Wallenpaupack Area High School held its annual scholarship/awards program on Friday, June 18, 2010. Individuals, organizations and businesses, 114 in all, contributed 165 scholarships totaling $123, 887 as noted by Jay Starnes, Principal.
Brooke Wilkins was the Valedictorian of the Class of 2010, Wallenpaupack Area High School. She is seen delivering her address, in which she used a story about passing a rescue line to others.
Olivia Hessling was the Salutatorian of the Class of 2010, Wallenpaupack Area High School. She is seen delivering her address, in which she likened their school years to a rainbow of colors.
Wallenpaupack Area School Board, Monday night, approved a budget for the 2010-2011 school year with the following tax increases;
Wayne County millage rate, 12.5860, an increase of .48 mill, or 3.97%.
Pike County millage rate, 61.6353, an increase of 1.36 mills, or 2.26%.
The budget includes $60,149,349 in expenditures and $59,164,310 in revenue. This budget is a 2.03% increase over the 2009-2010 budget.
MORE TO FOLLOW
Delaware Township Library announces the library is the recipient of a 2010 Libri Foundation Grant.
The Lacawac Sanctuary will conduct a Reptile and Amphibian Walk on Wednesday, June 2 at 7 pm.
A record amount of books were sold at the Spring Library Book/Bake sale held on May 15-16 in Milford. The event, held at the American Legion Hall, yielded $5124, according to Chairperson Ken Corcoran.
Regional 4-H driving clinics will be held in two different eastern locations in June.
A successful month-long celebration of the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the 2010 Big Read selection, will come to a close at the end of this week. Be sure to mark your calendar for the following final events.
The May meeting of the Pike County Public Library (PCPL) Board of Directors will take place on Monday, May 24 at the Lehman Township Municipal Building in Bushkill at 9:30 am.
The Wallenpaupack School Board approved a preliminary budget, under the cloud of uncertainty over the State funding, after the Senate Republican leadership sent a letter to all school districts telling them not to count on Gov. Rendel’s proposed budget.
Have you ever wondered what the large “P” on the top of Milford’s Forest Hall stands for? Do you know who used to live in the Milford Community House before it became the Pike County library? Can you guess why the Pike County Courthouse has French-influenced architecture?
Spring is in the air, summer is approaching, and it is a great time to get outside and experience all that nature in Northeastern Pennsylvania has to offer. For information on any of the events below or to register, please contact the Conservancy at 570-226-3164 or info@delawarehighlands.org.
Two girls were treated at a Honesdale hospital after taking prescription drugs during a school field trip
Northampton College is set to open one facility in Hawley, replacing the Honesdale and Shohola campuses, for either June or July 1, according to Matt Connell, dean of the Monroe County Campus.
For many, the social highlight of a high school student’s academic life, the Western Wayne High School Junior-Senior Prom, was turned upside down Saturday night by a bomb scare at the banquet center in Tafton.
Wondering about solar energy and how it can work in our region? What happens on a cloudy day or during the winter? Have you heard about state and federal incentives and want to know more about solar options? All of these questions and more will be answered from 1:30 -3 pm Saturday, May 8, at PPL’s Wallenpaupack Environmental Learning Center in Hawley.
April 30 is the deadline to get applications in for the 2010 Summer Camp scholarships offered by Northeast Pa. Audubon. All tuition is paid for by Audubon.
In June. four students from Wallenpaupack Area high School (WAHS) will be traveling to Kansas City, MO, to compete Nationally in the Allied Health program’s Health Knowledge Quiz Bowl, part of Skills USA VICA competitions, as a result from winning their local and state competition held at the High School and then in Hershey.
A bus with about 30 students was hit by a train in Hawley this morning and it tested the skills of firefighters police and EMS volunteers from across Wayne and Pike counties. But that was what it was meant to do becuase it was a drill.
