Baldwin HS Student Newspaper Again Wins National Honor

BALDWIN, PA - It’s become a routine that’s almost boring - almost. For the seventh consecutive year, the Baldwin High School student newspaper The Purbablite has won a first place designation in an American Scholastic Press Association contest. The competition covered print editions of the paper from the 2017-18 school year.

Contest judges review high school newspapers from across the country and place them into three divisions: third place for developing newspapers, second place for solid papers with room for improvement and first place papers.

Keith Harrison, the Baldwin teacher who has been the paper’s faculty adviser for the past seven years, deflected credit for the achievement.

“As always, we are following the tradition of strong showings in this contest started two decades ago by Christine Kondrot, longtime Purbalite sponsor from way back in the day,” he said in a district release. “We are only able to do so because the Purb kids continue to be some of our school's most awesome rock stars.”

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