The Monroe High School Council will be accepting donations tomorrow night to help a schoolmate with a visual impairment to purchase a new set of glasses. Here, MHS Student Council members (from left) Anna Tartarian, Brianna Brown, Madi Farris and Matthew Huntoon take a quick break from preparing signs to publicize the effort. Monroe High Freshman Abrielle Krupa suffers from Dominant O...
The Monroe High School Equestrian Team has ridden its way into the state championships for the first time ever. With its “Reserve Champion” placement last weekend in Region E, the team has qualified to compete in the state championships in Midland, Oct. 15-18. The Monroe High School team is the only Monroe County team to qualify for the state championships. &nb...
“Pupil Count Day,” where all public schools in Michigan tally the number of students attending their schools, is next Wednesday, October 7. It always is important to be in school for learning but on October 7, the financial implications are important, too, because each student translates into state funding for the district they ar...
The Monroe High School Homecoming is being observed all week long with events every day of the week leading up to Friday and Saturday. The Trojans will play Bedford at 7 p.m., Friday, in the Homecoming game, which is preceded by the Homecoming Parade at 5 p.m., which leaves from Monroe Middle School, heads north along S. Monroe St., and then to the K of C Hall on W. Front St. At half-...
The Tools for School promotion of Old National Bank is nearing the end – 11:59 p.m., Wednesday, September 30 – and some Monroe schools are bunched in near the top. That’s the good news but the story here is that you have to make sure the people who can vote for four your schools and “like” Old national Bank’s Facebook page do those things before the deadl...
Manor Elementary School art teacher Melissa Cramer is among those artists from around the world to be selected to display her art at the 2015 ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Mi., running through October 11. She is one of only 1,550 artists in the world chosen to participate. Ms. Cramer’s display is entitled “Women at Work: Viewing with an op...
When we posted the message that Monroe High School Principal Sandy Kreps shared with her students on 9-11 on our district Facebook page, no one could have predicted that a record number of more than 45,000 people would have seen the piece and several hundreds would have shared it to their own Facebook pages, furthering its reach. It was the most popular posting in the three-year history of ...
Parents of fifth graders. Your child has the opportunity to take instrumental music lessons starting this year. An informational meeting is set for you at 7 p.m., Tuesday, September 22, at Monroe Middle School. Please check out the attached signup and information sheet.
Some 145 students who lacked a high school diploma used the services of the Learning Bank’s Turning Point Program during the 2014-15 school year, as the Learning Bank continues to provide year-round programming for adult education students and increased instructional support for evening students. However, the impressive statistic is th...
Here is a date to circle on your calendar – Tuesday, October 6. The Monroe Middle School Football team will host First Responder Appreciation Day when they host Bedford Junior High School. Kickoff at Navarre Field is set for 4 p.m. The football team is hosting the appreciation day to honor the unwavering dedication of service to the City of Monroe and Monroe County by the ...