Field trip to PCN office scheduled...now what?

What could more exciting to a group of high school aged, young adults than a trip to the local newspaper?

Watching water drip from a faucet comes to mind. Listening to Grandpa snore would be an option. What about the rip-roaring good time known as insurance seminars?

The list goes on and on, but when Malta High School’s Ashley Pankratz -- who teaches English and Creative Writing -- asked if she could bring a group of students to the offices of the Phillips County News, who was I to say “it will bore them to tears?”

On March 20, these students -- who are on the high school newspaper staff -- wi...