(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

At their last meeting of 2022, the New Brighton School Board planned out their entire 2023 schedule. At their first meeting of 2023, there was a slight change of plans.

Preceding the scheduled committee meeting was a special voting meeting in which the board unanimously approved two hirings: Kara Stormfels as a Business Office Secretary for the school district, and Nick Long as the Director of Student Services. Stormfels’ hiring comes at the heels of the resignation of Karen Mooney on December 31, 2022; that resignation is set to be formally approved by the board at the voting meeting later this month. Both hirings are to take effect immediately (January 10), pending required forms and clearances.

Several items were submitted for approval at the regular committee meeting, including the finalized approval for the 2023-24 High School Curriculum Handbook, the purchase of a new PA system in the New Brighton Middle School (cost of $30,600), and the hirings of two staff members and fifteen coaches for varsity and middle school track, varsity baseball, varsity softball, and varsity and middle school volleyball.

The items brought forth at the committee meeting will be voted on at the next meeting for the New Brighton School Board, scheduled for January 23 at 7:30 PM at the High School’s “Little Theatre”.