Rated best-value college

Rated best-value college
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- According to The Princeton Review, Grove City College is one of the nation's best-value undergraduate institutions. The New York-based education services company features Grove City in the 2007 edition of "America's Best Value Colleges." The guide profiles 150 colleges with excellent academics and relatively low costs. According to The Princeton Review, the average cost to attend a public college or university for four years is $48,500. At a private college, it's $116,000. At Grove City College in 2006-07, full-time students in residence halls will pay $16,728 annually, which includes tuition, room and board. Grove City College does not tack on additional fees. At those rates, four years of college at Grove City is about $67,000.
Best in music education
BOARDMAN -- The Boardman School District has made the 2006 list of the "Best 100 Communities for Music Education in America." The results of the national survey were announced recently by the American Music Conference, the nonprofit affiliate of NAMM, the International Music Products Association that supports the benefits of music, music education and music making. This is the organization's seventh annual survey.
World War II program
EAST PALESTINE -- Home-schooled children are invited to the East Palestine Memorial Public Library to hear local resident Ben DeJong talk bout his childhood experiences in his native Holland during World War II. He was just 7 when the war came to Holland and was 11 when it ended. He will speak at 10 a.m. Thursday in the library at 309 N. Market St. The free program is for ages 10 and up. To reserve a spot, call (330) 426-6233.
Search for young artists
MIAMI, Fla. -- The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts is accepting 2006-07 registrations from young artists for its NFAA Arts Recognition and Talent Search & reg; program. NFAA identifies and rewards exceptional student artists from across the United States in nine art disciplines: dance, film and video, classical, pop and jazz music, photography, theater, visual arts, voice and writing. High school juniors are encouraged to apply for an awards package including more than $500,000 in cash prizes and the chance to be named a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, earning national recognition and opportunities for additional scholarships.
The early registration deadline is June 1; the final deadline is Oct. 2; and the deadline to submit audition/portfolio materials is Nov. 1. There is a registration fee of $25 per discipline. Those who register online at www.NFAA.ARTSawards.org before the June 1 deadline will receive a 30-percent fee discount. Eligible artists must be high school seniors during the 2006-07 school year.
Honors Breakfast
BOARDMAN -- The Parent Teacher Student Association at Boardman High School held its first Honors Breakfast for pupils in grades nine through 12 last week. All those with cumulative grade point averages of 3.5 were invited, and breakfast was served by PTA mothers and school administrators. The class valedictorians each gave a brief speech during the event.
Lambda Sigma inductees
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- Two area residents are among 36 Westminster College students to be inducted into Lambda Sigma during a banquet Thursday in the McKelvey Campus Center Witherspoon Room. Lambda Sigma is an honor society with the purpose of fostering leadership, scholarship, fellowship and the spirit of service among the men and women of the sophomore class. Local inductees are: Marissa Young, daughter of Michael and Pamela Fellion of New Castle, freshman French major and graduate of Shenango High School; Christopher Lehberger, son of Robert and Robin Lehberger of New Wilmington, freshman exploratory major and graduate of Wilmington Area High School.