The Monroe High School Boy's Basketball game against the Saline Hornets tonight will be broadcast live at 7 p.m. tonight on monroecountyradio.com. Jeff Yorkey and Jarod Calkins will handle play-by-play of tonight's game. To listen to the game, just go to monroecountyradio.com and click on Listen Live.
Due to icy and snowy road conditions in the district, there will be no school for Monroe Public Schools today, Thursday, February 25. In addition, kid’s club at Riverside and Custer will be cancelled for today and all after-school activities are cancelled, too, including all Community Education classes and activities. Repeating there will be no school today for Monroe Public Schools, Thursday, February 25. Thank you and have a nice and safe day.
The Monroe Public Schools Board of Education has asked the school district’s administration to look into the possibility of razing the former South Monroe Townsite School and selling the property on which the school now stands. The school has been used in recent years for the Head Start program of the Monroe County Intermediate School District and for Monroe Virtual High School. However, at the end of this school year, Head Start will be moved to Arborwood North Elementary School, leaving the school vacant. A final decision on the future of the building could be made by the school board by the end of March.
There will be a half-day of classes for Monroe Public Schools students on Wednesday, February 24. Pre-school at Riverside will operate on its normal schedule, and kid’s club at Custer and Riverside will operate on the regular schedules, too. Once again, students will have a half-day of classes on Wednesday, February 24.
There’s an old joke that goes, “Hey, how do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.” For four Monroe Middle School musicians, the question is similar. “Hey how do you get to Detroit’s Orchestra Hall? Practice.” And practice they did which paid off big when four members of the Monroe Middle School Band were selected to perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Middle School Honors Band. The four (left to right) -- Lauren Lebeck, Chloe Spooneybarger, (both flute) Lauren Custer and Sydney Kuhlman (both clarinet)—will perform at Orchestra Hall in Detroit on Monday, March 21. The DSO’s Honors Band is made up of selected students from around Michigan. To have four students from one school is quite an honor.
The efforts of the Monroe High School Student Council and students/staff at Waterloo Elementary School were captured in a photo essay in Sunday's Monroe News. What a great thing they did for taking water to Flint residents. Copy and paste the link below to your browser to read the story.
http://www.monroenews.com/news/20160221/we-had-to-do-something
The Monroe Public Schools Board of Education will hold a workshop meeting at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23. Two items will be on the agenda – a review of the district budget for the current school year, and a discussion of options for South Monroe Townsite School which is scheduled to close at the end of this school year. Workshop meetings are open to the general public but the board cannot take official action at the meeting.
