Tag archive for ‘Mountain View’
Mountain View positions in jeopardy (0)
2/23/11 •
BY VIRGINIA CODY Correspondent Mountain View School Board voted 6-1 to authorize its superintendent to go to the State Department of Education with a recommendation of possibly cutting positions for 2011-12 to reflect continuing enrollment declines. Superintendent Andrew Chichura said, “There will be some alterations and curtailments. They may affect some elementary positions, some high [...]
Montrose tops Elk Lake, Trail (0)
2/01/11 •
Montrose’s boys’ basketball team grabbed a 45-28 win at Elk Lake on Saturday night and a 50-46 victory over Lackawanna Trail on the road on Thursday evening. On Saturday, the Meteors got ahead 8-6 after the first quarter and paced the Warriors 14-7 in the second to lead 22-13 at halftime. In the third quarter, [...]
Johnson hits 1,000 points for MU (0)
1/19/11 •
Misericordia University senior Robbie Johnson scored his 1,000th career point as the Cougar men’s basketball team defeated Manhattanville 72-58, Saturday in the Anderson Center in Dallas. Johnson, a Mountain View graduate, shot a red-hot 9-of-10 from the field for a game-high 21 points. After scoring just three points in a victory over DeSales on Wednesday, [...]
Mountain View votes to keep budget in line (0)
1/19/11 •
BY VIRGINIA CODY Correspondent The Mountain View School Board voted 6-3 Monday night to to keep its budget in line by not increasing school taxes by more than 1.9 percent. That is the maximum allowable index the state allows Mountain View without laying out its full budget to the public this early in the budget [...]
MV board discusses budget options (0)
1/12/11 •
BY VIRGINIA CODY Mountain View School Board discussed its 2011-12 budget options for a prelliminary general fund budget of $17.9 million at a work session Monday night. Business manager James Mirabelli said, “That’s $580,098 more than last year” and attributed the increase to increases in salary and benefits for school employees. “This is just to [...]
Rachel’s Challenge gets a chain reaction (0)
12/22/10 •
BY PAT FARNELLI Rachel Joy Scott had premonitions that she would die young. She also was convinced she would make a major impact on the world. As the first victim of the Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999, Rachel has fulfilled her destiny. Her legacy, Rachel’s Challenge, has become a national movement to [...]
Mt. View directors change meeting time (0)
12/08/10 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER The Mountain View School Board is cutting back its public meetings by half in the New Year and also making them an hour earlier. Starting in January, the board will have one public voting meeting at 7 p.m. the third Monday of the month and one public work session the second [...]
Changes coming to Mt. View board meetings (0)
12/01/10 •
BY STACI WILSON Mountain View school board meetings will see some changes in 2011. Board members decided at the Nov. 22 meeting to hold only one public voting meeting per month. That meeting will be held the third Monday of each month. In preparation of that meeting, the board will meet at an open, public, [...]
Eagles fall in state tourney (0)
11/17/10 •
BY ASHLEY TEATUM Times-Shamrock Writer When Mountain View boys soccer coach Roger Thomas addressed his players after Saturday’s PIAA Class A quarterfinal, he reminded them of how far they had come. That the season was measured by more than just the Eagles’ run through the playoffs, which ended Saturday in a 2-0 loss to South [...]
Mountain View U-14 team captures 5-county cup (0)
11/17/10 •
The Mountain View U-14 boys soccer team went undefeated this year posting a 13-0 record. The team competes in the fall NEPSAY soccer league. Mountain View beat teams from the region including teams from Scranton, Valley View, North Pocono, Lakeland, Forest City, Carbondale, Elk Lake, Dunmore, Wallenpaupak, Mount Pocono, and Tunkhannock. The 5-county cup was [...]