The Mount Pleasant High School Goin’ Gold Band competed in the Prairiland Marching Contest on Saturday, October 16. The band scored straight 1’s earning them a place in finals. The band finished the day with Outstanding Band and Outstanding Colorguard awards as well as a 4th place overall finish. The Goin’ Gold Band and Colorguard [...]
The Theatre Department will present Ibsen’s 1879 play, A Doll’s House, about a young woman, Nora, who goes against convention to save her husband’s life. Though women were forbidden from borrowing money without their husband’s consent, Nora arranges a loan and takes her husband to a warmer climate so he can recover from his illness. [...]
Mount Pleasant High School senior, Connelly Cowan, was recently selected as the MPHS Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Good Citizen. The Martha Laird Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution sponsors the DAR Good Citizen program in our area. This contest is designed to honor an outstanding young person [...]
The Mount Pleasant Tigers were in midseason form on Monday as they took 1st place in the second match of their fall schedule. The team of Matthew Peterson, Brady Sisk, George Burrows, Sam Sloan, and Kade Strickland torched the Sulphur Springs Country Club course for a team total 316 strokes. Paris was the next closest [...]
The Mount Pleasant swim team began their fall season last week competing in the Grace Fall Invitational held in Tyler. The Tigers and Lady Tigers showed a good start to the season finishing in the middle of the pack individually and as a team in 5th place out of 14 teams. The Tiger team consisted [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) officers attended the Fall Leadership Conference at LaPoynor High School on Friday, October 15. While at the conference, students learned interview tips, dinner etiquette, how to dress for success, and participated in team bonding and icebreaker activities with other FBLA students from around the [...]
Sign up now to participate in the "Dolls in the Making" Tiger Doll Dance Clinic. The clinic will be held Saturday, November 13 from 9:00-12:00 in the Willie Williams Gymnasium for kindergarten-8th grade girls. Cost is $25 per participant. Each participant will receive a t-shirt and learn stretching technique, leaps, turns, kicks, and a [...]
The Mount Pleasant boys' varsity cross-country team won their second consecutive district championship last Thursday scoring 24 points and dominating the competition. Pine Tree finished in second with 51 points and Hallsville wrapped up third with 60 points. The girls' varsity team finished in fifth place and the JV girls and JV boys finished in [...]
Fourteen Mount Pleasant High School choir students have earned places in the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) All-Region Choir. Auditions were held at Sulphur Springs High School on October 9. Those selected include Seniors Abril Ramirez (2nd chair 2nd soprano), Emyly Lopez (6th chair 2nd alto), Eduardo Espinoza (6th chair 1st tenor), junior Litzy Gonzalez [...]
