The Beginning

With the demise of the Parkesburg Post Ledger, something needed to be established to get the Octorara School Board meeting information out to the public in a timely matter. The official minutes are not published on the Octorara district website until they are approved at the next school board meeting. That means that it is over a month until the public can access that information from the district - and while I understand the district's reason for this policy, without a newspaper covering the meetings, that is entirely too long for information to get to the public.

I will attend as many school board meetings as I can and report back here. I can't promise that I will make it to all of them, but I will do my best.

The blog itself will stick to the facts. I will post the agenda with any notes from the discussion at the meeting. Any opinions I have, concerning those meetings, will only be posted in the comments section.

I will give an opinion now, however... I think it is a shame that we have lost the only paper to report on local events...no matter how flawed it was. Our students will not get the recognition and coverage they deserve, whether it is in the academic, athletic, or community service arenas. We certainly cannot count on the Daily Local News or one of the Lancaster papers to cover these events.