High School Highlights by the Daily American

07/20/2022

"Standard security precautions were immediately taken at the facility and the campus was temporarily placed on lockdown," according to the hospital's communications officer Sarah Deist in an email.

10/16/2020

Impossible?
Haley Miller, Meyersdale
https://www.dailyamerican.com/entertainment/highschoolhighlights/impossible/article_7a2c8b66-08d1-11eb-b24c-7ba8f921e22c.html

The NFL is trying to complete the impossible this football season.

10/16/2020

Masquerade Fall Ball for the Conemaugh Township Seniors
Sarah Favreau, Conemaugh Township
https://www.dailyamerican.com/entertainment/highschoolhighlights/masquerade-fall-ball-for-the-conemaugh-township-seniors/article_63f01314-0e5c-11eb-bf95-f39f6ecfa2c8.html

On Oct. 31, the Masquerade Fall Ball dance will be held for the Conemaugh Township High School senior class.

10/16/2020

Movie reviews
Jeanette Hutzell, Somerset
https://www.dailyamerican.com/entertainment/highschoolhighlights/movie-reviews/article_c5ac8c1c-0e5d-11eb-80a5-8be24ebbfd0d.html

Most have been struggling to find new content to watch.

10/16/2020

Teens in the workplace
Lillian Clark, Meyersdale
https://www.dailyamerican.com/entertainment/highschoolhighlights/teens-in-the-workplace/article_429c36d8-0e5d-11eb-8f17-03a8361ee574.html

Tenth grader Haley Miller began working at her first job this summer at the Thomas Drug Store.

10/16/2020

More people in Somerset County have resorted to using drugs and alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Becca Mull, Twin Lakes Center manager of prevention and education.

10/03/2020

10/03/2020

Shanksville senior Julie Mitchell recently made a large donation to the Somerset County Mobile Food Bank after growing the donation herself.

09/30/2020

Somerset Area School District seems to have weathered the first COVID-19 case reported without an outbreak.

09/30/2020

The Somerset Lions Club had to think outside the box to come up with a new fundraiser to replace several canceled projects because of COVID-19. The answer was an online

09/30/2020

The Allegany College of Maryland Foundation announces that the following out-of-county and out-of-state students from Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia received Presidential Award scholarships to attend Allegany College of Maryland:

09/19/2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington.

09/08/2020

As the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, approaches on Friday, more and more visitors are making the pilgrimage to the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field,

09/07/2020

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A guy walks into a bar, which still isn't allowed in Texas.

09/07/2020

GARRETT — After years of working through wetland mitigation and funding matters, construction on the first segment of the September 11th National Memorial Trail starts next week.

09/07/2020

Editor’s note: This feature is a collaboration between the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department and the Daily American to apprehend individuals who are wanted on warrants for failure to appear to

09/03/2020

No serious injuries were reported after a vehicle driven by a student crashed into a brick wall at the front of North Star School District at 2:40 p.m. Thursday.

09/03/2020

According to officials at the Meyersdale Area School District, the first two days of school went well and they are now assessing the future of homecoming, prom and sports.