The student news site of Pottsville Area High School

Tide Lines
The student news site of Pottsville Area High School

Tide Lines
The student news site of Pottsville Area High School

Tide Lines
Athletes sign to colleges

Athletes sign to colleges

Alexis Yoder, Editor-in-Chief • May 9, 2019

Seven athletes have made the decision to further their academic and athletic careers at the collegiate level. They are seniors Victor Ortiz, Parker Zimerofsky, Josh Hamilton, Patrick Ryan, Samantha Day,...

Senior football players pose with the teachers who have inspired them throughout high school.

Senior football players and their inspirational teachers

Alexis Yoder, Editor-In-Chief • November 15, 2018

For the October 26 pep rally, in honor of senior night, senior football players asked the teacher that inspired them the most during their high school career to wear their jersey during the school day....

Mr. Schuttler, the middle school’s librarian, is a volunteer firefighter. He said, “We got called down to the station. We were going around … house to house trying to get to people who had been affected by the flood, out of the flood. Once the water receded, then we switched to pumping out basements. We pretty much just set up teams going house to house trying to get to get the water out of their basements, and we did that for the rest of the week. It was a flash flood, so the water came up, flooded, and then dropped again. So once everyone was safe, we had to switch to getting them back to together again. We had to set up a shelter. Some people were in the shelter for a few hours. They assembled a food pantry in town for the people who lost most everything in the flood. Once the basements were done, it switched to some workers coming in and cleaning up all the debris.”

Stories from the Port Carbon Flood

Michael Johnson-Ponce, Editor • October 25, 2018

During the middle of August, Pottsville was hit with a devastating storm. Roads were closed, basements were flooded, and even band camp was cancelled. While a lot of people felt the effects of the flooding,...

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