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Crestwood High School seniors continue the tradition of personalizing their parking spots for the school year.

The Mountain Top area is blessed with many hard-working people as well as numerous small business owners who devote their lives to their companies. Mountain Peaks is proud to highlight a few of those businesses.

School bells rang a bit earlier this year for students in the Crestwood School District as students headed back to class for the 2023-2024 school year on August 22. St. Jude School resumed classes on August 26.

New Life Community Church, Mountain Top, held its annual Vacation Bible School July 22-26. This year’s theme was “The Great Jungle Journey – The Epic Cruise from Genesis to Revelation.”

Freeland — Attorney Richard A. DiLiberto, Jr. ’79, chair of the board of directors, and Theresa Long, head of school, announced the appointment of four new members to the MMI Preparatory School Board of Directors.

PHILADELPHIA — Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr personally urged a top federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania to issue a misleading public statement amid the 2020 presidential election that was later pounced upon by former President Donald Trump to spread false claims of vote-rigging in the state, an investigation by the Justice Department’s watchdog agency concluded Thursday.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap.

THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS

Kevin Seyer, principal, announced the following sixth grade students achieved principal’s honors at Fairview Elementary School for the fourth quarter of the 2023-2024 school year. The Crestwood School District Elementary Honor Roll (sixth Grade) reflects that the student has attained an A in all courses offered. Inclusive are English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies and Science.

Wapwallopen resident and retired art teacher, Ivan E. Hoyt was honored June 29 by the Kutztown Folk Festival and the Borough of Kutztown for 39 years of participating as a demonstrating craftsman at the annual event founded in 1950 and considered the longest continuous celebration of folk traditions in the United States.