During the June action meeting Thursday night, the North Penn School Board continued their discussion on the very heated topic of whether masks for the 2021-2022 school year will be optional for ages 5-12. Starting off the meeting, Mrs. Joanne Wernis and Mrs. Cathy Heath highlighted the North Penn...

Goodbyes are meant to be hard. As the magnificent A. A. Milne once wrote, “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” As I write this, leaning on my desk in K239, I’m looking out of a door I don’t want to walk through. I don’t want to walk out that door today,...

For Luke Zoll, being a student is not his full-time job.  Working for Upper Gwynedd Township, Zoll started out as a park monitor and worked his way up to his current positions. “At first I started out as a park monitor. Afterward, they asked me if I could help out with COVID guidance at the...

Future Plans? I am going to either Muhlenberg or Emerson College for theatre and music.    Favorite NPHS memory? My favorite memory at NPHS was performing in Mamma Mia!, because of how electric every performance was. The energy from the cast and audience was something that I’ve never...

For 15 years, Mrs. Donna Lusardi would commute each way to work at North Penn. Obviously, there is absolutely nothing special about that—but what is, however, is the fact that it’s an hour car ride each way for her. “What I found was the people that I worked with, my group of chemistry teachers,...

What roles do you play in life? You may be a parent, a child, a teacher, a friend, or even all of those and then some. If asked, we likely all have one role that we could declare as our most important. While she is also a friend, teacher, colleague, mentor, daughter, wife, mother, and soon-to-be grandmother,...