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Conestoga Valley dominates McCaskey in week two
(WHTM) — In week two of the high school football season, the J.P. McCaskey Red Tornado (1-0) and the Conestoga Valley Buckskins (1-0) faced off under the Friday night lights. It was all Buckskins as Conestoga Valley won 55-6.
Millersville University using grant for workshops in Columbia
COLUMBIA, Pa. (WHTM) — Millersville University is using a grant to teach computer skills, among other things. The nearly $100,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry will be used for workshops at the Columbia Public Library and Columbia School District. The university believes this could help...
A Selection of Student Confessions
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The only thing worse than getting caught breaking the rules at school is being made to write a handwritten note about how, exactly, you broke the rules. And the only thing worse than that, of course, is for your school’s administration to archive those notes and digitize them over a century later for all to see. The Student Confessions collection from Millersville University of Pennsylvania brings together a collection of mostly handwritten student confessions written between 1889 and 1920 at Millersville Normal School. We’ve selected ten of our favorite confessions to share, but the entirety of the collection is freely available on JSTOR.
[LNP | LancasterOnline] Columbia school board OKs superintendent’s new contract
When: Columbia school board meeting, Thursday, Aug. 29. What happened: The school board approved a five-year contract with current Superintendent Ashley Rizzo, effective July 1, 2025. By the numbers: Under this new contract, Rizzo will earn a salary of $199,000 for the first year, plus a $7,000 stipend if she...
Donegal Runs Past Tough Week One Defeat, Runs Over Columbia In Response As Indians Claim Inaugural ‘Battle of the Rock’ In Latest Chapter Of Longtime Series
In some respects, the game of high school football is a bit of an oddity and an outlier. For example, are there any other sports in the known free world where the number of months that make up the offseason actually compare, if not totally outweigh, the number of opportunities found in the number of games played themselves? Maybe that’s a bit of a Captain Obvious moment –or perhaps not if you hadn’t ever thought of it in that way before—but when you figure that the months of preparation comes in at a sweet spot of roughly ten months give or take and then realize that the number of game guaranteed to a team is that same exact number, ten, it’s easy to understand why the window of opportunity in this particular sport is oh so precious. Unfortunately, we’re not talking about field hockey, basketball, or insert any other sport of choice here, where there’s always another game right around the corner. To that end, that’s why the old cliché of not letting one loss turn into two is more than just lip service- it’s a hard reality. And on this Friday night, exactly seven days after each their saw respective campaigns both begin with shared 0-1 marks, time was of the essence for two old rivals over in Mount Joy.
Mount Carmel cruises past Central Columbia 43-16, earns 900th win
Coming into Friday night, Mount Carmel’s football program win total sat at 899, and the Blue Jays went into the Silver Bowl hoping to keep it that way. In the first half of the game Central Columbia kept it close, only trailing by two scores heading into halftime, and remained within striking distance through three quarters. However, an offensive outburst in the fourth quarter propelled the Red Tornadoes to a 43-16 victory, their 900th win in their school’s history.
Football Opens '24 with Road Win at Millersville
MILLERSVILLE, Pa. --- The Golden Eagles football survived a low-scoring first half to put up 29 unanswered points in the second, shutting out Millersville in the second half en route to a 36-7 win in the 2024 season opener. Clarion held the Marauders to just 120 yards of offense and five first downs over the final 30 minutes of play, stifling the home team defensively while also piling on the points.
Roth Picks Up 500th Win
Jim Roth Way is the new name of the road leading into Tiger Stadium. His way has made his Southern Columbia program the standard of success. On Friday, the Tigers blanked Loyalsock 47-0 as Roth became Pennsylvania’s first, and the fifth in the United States, to win 500 games as a high school football head coach.
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