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Lackawanna Trail announces honor students

Lackawanna Trail High School Principal John Rushefski announced the first quarter honor roll. Students named to the honor roll are:

Twelfth Grade High Honors: Jillian Abballe, Daisy Brown, Nicole Bruce, Casey Chibirka, Kelsi Curran, Alyssa Del Prete, Kelsey Deveney, Krystin Dixon, Shawna Engle and Caitlin Green.

Also listed were: Jillian Green, Kristyn Grunza, Tella A. Hazen, Shane Hirschler, Julianna Holgate, Kyle Kozlansky, Jonathan Lynn, Brianna McGoff, Hannah McMinn and Kelsey Jean Miller.

Giving for holidays

The students and staff of the Abington Heights Middle School completed a canned food drive for the Abington Ecumenical Ministry. Collected items totaled 4,721. Jill Ray’s fifth grade homeroom was the leading contributor. Members of the Student Activities Council coordinated the drive under the direction of Sandra Spangler.

NPEC hosts marketing competition

Member institutions of Northeast PA Employment Consortium (NPEC) hosted a marketing plan competition at Marywood University’s Swartz Conferencing Center on Wednesday, Nov. 12. Students representing King’s College, Marywood University and the University of Scranton--three of the six member institutions--presented marketing plans to a panel of judges and the Executive Board of NPEC. The plans focused on reaching students, alumni and employers to promote NPEC and its annual Employment Fair, to be h...

PSWS Durell Johnson named to University post

Dr. Durell Johnson, Assistant Director of Academic Affairs and an associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State Worthington Scranton, was recently named Discipline Coordinator for the Division of Health and Human Development in the University College for 2008-09.

Clarks Summit resident receives scholarship

Mary Kolessar, dean of the middle school at Wyoming Seminary, and Dawn Leas, director of Lower School Admission, recently announced that Gokulan Gnanendran of Clarks Summit is a recipient of a Lower School Merit Scholarship for the 2008-09 school year. Gnanendran, son of Dr. and Mrs. Kingsley Gnanendran, is a student in the fifth grade.