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Cocalico School District revised its elementary science curriculum last year and restructured its school schedule so more students could get individualized academic help.

Carter & MacRae Elementary School increased its emphasis on teaching nonfiction reading material, including textbooks, in ...

Nearly 2,300 local households and businesses still were without power late Monday as crews continued the cleanup from Hurricane Irene.

However, the Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency reported Monday afternoon that some PPL customers in the county could remain without electricity until T...

One school was closed by a power outage and hundreds of students at other schools were delayed by storm-related road closures as the new year began Monday for nearly 60,000 Lancaster County students one day after Hurricane Irene ravaged the county.

"It's truly the calm after the storm," Michael L...

Fireworks, live entertainment, games, carnival rides and lots of food are on the agenda for Adamstown's ninth annual Community Days celebration over Memorial Day weekend, May 27, 28 and 29.
The borough is celebrating its 250th anniversary during 2011, and Community Days will have many activities and...

Cocalico School District students are taking Google far beyond its familiar search-engine identity.

At it the school board's meeting Monday, Cocalico's technology staff and teachers explained how they use Google's less-familiar Google Applications as teaching tools.

The school now has more tha...

Five years ago, Octorara Middle School decided to take a new approach to getting students to read more books.

The school piloted a curriculum that teaches pupils reading comprehension skills and allows them to read books they like — not just books the whole class is reading.

Teachers sta...

Demetrius Whitsett's father, Jermaine, served in Iraq for a year in 2004.
And Jermaine Whitsett's U.S. Army unit is back in the Middle East right now, but, due to an injury, he had to stay home.
So Demetrius, 11, a fifth-grader at Adamstown Elementary School, already knew what it was like ...

Taxes are going up this year for Cocalico School District residents. Now, district officials fear the cost of collecting them may rise, too.
The Cocalico School Board approved a nearly 5 percent tax increase in June. And at its Aug. 17 meeting, the board discussed a new "Tax Collection Committ...

Ever since Jade Zimmerman started raising Ed — her Southdown sheep — she's been receiving daily kisses from him.
And on Sunday afternoon, after she finished fifth in the purebred Southdown market lamb heavyweight and was named master showman in her class at the 2009 Pennsylvania Far...

What do you get when you combine guitar riffs with grammar lessons?
A room full of singing, clapping — and at times screaming — elementary students at a concert by The Grammarheads.
Get ready. This band might be coming to an elementary school near you. That is, if these four teachers fro...