A group of 14 high school students attended a Cyber Security seminar held at Saint Vincent College in honor of National Cyber Security Awareness Month on Tuesday, October 18th. These students were accompanied by librarian Jesse McDonnell. The students attended four different workshops throughout the day, one of which focused on cyber bullying, one on interactive network monitoring, one on the ethics used by companies regarding technology, and one on the philosophy of law enfo

Senior wrestler Spencer Lee recently competed in the Junior World Wrestling Championships in Macon, France. Lee was in Macon from August 30 until September 5, competing as a freestyle wrestler in the 50 kg weight class. During the competition, he competed against five other wrestlers, one each from Turkey, France, Romania, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan. He competed in four rounds to qualify for finals, which he won, taking home the gold for the third time in a row. “After I won,

The 2016 Summer Olympics took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5th to 21st, and were the 31st Olympic Games. Of the many attendees, two of them were from our very own Franklin Regional. Senior wrestler Spencer Lee and art teacher Denielle DeSantis both attended their first Olympics this past August. Each was in Rio for different reasons and did many different things while there. “I was chosen to be US Olympic wrestler [Daniel Dennis’s] training partner, so I went d

With a new state budget due on June 30th, newly elected Democratic governor Tom Wolf’s new proposal has created a disagreement with Republicans in the state legislature, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. According to the organization StateImpact: NPR, Wolf initially proposed a 5 percent severance tax on the removal of natural gas through fracking but lowered his proposal to 3.5 percent plus 4.7 cents per million cubic feet of natural gas in October.