St. Rose to include middle school next year

EPHRATA — St. Rose of Lima Catholic School is expanding to include middle school. The program, called St. Rose Preparatory, will hold its first classes this fall. It’s been a long time coming, said St. Rose Principal Amy Krautscheid. “We tried to do this about 15 years ago,” Krautscheid said, “We didn’t have the interest and the numbers, and everything kept shutting down, and we just figured it wasn’t God’s will. So we tabled it.” Krautscheid retired for a few years and returned four years ago, she said, and found things had changed.