ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (01/27/2012)-- Dr. Sarah Daughtrey, mezzo-oprano and assistant professor of music, and Phyllis Drackley, soprano and Elizabethtown College adjunct faculty member, are featured performers in "An Evening of Opera! Arias, Duets and Trios," at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in Elizabethtown College's Zug Recital Hall. The free faculty recital, sponsored by the College's Department of Fine and Performing Arts-Music Division, ...[more]

Special to the Elizabethtown Journal by Shahd Mansour and Caitlin Setlock The finances of the city of Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, have lately been a controversial topic among politicians, lawyers, and government officials. The city of 50,000 residents has managed to accumulate $300 million in debt. A large part of the debt was the result of a renovation to its ...[more]

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (01/24/2012)-- Amiri Baraka, recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award from The City College of New York and a lifetime achievement award from the Before Columbus Foundation, gives two presentations Wednesday, Feb. 1, at Elizabethtown College. At 11 a.m. the poet presents "Politics, Art and Culture: An Afternoon with Poet Amiri ...[more]

On April 16, 2012, Elizabethtown native Andy Gish will be running the 116th Boston Marathon as a member of the Run For The Memory team, on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Association.  Gish, a 1989 graduate of Elizabethtown Area High School, is currently stationed in the Boston area as an active-duty Navy officer.  His parents, Jay and Rachel, still reside in ...[more]

Subsidies for Green Energy Shannon McNamee and Mark Minisce, Elizabethtown College A common trend in recent years has been to provide incentives for individuals and businesses that choose to go green. A green energy subsidy indicates the government is providing financial assistance to those who choose to invest in limiting their fossil fuel consumption by using solar panels or wind energy. A ...[more]

Latest Boys Basketball Scores Date       Etown    Opponent          Opponent Score 1/19/12       50     Hempfield                  52 1/17/12       75     Lebanon                     65 1/13/12       64     Solanco                      48 1/10/12    ...[more]

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (01/20/2012)-- Arthur "Man" Agee, Jr. visits Elizabethtown College Monday, January 23, to participate in the screening of the documentary "Hoop Dreams," the story of Agee's and William Gates' experience playing for St. Joseph High School in West Chester, Ill., a predominately white high school with an outstanding basketball program. The documentary is part of E-town's classic film festival, ...[more]

January 16: Macaroni Kid is excited to announce that it has come to Elizabethtown! Macaroni Kid is a free weekly e-newsletter and website that highlights all of the great things for kids and their families to do in our community. Under the stewardship of Kimberly Tyson, Middletown-Etown-Hershey Macaroni Kid is poised to quickly become the go to source for ...[more]

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA – (January 9, 2011) – The Diversity Film Festival, hosted by the Elizabethtown College Academic Advising Office, continues this winter. The classic film festival features movies that were among the first to deal with issues of race, gender, immigration and socio-economic stratification. Free, open to the public and closed captioned, the films will be shown on select Monday evenings ...[more]

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (01/07/2012)-- The paintings of Brian Rogers have been described as allegorical, expressive – 'a personal narrative.' Rogers, executive director for Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, brings this "personal narrative" to Hess Gallery at Elizabethtown College Jan. 20 through March 2 in an exhibit simply called "Paintings." The exhibit, open to the public, begins with a reception from 5 to ...[more]