Smoke Interrupts LMHS Classes

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LMHS Senior, Wynnewood Groups, Honored at "Go For The Green" Awards

The awards were presented by Lower Merion Township’s Environmental Advisory Council at Villanova's Appleford Estate on May 15.

Lower Merion High School senior Bobby Lundquist and two Wynnewood groups were honored at Lower Merion's “Go For The Green” Environmental Awards, presented by Lower Merion Township’s Environmental Advisory Council, at Villanova's Appleford Estate on May 15. The EAC's "Go For The Green" awards honor local people, organizations and businesses working toward environmental sustainability and green practices. Residents Award: Pasture Partners Pasture Partners, a group of 11 individuals who banded together to buy the 4.5-acre Toland Farm pasture in Wynnewood, were honored with the 2012 Residents Award. The Pasture Partners received a conservation easement from the Lower Merion Conservancy and worked to protect the land, which had been owned by …

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Lower Merion High School Ranked 16th In State by US News and World Report

US News and World Report gave LMHS and Harriton high marks based on several metrics.

U.S. News and World Report has once again ranked Lower Merion High School and Harriton High School among the state and the nation's best schools. Lower Merion is ranked as the 16th best high school in the state, and nationally, is ranked 835th. Harriton is ranked 28th best in Pennsylvania and 1,131st in the nation in the new poll, posted here on the US News Website. The rankings are determined by a number of factors including: teacher to student ratio (Lower Merion's is 11:1), college readiness and math and reading proficiency of students (based on standardized test results). In case you're wondering how other local high schools stack up: The top ranked high school in the nation is in Dallas, Texas. Click here to see the entire US News …

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LMHS To Modernize, Localize, 1743 Play

Lower Merion High School's drama group, Players, will present "Servant of Two Masters" April 26-28.

Lower Merion High School's drama group, Players, was hard at work on Thursday, conducting the first off-book run-through of its spring comedy, "Servant of Two Masters."  The 1743 play will be somewhat contemporized and localized by the theater group, Players dramaturge and LMHS senior Elsa Schieffelin said. "It's a comedy written in 1743, but it's with a rather modern translation," student director LMHS senior Robert Gaudio explained. "It's in the style of comeddia dell'arte, and it's heavily improv-based—which is kind of ironic because it's scripted." Gaudio said that Players has worked a lot of local references into the play as well. "It's going to be a really fun production." The play will run Thursday, April 26 to Saturday, April 28 at…

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LMHS Teens To Build School In Haiti

A group of 18 LMHS students will travel to Haiti in May to build a schoolhouse in a rural village.

Fourteen days, 18 passionate kids, some bricks, and $66,000:  that's what it takes to change the lives of an entire community. In May, 18 Lower Merion High School students will travel to Les Cayes, Haiti, to build a schoolhouse in a rural village and immerse themselves in the culture of a developing country. The 18 students, all members of the LMHS chapter of community service group buildOn, were selected for buildOn's Trek For Knowledge cultural immersion trip in November.  The trip itself is an intense two-week venture. From May 12 to May 26, students will spend about four hours each day on the worksite alongside men and women from the village, working together to dig, pick, sift, mix concrete, make bricks, carry water and tie rebar.  …

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Photos: LMHS Construction

A look at recent construction at and near the high school.

Lower Merion School District has recently undertaken a number of construction projects at Lower Merion High School. Here's a quick look at what work has been done, what's underway now, and when it's all supposed to (finally) be finished.

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Ardmore Resident's Passion for Production Started on a Local Stage

InterAct Theater's artistic director got his start 30 years ago at Lower Merion High School.

Lower Merion, Harriton in Food Fight

Lower Merion, Penncrest, Harriton, Conestoga and 17 other high schools are competing in a two-week canned food drive benefiting Philabundance.

Student from 21 high schools, including Lower Merion, Penncrest, Harriton and Conestoga, are participating in a massive food fight that could win them $10,000 for their schools. The Great Food Fight, sponsored by biopharmeceutical company Shire, is a canned food drive competition benefiting Philabundance. Last year, 21 schools raised more than 64 tons of food for Philabundance over a two-week period, and this year, Shire is setting its sights even higher. The company is aiming to collect 100 tons of canned goods in this year's competition, which runs from Feb. 15 to March 2. Being crowned the winner of the 21-school competition is good incentive to participate, but there's a bigger prize at stake: the school that collects the most pounds …

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Aces Win 64-46; On To State Playoffs

The Aces will play Souderton in the district quarterfinals 7 p.m. Friday at LMHS.

The Lower Merion Aces beat Plymouth-Whitemarsh 64-46 and secured a state playoff berth after surging ahead in the game's fourth quarter Tuesday night.  This is the second year in a row that the Aces have made it to state playoffs, and their third quarterfinals game in four years. Read more about the tough game on Aces Hoops and Main Line Times. On Friday night at 7 p.m., the Aces take on Souderton at Lower Merion High School. The Indians have lost only two games since December, and come to Lower Merion hot off a 70-55 victory against Council Rock North in Tuesday's district opener, making them a formidable opponent for the Aces.

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