The California Area School District has received a federal grant that will allow for an after-school program for at-risk elementary students for the next five school years. Superintendent Dr. Laura Jacob said the district will receive a shade less than $344,000 for each of those five school ...

A pint-sized granny with curlers stuck in her gray wig walked through the doors of Marshall Elementary School last week. One county away, at California Area Elementary, students pasted a variety of items, including cheese puffs, Cheerios and chocolate chips, to a paper. One hundred of them, to ...