SV girls stretch winning streak against Butler

Seneca Valley forward Maddie Karchut, left, gets one of her four first-half blocked shots against Butler and Ali Altman during the Raiders' 41-30 home win Thursday night. Karchut finished the night with five blocks to go with 11 points, 10 rebounds and three steals.

JACKSON TWP — Having already secured a spot in the WPIAL playoffs, Seneca Valley's girls basketball team was looking to stretch its winning streak to four games in Thursday's section finale against Butler.

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Raiders bounced in PIAA wrestling

Seneca Valley's wrestling team suffered a pair of PIAA Class AAA tournament losses Friday in Hershey.

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Seneca Valley won't be tacking on make-up days to the calendar

Three days of school closures across the county have likely already tacked days on to the end of the school year for many districts, but Seneca Valley School District has a different way of handling snow days.

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New courses to help guide students toward career

Seneca Valley school board adds new courses to high school curriculum.

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Remote curriculum changes nature of snow days

When the snow starts falling, some kids in Butler County sprawl in front of the television.

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SV time change gets good feedback

Students at Seneca Valley have already provided anecdotal evidence to support the district’s decision to make start times later for the 2018-19 school year.

Seneca Valley evaluates how later start times have influenced their students and teachers so far in the year.

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Technology brings school to students on snow days

Technology is a marvelous thing. One example, featured in today’s special section on education, is the use of flexible instructional days, or FIDs for short.

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New innovation centers greet elementary students

Students at Rowan Elementary School check out their new, pirate-themed Creativity, Innovation and Research Center.

Two new Creativity, Innovation and Research Centers (CIRCs) recently opened at Rowan and Connoquenessing Valley Elementary (CVE) schools in the Seneca Valley School District.

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SV MAKES QUILTS FOR TREE OF LIFE

Sewing hope, peace and love

Alex Speck, program director at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, met with Seneca Valley students Wednesday at the Rodef Shalom Congregation to receive the quilts they made.

Seneca Valley students tested their skills and patience to create three quilts for the Tree of Life Congregation.

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EVENTS

Saturday

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Record-setting night

Tornado's Goettler, Raiders' Blazer snap Butler pool marks

Butler junior Laura Goettler swims in the 200-yard freestyle against Seneca Valley at Butler High School Thursday night. Goettler broke her own pool record in the breaststroke.

BUTLER TWP — Owen Blazer and Laura Goettler want to accomplish a lot in the remainder of the high school swimming season.

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Events

Friday

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WPIAL tourney time arrives

Mars boys, North Catholic girls top seeds; Butler draws Connellsville in 1st round

Two No. 1 seeds and a whole lot of hopefuls.

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Zajacs' buzzer-beater lifts Raiders

SV boys survive Norwin, 52-50

JACKSON TWP — The ball wasn't supposed to go to Zac Zajacs.

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Butler girls relays hit qualifying times

All three Butler girls relay units hit PA Indoor State qualifying times Saturday during the Tri-State Track Coaches Association meet at Edinboro University.