Wolf shuts down K-12 schools

Closures to run through March 27

Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday afternoon all Pennsylvania kindergarten through grade 12 schools will be closed from March 16 to 27 in response to the novel coronavirus 2019 pandemic.

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Students at Penn Christian learn to Love Out Loud

For Valentine's Day, first-grade students at Penn Christian Academy shared Bible verses with each other about love and made love bugs that were mounted on a “God's Little Love Bugs” bulletin board. Above is the work of Bailey Caldwell.

Penn Christian Academy's Love Out Loud program reflects the theme verse chose for this school year — Luke 10:27: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.”

2/7/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Growing ideas

School garden plants seeds of learning

Some of the members of Butler Catholic School's garden club with their carrot harvest are, from left, Maddigan Smith, Luciana Sloboda, Breonah Johnston, Alexandra Swift, Layden Painter, Adelaide Livengood, Winter Phillips and Alexa Coyle.

Recent January snow squalls and wind chills in the low 20s hasn't kept members of the Butler Catholic School garden club from harvesting fresh vegetables from garden beds through the winter months.

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