“I was definitely surprised and not expecting the honor.  We came a long way in winning this for only starting to publish on-line last year.    We’ve been working really hard to get to this point and to get there is amazing,” says Alyssa Zerbe, Features Editor and senior.

The Cardinal Chronicle editors and staffers have been putting in many hours both inside and outside the classroom to create Pine Grove Area’s on-line student news publication. You may have seen them around with cameras and notebooks in hand interviewing and reporting on the latest occurrences in the district. Their work, recently, has been awarded Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s (CSPA) Gold Medalist Honor and All-Columbian Honors.

“I am so proud of the Cardinal Chronicle and what it has achieved so far. The Columbia Gold Medal is an amazing achievement that our program has been able to reach, and it would not have been possible without the dedicated students and teachers helping with the publication. As a past editor, I’m so happy for our program! I feel like I’ve seen this paper grow from nothing to already a trophy-winning program. On to many more awards and medals for the Chronicle,” says Ben Brosius, Class of 2019.

CSPA, which has been in existence since 1925, judges news publications from across the country.  “To be awarded these honors within our first year of publication is absolutely wonderful!  The students have put in so much work with reporting, writing, and incorporating visual elements.  Hard-working does not even being to describe the students in this program, ” says Andrea Hatter, co-adviser.