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A community Web site for the Octorara Area School District is now available for you at www.lancasteronline.com. To register, visit lancasteronline.com, click on My Community on the top left, and register to be notified or contribute some "buzz."

You will also have the opportunity to comment on community news and issues and send in news of community events. News items formerly posted to this site as a community service now apear just there.

Welcome and participate!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

In Octorara, a week of caring

What do Octorara Area School Board members and district administrators have in common with a Christiana man who once played Jed Clampett in a jalopie journey? Read that story and a story about an attorney’s opinion on the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s Act 319 or “Clean and Green” in this week’s Intell/New Era.

See how Octorara’s budget stacks up against other Lancaster County school district budgets in the story “Schools hold down taxes” www.lancasteronline.com/article/local/419345_Schoold-hold-down-taxes.html.

See the July 17 Sunday News for photos of Saturday’s sixth annual Cpl. Brandon Hardy Memorial Ride. More than 400 people, including about 260 motorcycles, turned out for the 107-mile ride honoring the Marine and Octorara graduate, who was killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

This rural community may not be challenging the state's constitution, but its members are reaching out to help and honor others.