As spring sports get underway at East Palestine High School in Ohio, organizers are trying to create normalcy for student-athletes while cleanup from the February train derailment.
There's the East Palestine High School baseball team learning the finer points of baserunning at one edge of Reid Memorial Stadium. At the other, a handful of sprinters dart through the mild March air, the blue parachutes attached to their waists mushrooming behind them as they pick up speed.
Ohio Attorney General Yost announces lawsuit against Norfolk Southern for toxic train derailment RELATED: Ohio AG's Office suing Norfolk Southern over East Palestine toxic train derailment Nearly a dozen schools have pulled out of the series of invitational track meets East Palestine hosts. While Pavkovich stressed he’s not criticizing any school that opts not to come, he also pointed out that the school has provided a link to the results of the Environmental Protection Agency's daily air, water and soil tests in an effort to allay health concerns.
While Elliott believes East Palestine might not be the cleanest place in the world at the moment, he also doesn't have much of a choice. He can't tell you how safe it is. He can tell you this is his last chance to stand on a field next to his friends before the next chapter of his life begins.
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