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Two Palmerton Area School District board members and two local businesses are joining together to help erase delinquent student meal accounts. Directors Earl and Danielle Paules presented a check to t...

Palmerton Area School District’s 2023-24 operating budget, passed unanimously by directors Tuesday night, features a 3.2% property tax increase. The budget calls for $38.96 million in expenses and $38...

Palmerton Area School District’s board of directors seemingly share the thought that a property tax increase is necessary in 2023-24 to keep revenues within striking distance of expenditures, but how ...

Two local school districts received food equipment grants as part of $2.7 million awarded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the state agency announced Wednesday. Palmerton Area School Distr...

The addition of a full-time high school music teacher is among the highlights of Palmerton Area School District’s first 2023-24 budget proposal. Unveiled at a school board workshop Tuesday night, the ...

Whether you’re a transfer student or have been at NIU since your first year, you’ve had to deal with an academic adviser. Michelle Pickett, director of the academic advising center, believes it is great if an adviser has a degree in the field they advise, but it isn’t necessary.  “But I think the importance is...

New technologies and equipment will allow Valley High School students to visit places unreachable in the classroom, while Burrell High School students will use them to create products. New Kensington-Arnold will transform its high school’s planetarium into a Think Tank, while Burrell’s “Bucconomics” program will see seniors undertake an economics-based

Students not part of the federal free and reduced lunch program will have to pay for school lunches again for the first time since March 2020 and districts are starting to announce what those costs wi...

A familiar face is returning to Palmerton Area School District to run its business office. By a 6-3 vote Tuesday, Palmerton’s board of directors hired Ryan Kish as business manager at a starting salar...

Apollo-Ridge School District now has a direct-to-garment printer that will provide students creative and commerce opportunities. Arconic’s foundation and its technology center in Upper Burrell jointly worked on awarding the $25,000 grant to the district. The Pittsburgh-based metals manufacturer awards grants to community and educational efforts in areas where they operate. The grant will allow the district to establish an in-house T-shirt printing business. “All of the school’s clubs and ...