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Wearing his cap and gown at Slippery Rock University’s commencement ceremony, Joe Coudriet said something many college graduates have said upon earning their degree: “It ...
May 18, 2024 Education
After being named a 2024 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School, students in each classroom at Rowan Elementary School planted seeds and plants around the build...
May 18, 2024 Education
ADAMS TWP — There are only a few school days left on the calendar, and Mars Centennial School marked the occasion with its annual field day Friday, May 17. Fifth- and six...
May 18, 2024 Education
ADAMS TWP — Board directors at Mars Area School District failed to renew membership for the Pennsylvania School Board Association at a meeting Tuesday, May 14. A tied vot...
May 17, 2024 Education
BUTLER TOWNSHIP — Butler County Community College’s board of trustees unanimously agreed to adopt a policy from the Department of Defense regarding tuition assistance for...
May 17, 2024 Education
FORWARD TWP — The board of supervisors approved a motion Tuesday, May 14, to send a proposal letter to Seneca Valley School District asking for a “student adviser” from t...
May 16, 2024 Government
Mars Area High School’s jazz ensemble and show choir will host various performances as part of their Chorus Cabaret & Night of Jazz at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, in the au...
May 16, 2024 Education
Discussion around Lawrence Crossing campus continues
Discussion around Lawrence Crossing campus continues
May 16, 2024 Education
ADAMS TWP — Mars Area School District’s board is discussing conducting an updated population study that could help inform designs for the district’s planned elementary sc...
May 16, 2024 Education
BUTLER TWP — For former EMT rescue technician and firefighter Deborah Hoffman, graduating from Butler County Community College was partly a way to inspire her daughter. H...
May 15, 2024 Education
KARNS CITY — The Karns City Area School Board approved a preliminary 2024-25 budget that does not include a tax increase, but residents in the Butler County portion of th...
May 15, 2024 Education
The Seneca Valley School District board approved the hiring of Cassandra Doggrell as the district’s director of student services during a school board meeting Monday, May...
May 15, 2024 Education
Seneca Valley School District board members approved a $2 million parking lot expansion for its secondary campus at a school board meeting, Monday, May 13, as well as rou...
May 15, 2024 Education
Ehrman Crest Elementary School will welcome a new principal next school year. The Seneca Valley School District board approved the hiring of Bridget Miller during a schoo...
May 15, 2024 Education
The fourth- and fifth-grade science students at St. Wendelin Catholic School in Butler have spent the past four weeks raising baby chickens as part of an embryology exper...
May 15, 2024 Education
KARNS CITY — The Karns City Area School Board closed Sugarcreek Elementary School and received an update on the $24 million expansion project at Chicora Elementary School...
May 15, 2024 Education
Preliminary budget includes 3.474 mill tax increase
Preliminary budget includes 3.474 mill tax increase
May 14, 2024 Education
Mars Area High School students were inducted into the school’s National Honor Society chapter during a ceremony earlier this month. Inductees are juniors Madalynn Balfour...
May 13, 2024 Education
Alivia Miller, a senior at Mars Area High School, participated in the Southwestern PA Career & Technical Education Signing Day last month at PNC Park. Miller was one of f...
May 13, 2024 Education
Paige Lauten, a Mars Area High School freshman, was recently nominated for a 2023-24 Western Pennsylvania Positive High School Athlete Award recognizing positive student ...
May 11, 2024 Education
Mars Area Elementary School fourth-graders who will be attending Mars Area Centennial School in the fall are welcome to participate in a Transition Days program on Monday...
May 11, 2024 Education
JEFFERSON TWP — Knoch School Board approved several work change orders to the district’s high school renovation project during a meeting on Wednesday, May 8 following rec...
May 11, 2024 Education
Knoch School District directors approved the hiring of Pelle Nejman as the new principal of Knoch Middle School during a meeting Wednesday, May 8. For the past two years,...
May 11, 2024 Education
Two seniors at Knoch High School addressed the school board meeting Wednesday, May 8, asking the district to reconsider some of its requirements around the cords and awar...
May 11, 2024 Education
Video production students and SVTV volunteers at Seneca Valley School District won nine awards at Robert Morris University’s annual Digital Media Arts Consortium student ...
May 11, 2024 Education
Seneca Valley School District recently received the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors Youth Award at the PSATS Conference in Hershey after being nomi...
May 11, 2024 Education
BUTLER TWP — Ninety-eight new nurses graduated from the Butler County Community College Shaffer School of Nursing and Allied Health on Thursday, May 9, setting a record f...
May 09, 2024 Education
JEFFERSON TWP — Knoch School District board members approved a preliminary budget for the 2024-25 school year with a 2-mill increase at a meeting on Wednesday, May 8, tha...
May 08, 2024 Education
The renovation project in the Knoch School District ran into another snag when water was briefly shut off to the middle and high schools after the contractor accidentally...
May 07, 2024 Education
CHICAGO — Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday after administrators who had initially adopted a permissive approach sa...
May 07, 2024 National News
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