Magnet

Hello! Happy St. Patrick's Day, happy spring and happy Easter! Parents, remember, there will be no school Thursday, Friday or Monday. Enjoy your vacation and your holiday! Church to present 'The Passion' "The Passion: A Mediatation Walk," will be offered at St. John's Evangical Lutheran Church in its Gettysburg Hall, the second floor of the Education Building, which is accessible by elevator. It will be open on Wednesday and Thursday from noon to 2 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. and Friday from noon to 9 p.m. All are welcome!

"I just read the item about the Sunday Christians and the Christmas Catholics. I think the idea about being Christian has nothing to do with if you go to church or not, it's the idea that you're supposed to be Christian-like every day of the week, not just on Sundays. " - Hedgesville, W.Va. "It's the week of Grandparents Day, and there was a basket drawing for the grandparents and I won the drawing. I'm very thankful to the vendors who helped to set it up. It was very nice.

tarar@herald-mail.com The Washington County Board of Education put an arts and academics magnet program proposed for Fountaindale Elementary School on hold Tuesday night, asking Interim Schools Superintendent Elizabeth Morgan to make sure funding will be available for the project. School officials and parents proposed the program to attract gifted students to the high-poverty school. The program, called Fountaindale School for Arts and Academic Excellence, would cost about $200,000.

dank@herald-mail.com Washington County Public Schools' first magnet school program for academically gifted students is on its way to filling the program's most basic need - students. The school system received 102 applications, and three more are expected to be submitted this week, for the 40 seats available in the gifted program that will be part of the Fountaindale School for Arts and Academic Excellence, Fountaindale Principal Elaine Semler said Tuesday. "We're really excited.

Many volunteer fire and rescue companies might have placed the $42,973 in expenses that did not fit into specific operating expense categories into a bucket called "Miscellaneous. " But Smithsburg Emergency Medical Services went beyond requirements of the county's reporting forms, which list 13 categories of operating expenditures, including miscellaneous. That form also provides lines for capital expenditure items, such as buildings and equipment, and includes a miscellaneous capital line.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2012-13 Magnet Program in Washington County Public Schools. The program is offered at Boonsboro, Emma K. Doub, Fountaindale and Williamsport elementary schools and Boonsboro, E. Russell Hicks and Springfield middle schools. Application packets are available from any elementary and middle school, from the Office of Advanced Programs, 820 Commonwealth Ave., Hagerstown, or from the county school website at www.wcps.k12.md.us, according to a school system news release.

HAGERSTOWN - Three new magnet programs will be available for Washington County Public Schools students by the start of the next school year, but officials say they are unsure how much the programs will cost. Magnet programs will be options at E. Russell Hicks, Springfield and Boonsboro middle schools. There are currently four elementary schools with magnet programs in Washington County. Those are Emma K. Doub (integrated arts and technology), Fountaindale (arts and academic excellence)

HAGERSTOWN Three new magnet programs will be available for Washington County Public Schools students by the start of the next school year, but officials say they are unsure how much the programs will cost. Magnet programs will be options at E. Russell Hicks, Springfield and Boonsboro middle schools. There are currently four elementary schools with magnet programs in Washington County. Those are Emma K. Doub (integrated arts and technology), Fountaindale (arts and academic excellence)

BOONSBORO ? Hunched over a piece of poster board, 10-year-old Iris Wechsler and her friends were busy brainstorming. In large letters at the top of their poster, the girls wrote, "The magnet program must stay. " Reasons for keeping the magnet program at Boonsboro Elementary School came easy. They are learning. They are having fun. Their classes are more advanced. They enjoy learning. Iris and about 25 other children spent Tuesday night drawing on posters and writing letters to the Washington County Board of Education, asking them not to take away the world languages and global communications magnet program that has been there since the previous school year.