Hershey

Hershey Middle School, Elementary struck by power outage

Robert Sterner, Advisor
December 20, 2016

A screenshot of the outage map of Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL) indicates that the downed power line will be repaired by 10:30am. The outage caused Derry Township School District to start the elementary school day two hours late. (Broadcaster/Robert Sterner)

A downed power line knocked out power to Hershey Middle School and the Elementary School the morning of Thursday, December 15.

Due to the outage, Hershey Elementary School students will have a two-hour delay, according to Derry Township School District’s Facebook page.
PPL’s power outage map indicated the line would be repaired by 10:30am; power was returned to the DTSD buildings by 8:15.

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Robert Sterner, Advisor

Robert Sterner is The Broadcaster's seventeenth advisor. He has been teaching at Hershey High School for 21 years and has been an assistant coach for the...