Since the late 1950s, when she graduated from college, Kathy Potier of Lancaster has spent many hours continuing her education.
She has been bolstering her intellectual wellness for decades by taking classes â even ones offered across the country and across the pond.
âIâve always been doing something to learn something new,â Potier, a resident of the Homestead Village retirement community, says. âAlways. I canât imagine why anyone would not want to do that. . Itâs fun.â
For many years, Potier, who turned 85 in January, has taken classes ranging from architecture to womenâs history through Quest for Learning. The program has been offering continuing education to Lancaster County seniors for more than four decades.
Which Pa. schools had the largest number of arrests in 2019-20?
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s annual Safe Schools report for the 2019-20 school year showed a noticeable drop in reported arrests.
Districts are required to submit their misconduct reports, both criminal and academic infractions, to the state every year. Reporting sometimes changes from year-to-year, but no changes were made last school year.
Last year, the top three criminal reasons why students were in trouble statewide were:
Possession, use, or sale of tobacco or vaping 8.34 percent
Fighting 8.14 percent
Minor altercation 5.42 percent
Here’s a list of the schools that had the largest number of arrests, and the crime that was most common at each school.
officially announced the commitment of 10 preferred
walk-on run-on players. Among these signees is Evan Clark, a quarterback from Manheim Township High School in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Clark’s journey to Happy Valley began in a unique way. After being born in Minnesota, he and his family moved around quite a bit due to his father’s job at The Hershey Company.
“I was born in Minnesota, then I moved to Illinois, Arkansas, then I spent a couple of years in China,” Clark said. “Then, I moved over here in fourth grade.”
Even though he spent a lot of his younger years moving around, sports were always a big part of Clark’s life, and he became a three-sport athlete just like his dad.
This is such a difficult time to lose someone: grieving and social distancing just do not work together, wrote the daughters of one victim who died in April.
According to the county s coroner, as of March 26, 2021, some 974 people had died of COVID-19 here since the pandemic took its first local life a year ago, on March 26, 2020.
Many have had their lives recounted on the obituary pages of LNP | LancasterOnline, but only a small number of those tributes have publicly confirmed that their deaths were related to COVID-19.
Here are 85 coronavirus victims whose LNP | LancasterOnline obituaries or other reports publicly cited the disease s role in their deaths. They are but a fraction of the ongoing pandemic s local toll so far.
Sundays, we dedicate a page of our Opinion section to student journalists in high schools and universities. This week, the columns come from students at Manheim Township High School.