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The Student Newspaper of Dallastown Area High School in Dallastown, PA, since 1929.
The Student News Site of Dallastown Area High School

The Beacon

The Student News Site of Dallastown Area High School

The Beacon

Navarro's plaque is kept in the back gym lobby. The plaque reads "2024 PTFCA All State".

A New Face in The Trophy Case

Jane Shearer, Reporter April 11, 2025

Heart pounding at the line, the gun about to go off, but this wasn't any regular race for Leah Navarro. It was the PIAA State cross country championship race. Navarro knew that she would need to stay...

Wunderlich is now on the sidelines helping the Wildcats boys soccer team as he begins his coaching career.

From Pitch to Pedagogy

Owen Shultz and Austin Keja November 14, 2024

Once he walked the halls of Dallastown and was a soccer star on the field.  He’s back now as a teacher and a coach. 22-year-old Gabe Wunderlich, who graduated from the halls of Dallastown, returned...

Coach Morgan White talks to the varsity team at half time of the Dallastown vs. Red Lion game.

New Soccer Coach Isn’t New to D-Town

Morgan Good, Reporter September 19, 2024

Dallastown girls soccer team is suited up and ready for the season, but this is a unique year. Not only are the freshmen new, but the head coach is as well. Morgan White, a 2007 Dallastown graduate,...

Freshmen Anna Roperti (33), Ella Zorbaugh (4) and Emmerson Markel (8) standing for The Star-Spangled Banner holding each other's pinkies, which the team does at every game to symbolize they are united."

Rising Stars

Laura Pottman, Reporter October 26, 2023

In late August, DHS welcomed the Class of 2027, as well as new competition, to the turf. Anna Roperti, Ella Zorbaugh and Emmerson Markel are a few new faces to Dallastown varsity field hockey. This...

Checking in On Fall Sports

Taylor Hicks, Reporter September 23, 2022

Dallastown fall sports teams are already mid-way through their seasons. Take a look at each of the fall sports teams to see their accomplishments from last year and their expectations for the 2022-23 school...

Dallastown football went 6-4 this past season with Levi Murphy as the varsity offensive line coach. He hopes to have even more success next season as he becomes the new head coach.

Murphy’s Mentality

Sophia Caltagirone, Reporter March 28, 2022

When it comes to football the execution on the field is vital, yet what the players do behind the scenes is equally as significant to making a team be successful.  Dallastown’s new head coach, Levi...

The Dallastown Golf team had a successful season as league champions, county champions and district champions.

Golf Goes for Gold

Morgan O’Neill, Reporter December 20, 2021

Dallastown has always had a strong and competitive golf team, but this season proved to be record breaking.  After winning a YAIAA league title, their first District III team title, and a fifth-place...

The Field Hockey team celebrating after head coach Jeri Myers 500 win this season.

With the End of an Era, Comes Success

Kelsey Jacobson, Reporter December 28, 2018

Most people would see the end of an almost 40-year coaching career to be the final chapter, a bittersweet ending marking the end of an era. But the 2018 field hockey season was filled with exceptional...

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