The Mehlville School District will be graduating its first class of students from its Early College academy program, which gives eligible high school students in the district the opportunity to earn college credit up to an Associate of Arts simultaneously with their high school degree.
The academy will graduate seven students at the end of this school year: Madison Appel, David Genovese, Alex Parum and Melisa Vilic from Oakville High School, and Aryianna Batie, Hannah Drzewiecki and Myia Warden from Mehlville High School.
Mehlville High and Oakville High students enrolled in the program attend college full time and tuition-free at St. Louis Community College campuses. The courses satisfy both high school and college credit requirements and students can still be involved in athletics, arts and other extracurricular programs at their respective schools.
Meagan Ochoa will be the principal at Oakville Elementary School beginning with the 2021-2022 school year.
The Mehlville School District Board of Education unanimously voted to approve Ochoa’s hiring in a closed session April 29. Several highly qualified candidates applied for the position, the district said, and both staff and parents provided feedback and assisted with interview panels.
Ochoa, the current assistant principal at Bierbaum Elementary, will succeed Kimberly Tooley, who has held the position for three years and is taking another district role. Ochoa takes over July 1.
“Mrs. Ochoa is resourceful, creative, solution-oriented, caring and honest,” Assistant Superintendent Jeff Bresler said in a news release. “She elevates those around her with her positive outlook and always keeps her focus on what is best for students. She’s passionate about building strong family and community relationships that benefit the school community.”
Apr 23, 2021
Kent G. “Stick” Stickler, 85, of Spring Mills, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at home.
Born on Sept. 13, 1935, in Bellefonte, he was the son of Malcolm “Max” and Mamie (Griffith) Stickler. On Aug. 5, 1962, in Port Matilda, he married Sonja A. Biddle, who survives at home.
Stick was a 1953 graduate of Bellefonte Area High School. After 42 years of service, he retired from the Pennsylvania Fish Commission as a fishery technician. During his employment, he stocked fish, painted signs, and then worked in the engineering department.
Stick was a member of the American Legion Smith-Pletcher Post 779 in Centre Hall and the VFW Post 9575. He was an WWII enthusiast, loved airplanes, and enjoyed nice cars. He always had a project to do around the house and enjoyed tinkering around the property. He liked to fish and loved his four-legged companions, both canine and feline. Those that knew him would say he was a cantankerous man.
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Lawrence Brook Elementary student Melissa Nasralla asked, “How can I create a painting of a sunset?” She explored color mixing and created a painting for her passion project.
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Chittick Elementary School student Noah Natividad set up a practice space in his house and created a video to demonstrate how to improve his pirouette on parallel bars.PHOTO COURTESY OF EAST BRUNSWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Lawrence Brook Elementary School student Zoe Quan created an original coloring book for her passion project.PHOTO COURTESY OF EAST BRUNSWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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EAST BRUNSWICK – Fifth Grade Passion Projects provide an opportunity for all fifth grade students in East Brunswick to develop, manage and share ideas.
Editor’s note: Remember when students could eat lunch together, and be joined by special guests? We are looking back at good times in our local school districts pre-pandemic in this special series.
Mehlville School District Assistant Superintendent Jeff Bresler ate lunch with students at Rogers Elementary in October 2019 to celebrate National School Lunch Week.
Bresler is the former principal of Rogers, before he moved to Central Office.