East Penn School District

LMMS, Eyer Students Shine at Mathcounts

Lower Macungie Middle School student Jereme Chien took 10th place in Lehigh Valley Mathcounts regional competition. Eyer Middle School's Sandhya Sriaam was among the top female contenders.

Jereme Chien, an eighth grade student at Lower Macungie Middle School recently took 10th place in the Lehigh Valley Mathcounts competition, held Feb. 10 at Trexler Middle School in Allentown. Sandhya Sriaam, a 7th grader at Eyer Middle School was among the top female competitors. The 29th annual  event attracted more than 200 middle school competitors from five counties.  The regional competition was organized by Lehigh Valley Chapter of the PA Society of Professional Engineers, Lower Macungie Middle School was fifth top ranking team of the 30 schools that participated. The students spent the morning taking a series of tests that featured questions like: Tests were sent immediately to a scoring room for grading and ranking. The afternoon …

• Photos (1)

East Penn School District

LMMS Students Collect Books to 'Take the Sting Out of Sandy'

Lower Macungie Middle School students are collecting books and selling t-shirts to help NJ students affected by Superstorm Sandy

Superstorm Sandy may be gone, but, even here in the Lehigh Valley, her impact is clearly not forgotten. Indeed, students at Lower Macungie Middle School are doing their part to remember Sandy and the devastation the storm caused up and down the east coast through an ongoing service project dubbed “Take the Sting Out of Sandy.” Following the storm, LMMS students suggested to school administrators that LMMS do something to help out students in New Jersey, according to a press release from East Penn School District. This suggestion ultimately evolved into an ongoing building-wide project in which LMMS has been collecting gently used middle school and elementary school level books to donate to the schools of the Toms River, N.J./Ocean County, …

• Photos (1)

Viewfinder

Honk if You Like Snow Geese!

Snow geese flock to field in Lower Macungie Township, causing those in passing vehicles to pull over and gawk.

Simply put, they were car-stoppers. A major gaggle of unapologetic snow geese kept coming and coming and coming late Thursday afternoon to create quite a spectacle in a Lower Macungie Township field. It was like the scene out of Hitchcock's "The Birds," only more controlled and totally uninterested -- fortunately -- in attacking humans. Cars alone were the victims of the sheer number of geese. Area car washes will benefit. Many probably heard and then could see a sizable flock overhead in the Trexlertown area. Anyone who cared to further investigate or continued home in the area of Mill Creek, Spring Creek or Lower Macungie roads found an even more astounding scene as the countless number of birds had settled in a cut cornfield between the…

• Photos (8)
• Videos (1)

Fatal Crash: Patch Readers Would Have Helped

Patch readers say they would have stopped to help at last week's fatal crash in front of Lower Macungie Middle School

Patch asked our readers what they would have done if they were behind last Wednesday's car accident in front of Lower Macungie Middle School that left an Emmaus woman dead and five others injured. An eyewitness who stopped to help told us at least two other drivers did u-turns to get away from the crash scene 41-year-old Brandi Kralik of Emmaus was pronounced dead at the scene after a van collided with her Grand Am. Patch users posted 22 comments responding to our question of whether they would have stopped to help. Here are some of the responses: Jennifer: I was in her situation 9 years ago, but because of a fast-acting bystander, the EMS were able to get me out of the crushed car 45 minutes later before I bled to death in my seat. Lanya…

• Photos (1)

Update: Coroner Says Emmaus Woman Died in Lower Macungie Road Crash

The crash occurred just after 3 p.m. in front of Lower Macungie Middle School.

A 41-year-old Emmaus woman was killed Wednesday afternoon as the result of a motor vehicle accident in front of Lower Macungie Middle School. Brandi Kralik was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash that occurred on Lower Macungie Road just after 3 p.m., according to Lehigh County Deputy Coroner David Krause. An autopsy will be performed Thursday to determine the exact cause of death, he said in a release. Kralik was driving one of the two vehicles involved in the accident, he said. Preliminary reports say others were injured in the two-vehicle crash. Lower Macungie Road was closed for more than three hours as a result of the accident. Patch will report more details as soon as they become available.

•  12 Comments
• Photos (3)

East Penn School District

Readers Delight at Emmaus Public Library Book Sale

Community Fun Day at Lower Macungie Middle School features books, health fair.

Thanks to the Emmaus Public Library, books were everywhere at the Community Fun Day held Satuday, April 28 at Lower Macungie Middle School. The library's annual sale at LMMS is always a sure draw for readers of all ages. This year there were an estimated 18,000 books on sale, some selling for as little as 50 cents to $1. The sale wasn't the only attraction at the Community Fun Day. A Nutrition, Health, and Safety Fair took up the school's front lobby. Participants included Lehigh Valley Hospital, the Burn Prevention Foundation, Primo Produce, Domino's Pizza, and more.

• Photos (9)

East Penn School District

East Penn 7th Graders Impress Judges in Bookmark Contest

Business and Professional Women’s Club of the Lehigh Valley honors five local middle schoolers for their entries into the 14th Annual Women’s History Month Bookmark Contest.

On the surface, Women’s History Month and the childhood classic “The Mouse and the Motorcycle” may not seem to have a whole lot in common. But, for Eyer Middle School seventh-grader Justin Hower, the Beverly Cleary work served as the centerpiece of his winning entry into the Business and Professional Women’s Club (BWPC) of the Lehigh Valley’s 14th Annual Women’s History Month Bookmark Contest. Hower’s contest submission, which included an essay and a drawing about Cleary, took first place in this year’s competition. His work has been made into a bookmark, which was unveiled at a BWPC award program on March 19. Hower, as well as the second- and third-place winners, presented their winning essays during the program. Rina Hollinger, an Eyer …

• Photos (3)

East Penn Students to Compete in ‘Olympics of Math’ Today

Lehigh Valley MATHCOUNTS will be held at Trexler Middle School in Allentown on Feb. 4.

Students from Eyer and Lower Macungie middle schools and St. Ann School are among the 282 students from 28 middle schools from five counties competing in the 28th annual Lehigh Valley MATHCOUNTS this morning. The event will be held at Trexler Middle School, 851 N. 15th Street, Allentown, beginning with a written test from 9:15 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. in the gym. The top 10 scoring students will face off in the Countdown Round, a "Jeopardy" style oral competition, at 1 p.m. in the school auditorium. Organized by the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers for students in Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Luzerne and Monroe counties, the Feb. 4 event is one of 23 Pennsylvania competitions. Regional winners …

• Photos (1)

Crime and Fire

Assault and Harassment Incidents Reported at Lower Mac Middle School

The following arrest information was supplied by the Pennsylvania State Police at Fogelsville. It does not indicate a conviction.

The Pennsylvania State Police at Fogelsville recently reported these Lower Macungie incidents: Charged: Two 16- and 17-year-old girls from Breinigsville with retail theft from Kohl's, 6900 Hamilton Blvd.; Jan. 24 with taking $81 and $43 in merchandise without paying, police said. Harassment: Reported Jan. 22 by an unidentified 44-year-old man from Macungie; a man unknown to him pushed the victim at the Giant supermarket, 7150 Hamilton Blvd. following a verbal argument, police said; no report of injury. Charged: Jonathan Andrew Perez, 26, of Harrisburg; Jan. 17 with retail theft at Wal-Mart, 1091 Mill Creek Road; cut open three DVD packages and attempted to conceal the disks and leave the store without paying, police said; no value given. …

• Photos (1)

Find the Hornet

Where was Vespa Last Week?

We know now that he's a "Green" hornet, but which recycling bins was he visiting?

Where was Vespa this week? Obviously he believes in recycling since he's on a Paper Retriever bin. Or maybe he's just partial to the EHS's green and gold. In any case, this week Vespa is at Lower Macungie Middle School. Stop back Tuesday to see where he'll be next week!

• Photos (1)