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Hempfield Area School District now has a final answer to where students will attend middle school next year, after approving a revised plan for redistricting. The plan defines where students will go to school in the wake of a February vote to condense the district’s three middle schools into two

Fifteen candidates are competing in this spring’s primary for five open seats on the Hempfield Area school board. Candidates said they are running for office for myriad reasons, including concerns over the ongoing high school expansion project, debate over appropriateness of library books and materials and a desire for more

Parents of Hempfield Area middle school students will have to wait a little longer to get concrete answers on where their students will attend classes next year, as the school board postponed its vote this week on an updated redistricting plan until May 8. Under the first proposal approved in

The Hempfield Area School Board voted Tuesday to consolidate Harrold Middle School.

Despite pleas from parents and a petition that purportedly garnered more than 800 signatures, the plan to consolidate Hempfield’s three middle schools into two was approved Tuesday night. Only one school board director voted against consolidation, which will move all sixth, seventh and eighth grade students into Wendover and West