Carbondale Area Junior\/Senior High School students Rahi Patel and Gracie McDermott took first and second place, respectively, in the high school division in the 2026 Holocaust Essay Contest, sponsored by the Holocaust Education Resource Center in Scranton. The essay contest was open to middle school and high school students in the counties of Lackawanna, Wayne, Pike, Monroe and Susquehanna.<\/p>\n
Patel was awarded $1,000 and McDermott was awarded $500 for their efforts. Winning essays will also be published in the Jewish community newspaper \u201cThe Reporter\u201d and The Scranton Times-Tribune. Contestants began submitting their essays on March 30, with the last day of submission on May 27. The panel found the entries to be well-written, heartfelt and sincere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carbondale Area Junior\/Senior High School students Rahi Patel and Gracie McDermott took first and second place, respectively, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3099,3101,201,28,178,180,179,3098,3053,17677],"class_list":["post-311625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-carbondale","tag-fell-township","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-upvalley","tag-valley-advantage","tag-valley-advantage-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}