Mill River Union High School

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Mill River Union High School, commonly known as Mill River or MRU, is a public junior-senior high school in North Clarendon, Vermont. and is part of the Rutland South Supervisory Union. RSSU includes the towns of Clarendon, North Clarendon, Wallingford, and Shrewsbury. The Rutland Southwest Supervisory Union towns Ira, Middletown Springs and Tinmouth go to Mill River, as well as Danby and Mount Holly. The current high school principal is Cynthia Hinrichsen, with Joan Holden as the junior high principal. Mrs. Fogg is the future middle school principal, for Joan Holden has retired. Georgia Mosher is the middle school counsler. 2nd Lieutenant Mark Brownell teaches here.

Mill River has a strong music program, along with a strong theater program. Sports are great, too.

[edit] Athletics

Mill River competes in Division II in all sports except football, where they compete in Division III.The football team's record(Coached by Ken Webb) for the 2007-08 season was 6-2 and made it to the playoffs.In recent years, MRU has been postseason contenders in Girl's and Boy's soccer and football, along with a trip to the state finals in 2005 for the boys basketball team. The girls soccer team has consecutively been the best team in the division, yet always blow it at the last seconds of the game. However, it should be noted that the middle school football team has yet to win a game in four years. The Girl's and Boy's soccer teams each make it to at the least the second round, if not further, into the playoffs annually. The Boy's team, in fact, made it to the state finals in the 2007 season and the Girl's team won MVL titles in 2003 and 2006, also making it to the semi-finals in 2006.

[edit] Drama

Mill River's theater company, Stage 40, is now under the direction of Mr. Peter Bruno, aka B-Dawg, and Mr. Glenn Tarbell, two amazing directors who are forever trying their best to transform a mob of unruly teenagers into professional actors & technical personnel. Stage 40 is run by a student board of directors, and each season do 3 shows, and help the middle school (Stage 20) run a spring play. The 2007-2008 season included The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan for the fall show, an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits for their winter kid's show, an orginial fairy tale comedy written by Frank Asch called Prince Charming for the Regional One-Act Play Festival in Williamstown, and an adaptation of Robert Frost Poems for Stage 20's show. Anyone who wishes to donate money to this not-for-profit organization can email bugburt@gmail.com.