The Post-Gazette does not crow over the errors of other media news. It's too easy to make mistakes, and we know how bad we feel when we make them ourselves.

It is, therefore, a real pleasure when we can help brethren in the business correct a significant error involving a school district in the North Hills -- just in case you missed the apology.

Every year, Newsweek magazine runs a list of top high schools in the United States. But a few weeks ago, the weekly news magazine had to send this note to Hampton School District Superintendent Dr. John Hoover:

"On behalf of Newsweek, please accept my apologies for failing to include Hampton Township High School on the 2009 Newsweek Top High Schools list. This oversight is entirely my fault, and will not happen again.

"I consider you to be on the list in spirit, if not in name. You can consider the school to be ranked No. 1057 this year, which puts the school in the top 4 percent of all U.S. public schools measured this way.

"Hampton ranks just after Liberty High School in Eldersburg, Md. It has an index number of 1,484, a subsidized lunch percentage of 5 and an equity and excellence percentage of 35. You have a splendid AP program. I congratulate you for it."

It was signed by Jay Mathews, the author of the study prepared for the magazine.

This is the third consecutive year Hampton has been included in the Newsweek Top High Schools list.

Congratulations, Hampton.

Historic Harmony, the volunteer historical society and preservation advocate that operates the eight-property Harmony Museum, has launched a fundraising campaign to support care of the cemetery at the Harmony Mennonite meetinghouse.

The organization hopes descendants of Harmony's 19th-century Mennonites will be interested in helping to maintain cemetery grounds and grave markers, but anyone who would like to see the heritage of the area preserved is welcomed. The campaign was suggested by a descendant of local Mennonites and the drive's first contributor.

Harmony was founded in 1804 by German Lutheran Separatists, who, that same year, established a burial ground north of town.

Contributions can be sent to Historic Harmony, Box 524, Harmony, PA 16037, with a notation they are for the Mennonite Cemetery Fund.

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