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Kristin Dinkel, a first grade teacher at Greensburg Salem’s Nicely Elementary School, jumped from atop a platform 30 feet above the floor of a tall outbuilding, launched herself across a 5-foot gap and used both hands to grab hold of a bar suspended in midair. Before attempting that Leap of

Shelby Frick, at 17, has witnessed doctors performing a rotator cuff surgery and she’s heard about ground-breaking medical research directly from the lips of Nobel laureates. The rising senior at Greensburg Salem High School had those experiences in June while attending a three-day Congress of Future Medical Leaders near Boston.

Those attending Greensburg Salem High School’s annual Culture Day may hear students singing a French chanson or see them dancing a Latin salsa. “Students from the world language classes create cultural acts,” explained Tammy Lyons, a Spanish teacher at the school who chairs its world language department. The students will

Feb. 10 is the final day to vote online for Greensburg Salem High School biology teacher Andrea Redinger, who is in the running for Women in STEM Mentor of the Year honors at Thiel College. Redinger, a 20-year veteran of the Greensburg Salem faculty, is competing against two other instructors

Spiders, snakes, lizards and a llama were among more than two dozen exotic animals that were a highlight of Friday’s school day for a group of fourth graders. The students from Nicely Elementary in Greensburg judged some of the animals they encountered next door at Greensburg Salem High School to

There were 126 vehicles entered in last year’s inaugural car and bike cruise at the Greensburg Volunteer Fire Department’s Hose Company No. 1. “A bunch of our guys have some old cars, so we figured we’d have a cruise and try to raise some money for the fire station,” company

Greensburg officials plan to mill and resurface portions of eight streets this summer, including Pennsylvania Avenue. The work on seven of the streets is to be completed in two phases at a combined cost of $371,406. City council this week approved contracts for both phases with Derry Construction, which submitted

An albino axolotl piqued the curiosity of many a fourth-grader Friday as it rested enigmatically in its tank at Greensburg Salem High School. A type of salamander that originated in Mexico, it was among 20 species of amphibians, reptiles, arachnids, insects, birds, fish and mammals displayed for fourth-graders from adjacent