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Freeport Area School District
$55 million project approved alongside district’s 2025-26 budget and tax increase.
$55 million project approved alongside district’s 2025-26 budget and tax increase.
June 11, 2025 Local News
Freeport’s school board will decide either in favor of the overhaul of a high school in disrepair or to avoid spending on a project that will bring the district more than...
June 08, 2025 Local News
BUFFALO TWP — Freeport Area School District is days away from finding out if it’s $55 million in the hole for large-scale high school repairs. Freeport’s school board is...
June 05, 2025 Local News
BUFFALO TWP — Cheers and tears set the scene for 131 Freeport Area High School seniors who marched across the stage to receive their high school diplomas on Friday evenin...
May 30, 2025 Local News
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...
May 16, 2025 Local News
BUFFALO TWP — Freeport’s school board will have more time to make a decision on its high school’s future. With questions over project funding and potential tax hikes, an...
May 14, 2025 Local News
BUFFALO TWP — Members of the Freeport Area School Board unanimously approved a preliminary operating fund budget for the 2025-26 school year during a special meeting on W...
May 07, 2025 Local News
As the Freeport Area School District get’s ready to craft its 2025-26 operating budget, a May 14 high school renovation decision also looms over future financial decision...
March 14, 2025 Local News
BUFFALO TWP — Freeport Area School District families will have an answer on the high school’s future by mid-May. Gary Risch Jr., Freeport’s school board president, said ...
March 13, 2025 Local News
Kira Schrecongost knew what she had in the tank entering the 100-yard butterfly at the PIAA Class 2A girls swimming championships on Wednesday. By finishing the event in ...
March 12, 2025 Sports
BUFFALO TWP — Freeport Area School District residents can expect a final decision on the high school renovation project to made in early March. School board member Grego...
February 05, 2025 Local News
National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform placed Freeport Area Middle School on its Schools to Watch list, which acknowledges schools’ commitment to academic exce...
January 25, 2025 Local News
BUFFALO TWP — The Freeport Area School Board broke down renovation plans for the high school at a Wednesday, Jan. 15 meeting, but noted that a tax increase for the distri...
January 17, 2025 Local News
Buffalo Township residents will see taxes to the township climb in the new year. The township recently approved its budget for the 2025 fiscal year, complete with a 4-mi...
December 31, 2024 Finance
BUFFALO TWP — The Freeport Area School District board’s Jan. 15 meeting may be the last time the public gets to comment before moving forward with a vote on potentially r...
December 12, 2024
Freeport swimming has not had a pool to call home for a while. In the past, the Yellowjackets, whose girls team tied for a section championship last year, have sparingly ...
December 03, 2024 Sports
Freeport girls volleyball was swept Saturday by Hampton 3-0 in the WPIAL Class 3A tournament third-place game. Hampton claimed the final spot allocated to District 7 in t...
November 03, 2024 Sports
WEXFORD — Freeport had match point. Mars had an answer. Leading their WPIAL Class 3A girls volleyball semifinal 2-1 against the Planets on Wednesday night at North Alleg...
October 30, 2024 Sports
BUFFALO TWP — Entering the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs with momentum was far from the only motivation Mars had when it took the court against Freeport’s girls volleyball team...
October 17, 2024 Sports
BUFFALO TWP — Board directors in the Freeport Area School District will vote next week to implement a weekly online study aimed at educating eighth graders on responsible...
October 04, 2024 Education
BUFFALO TWP — Board directors in the Freeport Area School District agreed to vote whether to solicit a proposal for a demographic study that could help inform future reno...
October 03, 2024 Education
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
Freeport’s Braun has emerged as one of WPIAL’s top XC runners
Freeport’s Braun has emerged as one of WPIAL’s top XC runners
September 16, 2024 Sports
Knoch, Freeport and Allegheny-Clarion Valley students also return to class
Knoch, Freeport and Allegheny-Clarion Valley students also return to class
August 21, 2024 Education
Freeport High School’s girls volleyball program has become synonymous with success. Over the last 19 seasons, the Yellowjackets have won a section title every year wh...
August 21, 2024 Sports
Josh Book, a rising senior at Slippery Rock Area High School, said he remembers the first day of his freshman year as though it were yesterday. Josh said his first few m...
August 07, 2024 Special Sections
All 31 juniors in David DeSantis’ Advanced Placement World History class at Freeport Senior High School passed the end-of-the-year exam this year, beating the national te...
August 03, 2024 Education
Five school districts in Butler County will receive adequacy supplements this coming school year under the 2024-25 state budget, but the money falls short of what was pr...
July 20, 2024 Education
Isaac Wetzel was hoping to get back on the track. Duquesne University provided the opportunity to do so. A 2023 graduate of Freeport Area High School, Wetzel believed...
June 27, 2024 Sports
The 63rd class reunion of Freeport High School’s Class of 1961 will be at 3 p.m. Aug. 31 at Praha Restaurant, 400 Corbet St., Tarentum. Graduates from that year are invit...
June 15, 2024 Community
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