can hardly bear long-winded people.
There. I’m out with it.
I try to be nice. I try to be sensitive when someone comes to me with a concern. But, please, just get to the point. If you don’t wear me down with verbosity, I find it’s a lot easie...
2006-09-27 01:26:48
Colby Itkowitz
In addition to taking regular classes, filling out college applications and taking part in extracurriculars, the McCaskey East High School senior is enrolled in an early childhood education course at Harrisburg Area Community College's Lancaster campus.
About 40 McCaskey students are enrolled...
2006-09-25 08:57:29
Madelyn Pennino
Sunday's dedication ceremony and open house marked the end of a two-year renovation.
Dorothy Hillegrass, a retired librarian and 1944 graduate of Upper Leacock High School, called improvements to the school "very good."
"The children are very lucky to have this compared to what I h...
2006-09-23 23:32:26
Maria Coole
She wasn’t planning to go to college. She thought she’d earn a childhood development associate certificate and work in a day-care center.
But after being a student at the Lancaster County Career & Technology Center at 432 Old Market St. in Mount Joy, Elmer has decided to go on...
2006-09-23 23:15:59
Marty Crisp
Professor Henry Higgins (Apple regular Paul Gregory Nelson) stumbles across Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Jennifer Davis-Johnson) in Covent Garden one night and makes a bet with fellow linguist Colonel Pickering (John Weigand) that he can turn her into a lady by erasing her lower-class accent...
2006-09-21 13:41:50
Robyn Meadows
Soon most of the English, math, science and social studies teachers in Warwick High School will use SmartBoards. What’s a SmartBoard, you ask? It’s a white board that works as a computer screen. It sits on the wall, but instead of chalk, a teacher’s finger is like a mouse, connecting it wirele......
2006-09-21 11:19:53
10 Years Ago
Thursday’s Record Express September 19, 1996
• New Lititz Library - Add a decade of planning, a dozen proposed locations and lots of fund-raising, and you’ve got the equation for a new public library.
Of course, nothing is final until Warwick Township officials a......
2006-09-20 13:51:14
Robyn Meadows
The Rev. Robert O. Bailey urged school officials to stop the friction and work on solutions. “...We are fearful that these disputes can harm the welfare of our children,” said Bailey, president of the Lancaster branch of the NAACP. But the conflict is not over. The school board did not make an......
2006-09-20 00:56:25
Madelyn Pennino
Henderson spoke on behalf of Rendell to about 20 F&M students who turned out in the Buchanan Room of Steinman College Center.
During the speech, Henderson told students education is linked to economics. She said the cost of funding public education now is falling more frequently on state and ...
2006-09-14 13:22:10
Robyn Meadows
Negotiations between the district and the Eastern Lancaster County Education Association were to resume at 4 today at the district office. A mediator from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Mediation has been called in to act as a neutral party to the discussions. “We have made substantial progress in......
2006-09-13 10:46:20
“I was at work that day at D&E when we saw it. We got a call from a co-workers daughter. We finished out the day but it was just unbelievable.” Margie Burkins, Denver
“I was on an ambulance call with Ken Carpenter (Reamstown Fire Company vice president). We were taking a patient into the hosp...
2006-09-13 09:39:11
*** West Main Street residents file complaints against boro for alleged negligence involving the storm water sewage. *** Beantown players walk Ephrata Middle School boards. It is with great pleasure that the EMS will be hosting two assemblies to see Boston Chamber Theatre Productions’ perfo......
2006-09-07 14:49:03
10 Years Ago
Thursday’s Record Express September 5, 1996 • Benjamin’s Oregon Adventure - Hiking up a 70-degree slope, shovel in hand. Visibility often 10 feet or less. Choking on smoke, dirt and dust for up to 14 hours a day. Then it’s back to camp to clean the black snot from your nose......
2006-09-02 00:50:44
Carla Di Fonzo
School District of Lancaster’s decision to sever ties with Community Action Program of Lancaster County will not endanger services offered to children from low-income families, the district said in a statement Friday.
In addition to terminating its contracts with CAP, SDL is asking CAP to ret...
2006-09-01 14:34:44
Robyn Meadows
And, you can’t charge for more hours than are listed on the time sheets. These are among the poor billing practices the School District of Lancaster alleges in a lawsuit it filed this week against the Community Action Program of Lancaster County. The $87,000 in bills are for extra training tha......
2006-09-01 01:24:56
Colby Itkowitz
The district also is asking CAP to return a $25,000 grant it gave the organization last year and is refusing to pay an additional $25,000 promised for the coming school year.
That money is tied to a federal grant of $521,630 CAP stands to lose if it can’t get the $25,000 from another source....
2006-08-31 13:50:46
Robyn Meadows
Usually the radio keeps the 33-year-old company until the children arrive, but not today, the first day of school. Guzman, who has the 6 to 2 custodian shift, walks the halls of Martin, the Lancaster school that sits at the intersection of Wabank and Millersville roads. He flips on lights and unl......
2006-08-31 13:31:13
Robyn Meadows
“As I was watching them walking down the streets, I could see the kids smiling,” Barry Clippinger says. “Even the high school kids were coming a little earlier than I anticipated, walking up the hill.”
It was a good omen for the first day of school at Columbia, where all three schools opened ...
2006-08-31 00:19:33
Colby Itkowitz
"They are both scary, just different types," the newly-minted Solanco teacher said Monday, facing his own class for the first time.
"When you're actually in a classroom and it's your own, it makes you a little nervous. But it's not imminent danger."
At just 24, McMullen has done someth...
2006-08-30 10:25:24
Jennifer Todd
Worley, who spent several years in the Ephrata school district prior to joining Cocalico, retired at the conclusion of the 2005/06 school year. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Bruce Sensenig assumed the post July 1.
It would be more than fair to say that Worley has covered many bases during his ...
2006-08-28 14:52:50
Cindy Stauffer And Joan Kern
The timeless ritual of the first day of school took place today in 10 districts around the county, as kids streamed in on buses, in cars and on foot to start a new year. Outside one Ephrata elementary school, eager early birds gathered on the sidewalk waiting for the bell to ring to kick off the ......
2006-08-28 14:51:23
Robyn Meadows
The 42-year old West Lampeter Township resident lay in bed with a smile on her face thinking, “This is my first, first day as a teacher.” The new math teacher arrived at Manheim Township Middle School by 6:20, fresh-faced and eyes brimming with excitement. Manheim Township is one of 10 districts ......
2006-08-28 11:22:14
Catherine S. Molitoris
Your child is ready for school, but are you? Parents play an important role in their child’s success in school. If you’d like your child to have the best year possible, follow these tips from local teachers. IT'S ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR In elementary school, parents are the most influential fac......
2006-08-28 07:53:00
Colby Itkowitz
Summer's unofficial end for students, parents and teachers is marked by the first significant rainfall in more than a month, Accuweather meteorologist Bob Larson said.
In August, Lancaster County only accumulated a quarter inch of rain. There's typically about 2#-R inches by this late in the ...
2006-08-26 23:39:14
Helen Colwell Adams
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Seventh grader Ashlee Clonts would seem to be doing well in school.
Her PSSA test results in math and reading have hit the “advanced” range in the last three school years.
But a new measurement projects that while Ashlee is certain to score at the “proficient” ...
2006-08-26 13:30:46
Rebecca C. Carroll
Whiteley, 17, a rising senior at Manheim Township High School, has been riding horses for nine years. “The personalities of the horses are so different,” Whiteley said. “No two are the same.” She began taking lessons at Willow Bend Stable, New Cumberland. She now keeps her quarter horse, Skips......
2006-08-25 13:51:10
Robyn Meadows
For Bruce Sensenig at Cocalico, Barry Clippinger at Columbia, Patrick Hallock at Pequea Valley and John George at Warwick, academic success is their No. 1 priority. It's time to get started. School begins in Cocalico and Pequea Valley on Monday, in Columbia on Thursday, and in Warwick on Wedne......
