WAVERLY - Owego Free Academy moved one step closer to capturing a Scholarship Challenge championship by advancing to the March 24 finals after defeating Elmira-Notre Dame in the radio quiz show’s fourth round Saturday.
OFA had defeated Addision to advance to Saturday’s final round. Meanwhile, Notre Dame had defeated Watkins Glen and Tioga Central before falling [...]
HARRISBURG - The state’s student loan agency, already the focus of negative publicity for its travel expenses, has a new critic.
The governor.
“It has to have a total housecleaning,” Gov. Rendell said of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. “When the cost of college is more and more challenging to Pennsylvanians and their families, we can’t [...]
The largest-ever study abroad scholarship donation could help drastically increase the number of graduates who studied abroad at the University of Kansas.
The donation could potentially raise the number of students who have studied abroad from one-in-four to one-in-two within the next five years.
Larry D. Horner and his wife, Donna Manning Horner, endowed half a million [...]
The publicity for the Discovery Channel documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus†has a disturbingly familiar ring. Over the past five years, we have been hearing this kind of thing on a schedule that is almost as regular as the network sweeps and the new fall programs.
First came the James Ossuary; then The DaVinci Code, [...]
BARTON - James E. Clark Jr. died Nov. 14, 2002, after a long and spirited battle with cancer.
In memory of Clark, a respected community member as well as youth and high school athletic coach for more than 20 years, his family and friends established the James E. Clark Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Clark was a beloved [...]
More than 20 fledgling racing drivers will meet at the BMW Performance Centre in Bahrain this weekend for one of the first major contests of their motorsport careers, and a chance to earn one of five coveted Formula BMW Asia Scholarships.
The youngsters are all aged between 15 and 20, and hail from every corner of [...]
Mary Wollenberg pitched the idea of raising money for a scholarship to help a Terryville High School senior graduating this year continue her or his education. The plan was very well received.
“I’m a former teacher and I work with another scholarship through my church,” Wollenberg said.
Sue Murawski, town councilor at large and club member, [...]
Leon County Commissioner Ed DePuy has matched all gifts made in the memory of his late wife, Linda DePuy, to the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation for a scholarship endowment. Linda DePuy died last year.
He matched $20,000 in gifts for the endowment. The scholarships will go to hospital employees who are seeking degrees in nursing. DePuy [...]
City leaders want Matt Atkinson’s name to live on in Green Bay for generations, but in order for that to happen they need to raise more money.
On September 14 last year, Atkinson told school staff at Green Bay East High School about an attack three of his peers were planning.
Police arrested East students William Cornell [...]
The amount of the scholarship is $500 awarded on a one time per winner basis towards the tuition cost of the estimated 39 week OCB program.The scholarship will be awarded to a student who is a resident of a county within the recognized DMA of the Toledo Market.The selection of the winner will be based [...]