High Construction announced that it received a $21 million contract for Elizabethtown College’s new Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-Being. The new facility will be located on the college’s campus, off East Cedar Street in Elizabethtown. “After several months of collaboration with the college, CannonDesign, and other project team members during the preconstruction phase, […]
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National Honor Society Gets 60 More EAHS Students
Elizabethtown Area High School inducted 60 students into its T.H. Ebersole Chapter of the National Honor Society at a special ceremony. Membership in the National Honor Society is one of the highest honors that can be awarded to a high school student. It recognizes the outstanding students of Elizabethtown Area High School who have exhibited […]
Read MoreEAHS Students Claim Prizes at National History Day Competition
Students from Elizabethtown Area High School recently took part in the 2018 National History Day regional competition at Kutztown University. High school juniors Ryan Minnich, Sean Brown, and Nat McCloud as well as high school freshmen Benjamin Heinz and Ryan Risser all represented the district at the competition. High School social studies teacher Gerald Huesken […]
Read MoreHigh School Surpasses $85K Goal for Charity
Students at Elizabethtown Area High School set out to raise $85,000 to fight children’s cancer. Mission accomplished — and then some. The 12-hour dance marathon that began Friday, March 16, and continued into the following morning raised $85,717.50 for the kids. The 10th annual Mini-Thon had a superhero theme this year called “Not All Heroes […]
Read MoreMount Joy Township Wants Trees Planted Around Solar Array
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Dan Robrish/The Elizabethtown Advocate
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Mount Joy Township supervisors reached a consensus that the township should do what is needed to get trees around a solar array on land owned by Elizabethtown College, noting that the plan was approved with the trees as a condition. The solar array is visible from nearby homes, Supervisor Gerald F. Becker said at the […]
Read MoreParent to School Board: Walkout Is ‘Highly Political’
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Diane M. Bitting/Special to the Advocate
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On the eve of a planned walkout by Elizabethtown Area High School and Middle School students to honor victims of the Florida school shooting, a Bainbridge mother expressed concern to the Elizabethtown school board that the students would be participating in what she called a “highly political” event organized by the “left-wing” Women’s March network. […]
Read MoreDonegal School Board Sees Demonstration of Class-Attending Robot
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Nicole E. Matthews/Special to the Advocate
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A special, non-human visitor attended the latest Donegal school board meeting. A robot from Double Robotics was shown to the board and was operated by Dana Blair, director of special education and pupil services. The robot has a monitor sitting on top of a pole, which is attached to rollers so the robot can travel. […]
Read MoreLady Bears Lose a Heartbreaker to Garnet Valley in the First Round of States
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Kyle Morgan/The Elizabethtown Advocate
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In a lot of ways, it was a boxing match between Elizabethtown Area High School and Garnet Valley High School in the first round of the PIAA Girls Class 6A Basketball Championship. Whoever could survive the longest would come out with a victory. Unfortunately for the Lady Bears, they were on the losing end of […]
Read MoreEASD Superintendent Describes Challenges
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Dan Robrish/The Elizabethtown Advocate
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The Elizabethtown Area School District has the second-highest high school standardized test scores in Lancaster County – and manages to do that despite also having the second-highest number of tax-exempt properties in the county. Those were among the statistics shared by Superintendent Michele Balliet as she described some of the challenges the school district faces […]
Read MoreHow Secure Are Elizabethtown’s Public Schools?
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Diane M. Bitting/Special to the Advocate
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In the wake of the school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead, one West Donegal Township resident had a few questions for the Elizabethtown school board. “How secure is this building?” asked Ralph Horne. And, he continued, “Do you feel the building is as secure as it should be? Is it hardened enough […]
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