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WDAD News
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7/28/2010
Amid angry protests from residents of the Laurel Valley end of the district, the Ligonier Valley School Board last night released a partial bus schedule for getting students from the north to Ligonier. Some students will be on the bus for over an hour in the morning, and their commute home that afternoon will be even longer. The board closed Laurel Valley High School at the end of that last academic year.
The longest bus ride will be from Bolivar, where students will board the bus at 6:18 AM and get to the school at 7:20 during ideal weather and traffic periods on heavily-traveled Route 711.
In addition to their anger at the bus routes, parents were also upset by the seemingly dismissive attitude of some board members, particularly Martin Stahl, who said students from the Ligonier end of the district have had to take long bus rides for over twenty years. Making even more students endure long bus rides didn’t seem like the perfect solution for Laurel Valley parents. The afternoon schedule was not released, but Business Manager Jim Marnell said it will be longer because there will be a “short layover” at the high school for middle school students.
The complete district bus schedule will be released next month.
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