The Selinsgrove School District board adopted a $43.5 million final budget for the 2018-2019 school year that will raise real estate taxes by 1.5 mills or 2.3 percent.
DANVILLE — Twenty-three preschoolers graduated Wednesday night from Busy Little Beavers Early Learning Center wearing white caps and gowns and tassles in blue and red.
The Selinsgrove School District board adopted a $43.5 million final budget for the 2018-2019 school year that will raise real estate taxes by 2.3 percent.
DANVILLE — The Danville Area School Board Tuesday night adopted a $40.8 million budget for 2018-2019 that keeps taxes at current levels.
The Selinsgrove Area School Board Monday night awarded a $1.1 million contract to T-Ross Brothers to replace the high school stadium's artificial turf, resurface the track and renovate the stadium.
NEW BERLIN — Campers were building, designing, cutting and cooking Tuesday morning at the SUN Area Technical Institute’s summer camp. In all, 72 campers filled up six classes including culinary arts, woodworking, carpentry, robotics, welding and masonry.
DANVILLE — Danville Area School District officials are adding an additional Spanish teacher to double the number of classes for elementary school students — without increasing the staff size.
MOUNT CARMEL — Mount Carmel Area Junior-Senior High School is like a trunk and its graduating students are like branches, valedictorian Matthew Cimino told the Class of 2018 during commencement Wednesday.
SUNBURY — The Shikellamy High School Class of 2018 met their former teachers and younger students during the district's first senior walk.
MILTON — Justin Ayers plans to go to school to study carpentry then pursue it as a career.
SUNBURY — Shikellamy school directors are saddened to lose their superintendent, but said they hope he may one day return after being granted a two-year sabbatical leave for restoration of health.
Selinsgrove Area School District aims to curb the departure of Middle School students to outside cyber school options by offering its own program.
DANVILLE — The Danville Middle School Sea Perch Club team placed 20th out of 81 teams at an international competition.
LEWISBURG — Happiness is a must if you want to be successful, Valedictorian Alexandra Markunas told the Lewisburg High School graduating class of 2018, at Saturday’s commencement.
NORTHUMBERLAND — Student graduation speeches Thursday at Northumberland Christian School centered on God and family.
SELINSGROVE — Find something to be passionate about in your life, be kind, and try to make the world a better place were some of the key messages expressed by student speakers to the Class of 2018 at Selinsgrove Area High School’s 66th Annual Commencement, held Wednesday night at the Garrett…
It seems fitting that in his last week of High School at Midd-West School District, two cows bred by senior Elijah Feltman and his father, Dale, gave birth to calves.
DANVILLE — Middle school students flew some drones Wednesday afternoon and fixed two that required repairs for broken wires.
SUNBURY — Fifth grade students at Oaklyn Elementary School are rocket scientists.
LEWISBURG — High school seniors Maryssa Erdman, of Shamokin, and Nate Liscum, of Lewisburg, garnered top honors and received $1,000 each in scholarship money as co-winners at the Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards Ceremony late Monday afternoon at the Country Cupboard.
It would have been easy for Nate Liscum to slack off last summer.
Shamokin senior Maryssa Erdman is involved in a lot of things, and Erdman does a lot of those things well.
DANVILLE — The Danville Middle School had its largest number of overall winners this year in the national Spanish exam, according to teacher Krista Roman.
Fresh off Valley Musicals, several area high school theater programs will be heading to Williamsport for the 2018 Ray of Light Awards Ceremony at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Community Arts Center (CAC).
SUNBURY — Three Shikellamy Career Art students recently displayed their art at the annual Senior Art Show in the ‘Gallery’ at the Degenstein Library Community Room.
DANVILLE — Early retirement incentives will help the Danville Area School District save more than $500,000 a year and balance its 2018-2019 budget without a tax increase, Superintendent Jason Bendle said.
MOORESBURG — Liberty Valley Intermediate School fifth-grader Lucy Muccilo reported to the legal station, where she was ordered to go.
DANVILLE — Karma Wise, 7, said her mother told her she was going to cry during a video showing first-graders talking about their mothers.
LEWISBURG — Lewisburg Area School Board directors voted unanimously Thursday to place an unidentified employee on indefinite unpaid leave two days after state police arrested a pre-kindergarten teacher on a child endangerment charge.
DANVILLE — Six-year-old Zachary Styer enjoyed riding around making figure eights on his Spiderman bike.
Two Valley teachers have been selected to join 24 others from 13 states to attend a summer science, engineering and mathematics (STEM) program in Tennessee.
Ben Haines won’t graduate from Mifflinburg High School for another month, but the 18-year-old has already secured a full-time job as a machinist.
WASHINGTONVILLE — Danville Middle School sixth-graders learned if they couldn't lift an all-terrain vehicle, they weren't big enough to ride it.
DANVILLE — The Danville Area High School prom committee chose rustic, simple decorations to match a new venue for the junior-senior prom.
LEWISBURG — A seventh-grade science teacher and a wildlife biologist propose to restore a vacant patch of land into a wetland to create an outdoor education opportunity at the Donald H. Eichhorn Middle School.
LEWISBURG — Lewisburg Area School Board directors expect to vote as early as May 10 on plans to replace damaged concrete floors and walls inside Kelly Elementary caused by pyritic shale swelling below ground.
DANVILLE — Kali Williams said she felt special being chosen to carry a crown of flowers Wednesday in the courtyard of St. Cyril Academy Preschool and Kindergarten.
COOPER TWP. — Five-year-old Bradley Cummings planted corn seeds, which are thriving, and has helped his family plant their garden.
MIFFLINBURG — Prom decorations are ripped down only moments after the Mifflinburg Area High School’s formal ends at 11 p.m.
DANVILLE — Bright colors beckon kids for the new kindergarten program at St. Joseph School.
MILLMONT — Sitting in middle school classes today are the people who will likely form the world’s first crew to Mars. With this in mind, Generation Beyond partnered with Discovery Education and Lockheed Martin for their 2017 video challenge: design the habitation module for astronauts to liv…
Homeschooling parents appreciate spending extra time with their children and monitoring what their kids learn. But they balance that with the acknowledgement that the world beyond their in-home classrooms offers endless educational opportunities for their children.
NEW BERLIN — Fresh from winning both local and statewide awards, the students enrolled in SUN Area Technical Institute's welding class are preparing for a national competition in June — and life after high school.
MOORESBURG — A Liberty Valley Intermediate School K'Nex team, tasked with creating something to use around the home, took the challenge literally, according to Maddie Merrell.
A look into the 'green' initiatives of school districts and higher educational institutions in the Greater Susquehanna Valley.
A four-day work week in the summer, which started in 2011, is one of Milton Area School District ideas that has contributed to their energy savings conservation, according to district officials. In the 2005-06 school year, Milton Area spent $708,488 in electricity usage. In 201617, the distr…
DANVILLE — Seven-year-old Jeremy Collins found earthworms to be "really sticky and wet."
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