High School Sports Take Center Court with Earl Vaughan Jr.

For the first time in Up & Coming Weekly’s 21-year publishing history, we have assembled a tour de force of community athletic talent to create a new, exciting and entertaining section in our weekly newspaper, titled, High School Highlights. As the name implies, this weekly section will focus on showcasing Cumberland County’s “up & coming” high school athletes, their schools, coaches, programs, teachers and events.
We are equally excited and proud to announce that no one is more talented or qualified to address these topics than our Senior Sports Editor, Earl Vaughan, Jr. We are extremely excited about having Earl on board to develop this new addition to Up & Coming Weekly. Earl has a genuine passion for this community, high school sports and for supporting developing young athletes. No one appreciates the value of education and high school sports more than Earl. He will be bringing a new dimension to showcasing these high school athletes by recognizing those who also excel in academics. High School Highlights will showcase these “Scholar Athletes” each week.

With this new section comes a very important educational initiative: Newspapers in Education. Unfortunately, today 33 percent of our students read below grade level. Illiteracy among children is increasing at a breakneck speed. Under this program, high school students of Cumberland County will be encouraged not only to read but to write. In addition to providing Up & Coming Weekly newspapers in bulk to all the area high schools each week, the students will be able to submit for publication news, views, poetry and general interest articles on topics relevant to them as young adults.

In support of Earl’s high school scholar-athlete program, Up & Coming Weekly will be partnering with Don Koonce and the DK Sports crew during their weekly radio broadcasts for the 2017 football season. Up & Coming Weekly will be advertising and promoting High School Highlights where DK Sports will be radio broadcasting their popular Games of the Week.

Hey, our newspaper is getting bigger and better as our community becomes bigger and better. Thank you for your support and for reading Up & Coming Weekly.