Monroe High School track star Stephen Blunt has been named the Region Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year by the Monroe News. So what did he accomplish to earn the honor? According to the Monroe News, “He set a school record in the 100-meter dash. Won the 100 and the 200 in the team state meet, was a Regional champions, won Track Athlete of the Meet honors at the Mason Invi...
Congratulations to Monroe High School Track Coach Mark Scoles who has been named the Monroe County Region Track Coach of the Year by the Monroe News. The Monroe News called the recently concluded track season, “one of the Trojans best seasons.” The Trojans finished third behind Saline and East Kentwood in the Division 1 state finals, their best showing since finishing runn...
A security upgrade at all schools in the Monroe Public Schools district will take a major step forward this summer and be completed in the 2015-2016 school year. The Monroe Public Schools Board of Education June 23 approved spending $127,118 to purchase 300 more security cameras, 100 mounts and three more servers to operate the system which will i...
The Roessler Street Bridge might be closed but the doors are open daily at the Riverside Early Learning Center, 77 N. Roessler St., where Summer Kids Club 2015 is open from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday in the summer. Spots still are available for the current term and this year come with free lunch thanks to a summer program sponsored by the USDA. Summe...
Two entrances to Waterloo Elementary School will be rebuilt over the summer, after action Tuesday night (June 23) by the Monroe Public Schools Board of Education. “Both of these entrances – the south entrance and the southeast entrance – had degraded to the point where they needed to be improved. Summer time is the right time to make the upgrades w...
Two recently graduated Monroe High School seniors have each been chosen to receive a $1,000 Sarkis H. Pashaian Memorial Scholarship. They are Nathan Kueterman and Hunter Towalski, both of whom will be entering engineering programs in college in the fall. Nathan plans to attend Western Michigan University to study aerospace engineering. Hunter plans to attend S...
Julie Everly, who has been a teacher and administrator with Monroe Public Schools for 20 years, has been appointed deputy superintendent of the district with overall responsibility for elementary and secondary education and human resources. She will report to Monroe Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Barry Martin. The new role for Mrs. Everly includes a consolidation...
All children up to age 18 – including all Monroe Public Schools students – will be able to enjoy a free lunch every week day this summer thanks to a program administered locally by the Speckled Frog Early Learning Center. Seven sites throughout the Monroe Public Schools district are hosting the open free lunches, including Monroe High School where the Summer Learning Academy is ...
The Monroe High School Class of 1985 will hold its 30-year class reunion at 6 p.m., Saturday, August 8, at the Toledo Beach Marina, Tickets are only $15 per person and the reunion planning committee would like to hear from you so they can start to get a head count. Contact classmate Kris Rossi at rossik23@sbcglobal.net if you are interested in attending. Make sure, too, that you...