Saucon Valley High School’s team will advance to the two-part state competition in May. Saucon Valley also won last year’s county event, and placed 13th at the state contest.

School board contests, once an unheralded part of off-year elections, have swelled with challengers in recent years, and competitive races in this spring’s primaries are focused on maintaining ...

Given a choice between running a cross country race in Boston in late November and San Diego in early December, most athletes would have their ticket west punched faster than you can say “California ...