Sports
CEDAR GROVE-BELGIUM’S Carter Schmitz took a throw and tried to catch a Random Lake runner stealing in a home win on April 28 as Austin Knapp (3) raced to back up the play. Schmitz hit a walk-off grounder in the bottom of the seventh inning to win the game, 7-6, for the Rockets, and Knapp last Friday at Random Lake hit a two-RBI go-ahead single in the top of the seventh. The Rockets held on to win, 3-1. Photo by Sam Arendt
Another nail-biting finish over a conference rival has Cedar Grove-Belgium High School’s baseball team on pace to repeat as Big East South champs.
Austin Knapp laced a two-out, go-ahead two-RBI single on a line drive to center field in the top of...
Op-Ed
“I will get things done for America to make our people safer, smarter and healthier. I will bring Americans together to strengthen our communities.”
Those words come from the pledge volunteers take when they sign up for service in AmeriCorps. They embody the ethic of service to one’s country and its citizens.
Elon Musk said on...
Good Living
ENGLISH TEACHER Philipp Heinrichsdobler of Germany (front left) and Port Washington High School German teacher posed with the German exchange students and some of their American classmates in front of flags of Austria, Germany and Bavaria. Photo by Sam Arendt Lower, Several students from Germany learned about life in America by spending two weeks staying with American families through an exchange program. Among them were German Julia Hecht, American Ammon Schmutzler, Germans Karl Plötz and Lukas Lommer, and Americans Ava Arndt and Ethan Driggers. Photo by Sam Arendt
Two weeks is all it takes for teens living an ocean apart to become friends.
A couple of German exchange students visiting Port Washington wished it could have lasted a little longer.
Neither Karl Plötz or Lukas Lommer were ready to go home after...
Business
Representatives from more than two dozen businesses, organizations and colleges were at Port Washington High School last week to talk with students about career options, work-based learning programs and pathways to employment after high school...
