Mars Area School District
ADAMS TWP — The triple option is not the popular offense it once was, but it is alive and well with McKeesport’s football team.
The Tigers used it to gain 408 yards on th...
October 12, 2024
Sports
Seven Mars Area High School students were recognized by the Kushkushkee Trail Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
For excellence ...
October 12, 2024
Community
The Mars Planet Foundation is seeking a new board member and a secretary to assist the organization.
The new board member will help with teacher enrichment grants, studen...
October 11, 2024
Education
ADAMS TWP — Board directors of Mars Area School District unanimously agreed to join a class action lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Company over rising insulin prices.
The m...
October 09, 2024
Education
Mars Area High School has named its 2024-25 homecoming court.
Court members are, from left, Elianna Maher, Ian Coulter, Alyssa Hipsky, Luke Goodworth, Ellie Koma, Maxwel...
October 09, 2024
Community
ADAMS TWP — Mars Area School District voted 7-2 to file a declaratory judgment action against the Pennsylvania School Board Association during a meeting Tuesday, Oct. 8.
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October 08, 2024
Education
Former Springdale mentor will replace Carmody
Former Springdale mentor will replace Carmody
October 07, 2024
Sports
Talent does not always lead to accomplishment, but Lydia (Dennis) Burns was bound and determined to not let her ability go to waste.
Prior to graduating from Mars Area Hi...
October 07, 2024
Sports
Dana Petruska, who tallied over 500 wins as a girls basketball coach, most of them coming at Mars Area High School, has returned to coaching by taking the reins for a sec...
October 03, 2024
Sports
ADAMS TWP — Indiana has proved to be a very tough out in the WPIAL boys soccer circuit this season — unbeatable, in fact, except when it has faced Mars.
The Planets score...
October 01, 2024
Sports
Kobe Phillippi will take over Mars’ boys basketball program.
The Mars Area School Board approved Phillippi for the post during Tuesday’s meeting. He takes over for longti...
October 01, 2024
Sports
September 28, 2024
Local News
ADAMS TWP — The result of a game in late September is not going to make or break a high school volleyball team’s season.
It can, however, be an indicator of how far a pro...
September 24, 2024
Sports
Mars Area School District’s Special Education Department will host the following Parent Advisory Council meetings in September:
– Wednesday, Sept. 25 — Gifted Education P...
September 21, 2024
Education
Mars Area High School will host its annual College & Career Fair from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26.
The event is open to the public, including parents and students f...
September 21, 2024
Education
ADAMS TWP — Despite being down starting quarterback Luke Goodworth, Mars football kept pace with Montour throughout much of their Week 5 game at Mars Athletic Complext.
H...
September 21, 2024
Sports
Mars claimed its first-ever state championship in girls soccer in 2011, but the feat was only half of the story. The other was the incredibly dominant manner in which...
September 20, 2024
Sports
ALIQUIPPA — Under a shower of festive red floodlights, those lined up on the Mars football sideline were as still as statues.
Aliquippa’s Joseph Work had plunged into the...
September 14, 2024
Sports
Mars athletic director Zach Matusak is looking outside the boys basketball coaching staff as he tries to fill the Planets’ head coach opening just a few months before the...
September 14, 2024
Sports
ADAMS TWP — The Mars Area School Board approved a proposal for geotechnical engineering services at a meeting on Tuesday evening, Sept. 10.
The board listened to several ...
September 11, 2024
Local News
Students from the Pine-Richland/Mars Area U.S. Air Force JROTC plant 2,977 American flags along Route 228 outside Mars Area High School on Tuesday, Sept. 10 in remembran...
September 10, 2024
Local News
ADAMS TWP — As thunder and lightning rocked Butler County on Friday night and a handful of local football games were canceled, Mars was determined to play on.
The game wa...
September 07, 2024
Sports
MARS — The Mars Area School Board received an update on the latest plans for the expansion of Mars Area Elementary School during its board meeting Tuesday night, Sept. 3....
September 04, 2024
Education
ADAMS TWP — Gabe Hein and the Mars offense caught lightning in a bottle. But Luke Goodworth will have to rain more passes down elsewhere if the Planets are to succeed aga...
August 29, 2024
Sports
Focusing on the little things helps players improve at any level of sport.
For Christian Locher, it led to a record-breaking career on the basketball court.
When he gradu...
August 28, 2024
Sports
When the Mars boys basketball team takes the floor for the first time this December, it will mark the official start of a new era.
Rob Carmody, who guided the program...
August 28, 2024
Sports
SV and Moniteau school districts also begin school year
SV and Moniteau school districts also begin school year
August 22, 2024
Local News
Middlesex Township Police and Mars Area School District administrators have deemed a threat involving Mars Area High School on the first day of school to be non-credible....
August 22, 2024
Education
Parents and guardians in the Mars Area School District can continue using the Stopfinder app, which provides information on their student’s bus schedule.
The app displays...
August 22, 2024
Education
Kickoff of the 2024 PIAA high school football season is a week away.
Practices are in full swing, including for other fall sports. And games that count are around the...
August 21, 2024
Sports
