Power outage closes Camp Curtin Academy in Harrisburg

Camp Curtin Academy closes due to power outage

HE STILL HAS A CONCERN ABOUT THAT BILL. GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY. AT 6:00 ON MATT BARCARO, I’M KATELYN SMITH. HERE IS WHAT WE ARE FOLLOWING ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY THIS MORNING. NEWS EIGHT’S GABRIELLE THOMAS IS IN DAUPHIN COUNTY WITH AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK INSIDE A SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP SCHOOL THAT IS DEALING WITH OVERCROWDED CLASSROOMS AND NEWS 8 JACOB HUNZIKER IN LANCASTER COUNTY. REPORTING ON THE OPPOSITION TO THE PLANS TO DEMOLISH AN HISTORIC BUILDING IN EPHRATA. WE’RE ALSO TAKING A LIVE LOOK IN MIFFLIN COUNTY. LOOK AT THAT. THAT IS SNOW ON THE GRASS. WE HAD SEEN SNOW. I THINK YOU CAN STILL SEE IT ON THE THE THE SIDES THERE OF THE HIGHWAY. IF YOU’VE BEEN WATCHING THE SHOW THIS MORNING, YOU SAW THAT THERE WAS SOME MORE PRONOUNCED SNOW ON 322 EARLIER, BUT THAT IS STARTING TO CLEAR. BUT STILL, THERE IS SOME SNOW IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. I THINK MATT’S EXCITED, VERY EXCITED. I WANT YOU ALL TO SEE IT. HE’S LIKE SNOW. IT’S NOT SNOW. THERE’S CERTAINLY RAIN, CHRISTINE. IT IS CERTAINLY WET. THIS MORNING ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. YOU HAVE TO GET UP IN ELEVATION IN MIFFLIN COUNTY, ESPECIALLY AS YOU HEAD FROM MILROY UP TO STATE COLLEGE. AND THOSE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. THAT’S WHERE WE SAW SOME SNOW ON THE ROAD OVERNIGHT. BUT OTHERWISE, THAT SNOW HAS COME TO AN END. RIGHT NOW, THE ROADS ARE CLEARING UP NICELY IN MIFFLIN COUNTY AT ELEVATION, AND OTHERWISE IT’S JUST BEEN MAINLY WET ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. WE’RE JUST SEEING THE BACK EDGE OF RAIN COME THROUGH CHAMBERSBURG AND GETTYSBURG. IT WILL APPROACH YORK SOON AND IT SHOULD BE OUT OF LANCASTER COUNTY BETWEEN 7 AND 8 A.M. TEMPERATURE CHECK. WE ARE IN THE UPPER 30S TO NEAR 40 DEGREES FOR MOST OF THE AREA, BUT USE CAUTION FROM LEWISTOWN OVER TOWARDS SELINSGROVE AS YOU SEE TEMPERATURES TEETERING RIGHT AROUND THAT FREEZING. MARK 12, OUR FORECAST TODAY. THE CLOUDS, THEY HANG TOUGH THROUGH THE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON, BUT I DO THINK WE COULD SEE SOME PEEKS OF SUNSHINE. REGINA I’M HOPEFUL, OPTIMISTIC FOR A FEW PEEKS OF SUN LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING, BUT OVERALL 46, THAT’S A LITTLE COOL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. I SAY WE ALL JUST GO INTO LIKE A POETRY SESSION. THE SUN COME OUT, COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE. WHAT DID YOU SAY EARLIER? WHEREFORE ART THOU? ART THOU SUNSHINE? WE NEED YOU. WE MISS YOU. BUT IT’S OKAY. WE CAN. WE CAN LAST A COUPLE OF DAYS. ALL RIGHT, CHRISTINE, THANK YOU. IT’S WEDNESDAY, EVERYONE. 602 ON THE CLOCK. GOOD MORNING TO YOU. HOPEFULLY YOU’RE HAVING A NICE MORNING GETTING THROUGH THE WORKWEEK JUST FINE. RIGHT NOW. WE DO HAVE A CRASH THAT WE’RE MONITORING. THIS IS AN ADAMS COUNTY ROUTE 30, BUCHANAN VALLEY ROAD THERE IN FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP. LOOKS LIKE TRAFFIC FLOWING JUST FINE, BUT JUST IT COULD SLOW YOU DOWN A LITTLE BIT. WANTED TO GIVE YOU A HEADS UP NOW, WHERE THERE IS A SLOWDOWN IS IN DAUPHIN COUNTY. NOW, THIS IS ALONG 322. WANTED TO SHOW YOU FROM OUR CAMERA EXACTLY HOW THAT’S LOOKING RIGHT NOW. THEY’RE ON LINGLESTOWN ROAD EXIT C. NOT TOO BAD. IT’S JUST VERY SLOW. PEOPLE ARE DRIVING WITH A LOT OF CAUTION THERE. AND WE SHOWED YOU THIS AT THE TOP OF 6:00. THE SNOW THERE IN MIFFLIN COUNTY. JUST BE CAREFUL. IF YOU’RE DRIVING NORTH. IT COULD BE A LITTLE BIT SKETCHY IN SOME PARTS. WE’LL HAVE ANOTHER UPDATE A LITTLE BIT. WE ARE GETTING OUR FIRST LOOK THIS MORNING INSIDE A SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP SCHOOL IN DAUPHIN COUNTY AS IT CONTINUES TO DEAL WITH OVERCROWDING IN CLASSROOMS. SO VOTERS IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT VOTED DOWN A REFERENDUM ON ELECTION DAY THAT WOULD HAVE HELPED GET MONEY FOR A NEW SCHOOL. SO WHAT DOES THE DISTRICT DO NOW? WELL, NEWS EIGHT’S GABRIELLE THOMAS IS GIVING US AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK. SHE’S JOINING US LIVE IN SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP WITH WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE STUDENTS THERE. GOOD MORNING, MATT AND KATELYN. WELL, THE SUPERINTENDENT SAYS THE DISTRICT HAS REACHED FULL CAPACITY IN ITS CLASSROOM, AND I WENT TO GO VIEW THOSE LEARNING CONDITIONS YESTERDAY. AND THEY’RE MAKING SPACE WITH WHAT THEY HAVE. SARA LINDEMUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS JUST ONE OF THE SCHOOLS EXPERIENCING A RECORD NUMBER OF STUDENTS RIGHT NOW. WE STILL DO HAVE TEACHERS IN HALLWAYS, AND THEY’RE STILL TEACHING OUR CHILDREN TO READ IN THE HALLWAY. WE’RE PLEASED WITH THE DEVOTION OF OUR STAFF. EVEN THOUGH THE REFERENDUM FAILED. OUR STAFF IS JUST AS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING A QUALITY EDUCATION FOR OUR CHILDREN. THE SUPERINTENDENT, TAMARA WILLIS, SAYS THEY EVEN HAD TO CREATE A SECOND CAFETERIA AREA AND A LOBBY BECAUSE THERE WASN’T ENOUGH ROOM. AND WHAT WAS ONCE A CLOSET NOW SERVES AS AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ROOM FOR STUDENTS. WE HAVE 20 CLASSROOMS THAT SIT IN APPROXIMATELY FIVE TRAILERS ACROSS THE DISTRICT, AND THEY DO HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE INTO THE ELEMENTS FOR LUNCH EVERY DAY. AND THAT’S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE WANTED TO BRING THEM INTO A LONG TERM BUILDING, BECAUSE IT IS. IT’S NOT A SITUATION THAT YOU WOULD WANT YOUR CHILD TO BE IN. DOCTOR TAMARA WILLIS SAYS THEY STILL WANT TO BUILD A NEW SCHOOL, AND SHE WILL PUSH FOR A REFERENDUM IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR FUTURE ELECTIONS. BUT FOR RIGHT NOW, THEY’RE HOPING TO FREE UP MORE SPACE. COMING UP AT 630, I’LL TELL YOU WHERE THEY PLAN TO HOUSE THOSE STUDENTS. REPORTING LIVE HERE IN SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP. I’M GABRIEL THOMAS. WGAL NEWS EIGHT. ALL RIGHT, GABRIELLE, WE’LL SEE YOU BACK IN ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR. ALSO NOW TO THE TEACHER SHORTAGE THAT IS AFFECTING SCHOOLS ACROSS THE STATE. AND SOLVING THAT PROBLEM HAS PROVEN TO BE A TOUGH ASSIGNMENT. BUT EDUCATORS, LAWMAKERS AND ADVOCATES DO PLAN TO WORK TOGETHER ON IT AGAIN TODAY IN HARRISBURG. THE ORGANIZATION PA NEEDS TEACHERS IS HOLDING ITS FOURTH ANNUAL SUMMIT. THE GROUP SAYS IT WANTS TO COME UP WITH A NEW WAY TO LOOK AT THE ROLE OF A TEACHER, AND ALSO AT TEACHERS SCHEDULES. THAT SUMMIT RUNS FROM 10 TO 3 TODAY, WITH SOME NETWORKING STARTING AS EARLY AS NINE THIS MORNING. IT WILL BE AT THE PENNSYLVANIA TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NETWORK THAT’S ON FLANK DRIVE. TODAY, AN ORGANIZATION WILL BE AT THE STATE CAPITOL URGING LAWMAKERS TO VOTE ON A BIPARTISAN BILL THAT WOULD CALL FOR THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO BE AMENDED. IT WOULD CREATE AN INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION THAT WOULD REDRAW CONGRESSIONAL AND STATE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT MAPS. RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE FIVE PEOPLE, INCLUDING STATE LAWMAKERS, WHO ARE PART OF THE PROCESS TO REDRAW THE MAPS. THE BILL WOULD CALL FOR THE COMMISSION TO GO UP TO 11 MEMBERS. IT WOULD BE A LONG PROCESS, THOUGH, TO CHANGE THE STATE CONSTITUTION. FIRST, LAWMAKERS WOULD HAVE TO PASS THE BILL IN TWO CONSECUTIVE LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS. THEN IT WOULD BE ON VOTERS ELECTION DAY BALLOTS FOR VOTERS TO APPROVE THE NEXT REDISTRICTING IN PENNSYLVANIA IS SCHEDULED FOR 2031 AFTER THE 2030 CENSUS IS TAKEN FAIR. DISTRICTS, PA THAT’S THE ORGANIZATION PUSHING FOR THIS CHANGE. THEY’LL BE AT THE STATE CAPITOL AT 10:00 THIS MORNING. IT’S 606 IN A GROUP IN LANCASTER COUNTY IS OPPOSING A PLAN TO DEMOLISH A HISTORIC MILL IN EPHRATA. THE EPHRATA NATIONAL BANK IS PRESENTING AN APPLICATION AT THE BOROUGH ZONING BOARD TONIGHT TO HAVE THE WENGER FEED MILL REZONED AND THEN KNOCKED DOWN. NEWS EIGHT’S JACOB HUNZIKER JOINS US LIVE FROM EPHRATA WITH BOTH SIDES ARE SAYING AHEAD OF THIS MEETING. JACOB. MATT KATELYN, GOOD MORNING TO BOTH OF YOU. THIS CURRENT DISPUTE BETWEEN THE LANCASTER, THE PRESERVATION TRUST OF LANCASTER COUNTY AND THE EFFORT OF NATIONAL BANK ALL STEMS OVER WHAT TO DO. AS YOU MENTIONED, WITH THAT OLD WENGER FEED MILL BUILDING, THAT’S ALREADY WHERE EPHRATA NATIONAL BANK IS CURRENTLY LOCATED, HERE ON EAST MAIN STREET IN EPHRATA BOROUGH. SIMPLY PUT, THE BANK SAYS THAT THE CURRENT SPACE JUST DOESN’T MEET THEIR NEEDS ANYMORE. THEY NEED MORE SIZE. THEY NEED MORE SPACE, WHICH COMES WITH THE DEMANDS OF AN EXPANDING BUSINESS. IT HAS BECOME EASIER AND MORE COST EFFECTIVE, ACCORDING TO THE BANK, TO DEMOLISH THE BUILDING AND START OVER WITH A NEW ONE FROM SCRATCH. MEANWHILE, THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION ARGUES THAT THE BUILDING IS RICH WITH HISTORICAL IMPACTS THAT ARE TIED TO THE COMMUNITY. THEY’D RATHER SEE THE BANK REPURPOSE THE SPACE AND KEEP THE MAIN STRUCTURE OF THE BUILDING AS IS. THAT DATES BACK TO ITS CREATION WAY BACK BEFORE 1940. WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS USE IT AS A HISTORICAL TRIBUTE TO THE BANKING INDUSTRY AND EPHRATA, SPECIFICALLY EPHRATA NATIONAL BANK’S HISTORY, WHICH HAS BEEN JUST AS IMPORTANT TO THE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH AND GREATER COMMUNITY SINCE OUR FOUNDING IN 1881. IDEALLY, I WOULD, YOU KNOW, LOVE EVERYBODY THAT OWNS A HISTORIC BUILDING TO WANT TO CARE FOR THEM AND PRESERVE THEM. AND THAT DOES NOT ALWAYS HAPPEN. BUT I THINK THAT THERE IS A POINT WHERE THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT OUTWEIGHS THE PRIVATE INTEREST, ESPECIALLY IF THE BUILDING HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AS BEING IMPORTANT. IS A ZONING MEETING TONIGHT FOR THE ZONING COMMISSION TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY ARE OKAY WITH ALLOWING EPHRATA NATIONAL BANK TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT PLAN. DEMOLITION THAT’S GOING TO BE TAKING PLACE AT 7:00 TONIGHT. LIVE IN EPHRATA THIS MORNING. JACOB HUNZIKER FOR WGAL NEWS EIGHT. THANKS, JACOB. A LANCASTER TEENAGER CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE WILL HAVE HIS CASE CONTINUE IN LANCASTER COUNTY COURT. THE DA’S OFFICE SAYS THAT JAQUAN WILLIAMS, WHO IS 16, WAIVED HIS PRELIMINARY HEARING. THEY SAY THAT HE’S ACCUSED OF SHOOTING ANOTHER PERSON IN THE FACE NEAR COLTON PARK ON WEST STRAWBERRY STREET LAST MONTH. POLICE SAY THAT PERSON WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND NEEDED SURGERY ON THEIR JAW. AND NOW LANCASTER TOWNSHIP POLICE SAY JAQUAN WILLIAMS FATHER IS ALSO BEING CHARGED. POLICE SAY 39 YEAR-OLD CALVIN WILLIAMS WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AFTER THEY SAY HE SENT DOZENS OF MESSAGES AND PHONE CALLS TO THE PERSON HIS SON IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND TO THAT PERSON’S FAMILY, THREATENING TO KILL THEM AND BURN DOWN THEIR HOME, ACCORDING TO POLICE. CALVIN WILLIAMS WAS ARRESTED AT HIS HOME IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, AND IS ALREADY BEHIND BARS AT THE LANCASTER COUNTY PRISON IN DAUPHIN COUNTY. STILTON MAYOR SARAH DENT IS ANNOUNCING WHO WILL BE THE INTERIM POLICE CHIEF WHEN THE CURRENT POLICE CHIEF RETIRES SOON. DENT SAYS THAT SHOCKEY LACEY WILL SERVE AS THE POLICE CHIEF STARTING DECEMBER 1ST. CURRENT POLICE CHIEF IN STEELTON BILL SCHAUB IS SET TO RETIRE DECEMBER 2ND AFTER 30 YEARS OF SERVICE. WELL, A NEW STUDY IS REVEALING MORE PEOPLE ARE FALLING BEHIND ON THEIR UTILITY BILLS, ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTURY FOUNDATION. PAST DUE BALANCES TO UTILITY COMPANIES JUMPED NEARLY 10% FROM LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR. IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN APRIL AND JUNE, THE STUDY SAYS. THE INCREASE OVERLAPS WITH A 12% JUMP IN MONTHLY ENERGY BILL COSTS DURING THAT SAME PERIOD. SO HERE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, UGI SAYS IT’S SEEN A 9% INCREASE IN CUSTOMERS WHO ARE MORE THAN 30. EXCUSE ME, MORE THAN 90 DAYS LATE FROM LAST OCTOBER TO THIS OCTOBER. I THINK FOLKS ARE REALLY MAKING TOUGH DECISIONS ON IF THEY’RE GOING TO FEED THEIR FAMILY, IF THEY’RE GOING TO KEEP THEIR LIGHTS ON. WHAT YOU’RE SEEING RIGHT NOW IS THERE IS PROBABLY SOME IMPACT OF PEOPLE NOT GETTING LIGHT HEAT FUNDS, UGI SAYS IT IS CHIPPING IN $500,000 TO SOMETHING CALLED OPERATION SHARE THAT PROVIDES ENERGY ASSISTANCE GRANTS TO QUALIFIED CUSTOMERS WHO ARE HAVING TROUBLE PAYING THEIR HEATING BILLS. IN ALL, THE COMPANY SAYS IT’S

A Dauphin County school will be closed today due to a power outage.The Harrisburg School District posted the following message on its Facebook page Wednesday morning: “Attention Camp Curtin Academy and Steele School Parents, Guardians, and Staff, This is an important school update for Wednesday, November 19, 2025. Due to the power outage at Camp Curtin Academy, school will be closed today. The power at Steele School has been restored. Steele School students and staff will attend school as scheduled. Thank you.”Stay with WGAL for updates.

HARRISBURG, Pa. —

A Dauphin County school will be closed today due to a power outage.

The Harrisburg School District posted the following message on its Facebook page Wednesday morning:

“Attention Camp Curtin Academy and Steele School Parents, Guardians, and Staff, This is an important school update for Wednesday, November 19, 2025. Due to the power outage at Camp Curtin Academy, school will be closed today. The power at Steele School has been restored. Steele School students and staff will attend school as scheduled. Thank you.”

Stay with WGAL for updates.