Allison-Antrim Museum, 365 S. Ridge Ave., Greencastle, received a grant from the Franklin County Foundation at the end of 2009. “Learning from Our Past” will be the focus for several seminars and workshops for adults and children in Franklin County during the 2010 summer and early fall.  
On Saturday, June 26, the second event, “Archaeology 101:  Learn to ‘Dig’ Your Past,” will be held.  The three-hour workshop is for students of Franklin County going into grades four to 12.

Fourteen people retired from the Greencastle-Antrim School District this year. They left with 357 years of service.

Concerned about the impact of looming increases for school district contributions toward teacher retirement, one Greencastle-Antrim school board member advocated no pay increases for two years once the current teachers' contract expires June 30, 2012.

In a speech punctuated by spontaneous song and admittedly lame jokes, Pastor Stacy Crawford urged graduates to prepare for life outside the confines of Greencastle-Antrim High School. Pastor of First United Methodist Church, he spoke at the Baccalaureate Service June 10 as students, family and friends joined together in a worship service in the auditorium.

Kaley Field was packed Saturday morning as family and friends watched 227 seniors graduate as the Greencastle-Antrim High School Class of 2010.

Greencastle-Antrim students can celebrate the end of the school year by cooling off at Moss Spring Pool, courtesy of the Greencastle Exchange Club.
The club will hold its annual end-of-year pool party Friday, June 11 at Moss Spring Pool, 475 N. Allison St.
The pool will open for students from primary through elementary grades from 6 to 8 p.m.
Middle school and high school students are invited from 8 to 10 p.m.
A deejay will be providing music.
The club will be providing hot dogs, snacks and drinks.
The event is chaperoned and free.

The Class of 2010 ends its days at Greencastle-Antrim High School this week. Commencement exercises will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 12 on Kaley Field.

Mark Barnhart from EI Associates returned to the Greencastle-Antrim school board June 3 with a revised plan on what $21 million could do for the district's renovation plans.

With little fanfare, and no citizens speaking for or against the 2010-2011 budget during spring discussions, the Greencastle-Antrim school board adopted the general fund budget June 3, raising real estate taxes by 3.2 mills, the maximum allowed by law. The new rate will be 94.9 mills.

The younger students in the Greencastle-Antrim School District are bullied, and are bullies themselves, at a higher rate than the national average. The findings from a 2009 self-reporting survey indicate a Pennsylvania mandate for schools to establish bullying programs came at an opportune time.

A Tayamentasachta era will end Aug. 5, the day the Greencastle-Antrim School District's first environmental education teacher retires. Charles White has spent his entire career, over 34 years, at the environmental center. His classroom was not a square room with 25 students watching him from individual desks. It was a garden, a barn, a pond with a spring house, a walnut grove or a trail through the woods. It was an old farmhouse, a new longhouse, fields and nurseries.

Gate admissions for sporting events will go up next year, as the Greencastle-Antrim School Board looks at ways to cut expenses and increase revenue during the economic downturn. On May 20 the board agreed to finalize a recommendation to raise admission prices a dollar or two at the June 3 meeting.

G-AHS students' writing has been included in an Holocaust anthology .

Jesse Herman and Ashley Frankenfield were selected king and queen of the 2010 Greencastle-Antrim High School Prom Satruday at Green Grove Gardens with the theme “A Night in Paris.”

Split votes accompanied action on hiring a firm to collect earned income tax for the Greencastle-Antrim School District until the Franklin County Tax Collection Committee selects a countywide agency. Business manager Richard Lipella recommended the school board hire the Chambersburg Area Wage Tax Bureau at the May 6 meeting. The need was urgent because Greencastle's tax officer Karen Hermann was retiring in June.

Third grade students from Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School sat in the boardroom at the Antrim Township municipal building Monday morning, one stop during their town and township tour. Zoning officer Sylvia House explained how local government established and enforced local rules. Other classes will visit on Thursday and Friday.

Eugene "Gene" Angle and Robert Allen "Addie" Goetz never walked across the stage for high school commencement. They were busy at the time.
Angle, now 86, was already a seasoned soldier, defending the United States when his Greencastle High School classmates received their diplomas in 1942.
Goetz, now 83, was a new sailor in the middle of training when his friends donned cap and gown with the Class of 1944.
Today they are able to claim alumni status with all other Greencastle graduates, as they have been awarded diplomas through Pennsylvania's legislative mandate "Operation Recognition".

Representatives from every Greencastle-Antrim High School class from 1970 through 1979 have been meeting since January to plan the mass reunion.