Challenges to the nomination petitions of two write-in candidates for the Mars Area School District Board of Directors claim they didn’t filed their financial interests s...
It’s been mere weeks since Derek Piatek and Jordan Hoover wrapped up their varsity careers and graduated from Mars High School and Seneca Valley High School, respectively...
Another Mars Fightin’ Planet is on the doorstep of MLB.
JJ Wetherholt, a 2021 graduate of Mars High School, was promoted Monday by the St. Louis Cardinals to their Tr...
PITTSBURGH — From two-time All-Star to Triple-A to becoming one of the more sought-after closers as the Major League Baseball trade deadline approaches.
Such is the rolle...
Mars graduate and St. Louis Cardinals farmhand JJ Wetherholt was named to the 2025 MLB All-Star Futures Game on Monday.
Among the 50 players included on those rosters, We...
Two students were removed from six others who claim they were injured in a March 6 bus crash in a lawsuit against the Mars Area School District and its bus company, A.J. ...
Gabe Hein entered last high school football season as a known commodity in Eric Kasperowicz’s Mars offense, then turned heads with a Week 1 eruption.
The rising senior re...
Two Mars eighth-graders received the American Legion Award, rewarded for traits like leadership and service, for the 2024-25 school year.
Kellan Garvin and Reese Vuckovi...
ADAMS TWP — Mars Area School District’s board passed a $65 million budget, along with a 1- mill property tax increase, following a failed attempt to table the budget Tues...
MECHANICSBURG — For more than three quarters, Mars stayed with Allentown Central Catholic. Then the Vikings earned valuable breathing room that the Planets were unable to...
Two Mars Area Primary Center classrooms had a rare opportunity May 30 — covering their building principal in silly string.
The students were rewarded for raising the most...
Ben Bowser could probably play in another era.
Mars boys lacrosse coach Bob Marcoux described the senior, a captain two-way midfielder, as the Planets’ most valuable play...
The 2025 PIAA Class 2A boys lacrosse championship semifinals will be held Saturday, and Mars is still out to prove it belongs.
The Planets (19-2) advanced via a 12-2 firs...
ADAMS TWP — Cohen Pollock had a fine sophomore season for Lower Dauphin’s boys lacrosse team, but Mars made sure to end it on a sour note.
The Planets pelted the sophomor...
ADAMS TWP — Twin Valley has made three straight appearances in the PIAA Class 2A girls lacrosse championship game.
Keeping the Raiders from moving one step closer to a fo...
ADAMS TWP — Mars Area School District residents should know next Tuesday if their taxes will go up by another mill.
The millage proposal will be voted on at next week’s ...
Dylan Weitzell, a senior at Mars Area High School, received an appointment to the Merchant Marine Academy, one of only five United States service academies.
According to...
The WPIAL baseball tournament continues this week with the last quarterfinals and all semifinals.
The Butler Golden Tornado, Seneca Valley and Mars are the last Butle...
A Mars Area Class of 2024 graduate was awarded an arts excellence scholarship from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Trevin Hammerbeck, a filmmaking m...
UPPER ST. CLAIR — Nine and counting.
But this one didn’t come easy.
Junior midfielder Grant Weaver scored three goals, and Mars held off a furious South Fayette rally to ...
UPPER ST. CLAIR — Mars had a lead through three quarters, but it wasn't enough.
By the end of the fourth, the Planets had their fill.
Taking an 8-4 lead into the final pe...
ADAMS TWP — From pickle pillows and clay pierogies to paper machete zoo animals and incline paintings, Mars Area Elementary School students embraced their inner “Yinzer” ...
Mars Area School District’s elementary school expansion, which had been expected to start this month, is on hold for a little longer.
The renovation, which is expected t...
WEST VIEW — Mars boys lacrosse coach Bob Marcoux did not have a favorable opinion on the first half of Monday’s WPIAL Class 2A semifinal against Hampton.
After the first ...
WEST VIEW — Playing for a WPIAL championship has become a habit for Mars girls lacrosse. The mentality that comes with such consistency undoubtedly played a role in the P...
MONROEVILLE — In Mars’ eyes, seeding doesn’t matter.
Attitude? Absolutely.
The 15th-seeded Planets knocked off No. 2 seed Plum in the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A ba...
Zoe Passarelli admitted to dreaming about what would happen once she entered the ring for her amateur boxing debut.
Saturday night, she made it reality.
The Mars juni...
When Brutus Buckeye, Ohio State University’s mascot, stepped through the football stadium tunnel and came out the other side as biomedical engineering major Emily Hayward...
If you want to impact the future and shape the formative years of hundreds of youths, become a school board member.
“Great school boards understand they have (a) profound...
