Time-honored tradition: Yough students drive tractors to school

Students drive various makes of farm tractors Friday along Lowber Road in Sewickley Township toward Yough Senior High School. . Though not a district-sanctioned event, students bring their farm tractors to school one Friday each spring — dubbed ‘Tractor Day’ — to celebrate the end of the year, a tradition that has spanned several decades. The district of about 1,800 students encompasses 77 square miles with several rural communities and farms. Seniors graduate on June 2 this year.

Students drive various makes of farm tractors Friday along Lowber Road in Sewickley Township toward Yough Senior High School. . Though not a district-sanctioned event, students bring their farm tractors to school one Friday each spring — dubbed ‘Tractor Day’ — to celebrate the end of the year, a tradition that has spanned several decades. The district of about 1,800 students encompasses 77 square miles with several rural communities and farms. Seniors graduate on June 2 this year.

Yough Senior High School seniors CJ Dunn (left) and Paige Kowalski ride on a John Deere along Lowber Road in Sewickley Township Friday. Though not a district-sanctioned event, students bring their farm tractors to school one Friday each spring — dubbed ‘Tractor Day’ — to celebrate the end of the year, a tradition that has spanned several decades. The district of about 1,800 students encompasses 77 square miles with several rural communities and farms. Seniors graduate on June 2 this year.

Yough Senior High School junior Hunter Bannister drives a Farmall tractor on Lowber Road in Sewickley Township on Friday. Though not a district-sanctioned event, students bring their farm tractors to school one Friday each spring — dubbed ‘Tractor Day’ — to celebrate the end of the year, a tradition that has spanned several decades. The district of about 1,800 students encompasses 77 square miles with several rural communities and farms. Seniors graduate on June 2 this year.

Yough Senior High School seniors Isabella Vinoski (left) and Ashlynn Radziwon sit atop their Farmall and International tractors at Bruno Field in Sewickley Township on Friday in preparation for ‘Tractor Day.’ Though not a district-sanctioned event, students bring their farm tractors to the high school one Friday each spring to celebrate the end of the year, a tradition that has spanned several decades. The district of about 1,800 students encompasses 77 square miles with several rural communities and farms. Seniors graduate on June 2 this year.