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Education

‘IT’S A BLAST’

Last year on a chilly overcast October Friday Tristan Shepherd and his seventh-grade friends and classmates sat inside the school waiting for their turn. This chilly overcast Friday that turn came— it was Rocket Day — “The best thing ever,” Shepherd and his friends proclaimed. Friday ...

Operation Safe Stop wants to remind drivers to…STOP!

More than a month into the school year, many motorists are accustomed to seeing school buses during their daily commutes. But, PennDOT, local police, and Warren County School District are working together to make sure that familiarity does not breed complacency. Next Wednesday, ...

Create the world

A group of young artists have their works on display in the library. The YMCA Art Club has a show hanging in the Wetmore Gallery at Warren Public Library through the end of October. The club meets once a week for five weeks, an hour at a time. “They work on pieces while sharing the ...

Trauma informed

Warren County School District staff and representatives of area agencies learned about various ways to support efforts to make elementary classrooms in the district more trauma-informed this week. Lynn Shultz, the district’s supervisor of elementary education, told those in attendance at ...

Firefighters ready for annual boot drive Friday

It’s time for the annual boot drive. Members of International Association of Firefighters Local 1835 in Warren, and volunteers, will be at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Liberty Street from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18. Donations put in the boots will benefit the food ...

WCSD students find buckets of happiness

About 1,700 Warren County students went on field trips Monday to learn how to be bucket fillers. It was not any kind of job training. The Virginia Repertory Theatre presented the five-person musical ‘Have You Filled a Bucket Today’ twice on Monday at Struthers Library Theatre. The ...