An overflow crowd turned out Monday to hear the Highlands School Board consider a contract renewal for Superintendent Monique Mawhinney, seven months before her term is set to expire. Close to 100 people crammed into the high school library, with several asking the board to consider the district’s economics, test
A New Kensington-Arnold elementary teacher has been advanced to principal. Brian Heidenreich is the new principal of H.D. Berkey Elementary, the district’s first and second grade school in Arnold. He replaces Nicole Roberts, who retired. Heidenreich starts Thursday at a prorated salary of $84,356. Heidenreich was chosen from six candidates,
The May primary has filled in some, but not all, of the empty ballot spots for the New Kensington-Arnold School Board. While six of the nine board seats are up for election this year, two in each of the district’s three voting regions, only three people were on the primary
A 16-year-old from Arnold died in an exchange of gunfire Sunday in New Kensington, Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli’s office revealed Monday. Divine Warner died at a nearby hospital. According to Ziccarelli’s office, Warner was shot outside, near Valley Royal Court, in an exchange of gunfire with Dylan Walmsley,
The New Kensington-Arnold School District will begin seeking proposals to replace the pedestrian bridges at Valley High School. The twin spans cross Little Pucketa Creek at about the midpoint of the school. One has been closed because of its condition. The school board approved seeking three proposals for the bridges’