Editor's note: This article was originally published Sept. 9, 2024, but was updated to correct the name of the food service director.

The Weatherly Area School District now has two principals.

The Weatherly Area School Board directors voted to create a new position of District Principal Pre-K to Grade 5.

Assistant principal Christopher Kimmel was approved to fill this position.

The district now has principals for grades 6-12 (Anthony DeSpirito) and pre-K to 5 (Kimmel).

The new position is subject to the Act 93 plan for school administrators.

The assistant principal position will be vacant.

The Nutrition Group introduced its new director of food service, Katrina Harrell. of Pocono Lake. She has 14 years of food service experience.

The board also extended the contract for superintendent Daniel Malloy for another three years and eight months, effective on Oct. 27.

In other business, the WASB approved the school lunch prices remaining the same this school year at $2.40 for the elementary and middle schools and $2.60 at the high school. An adult meal will be $4.65. Rohrer Bus’s van and bus driver list, and routes, were approved. The buses are all ready. The district is looking at a new zero-turn mower as an upgrade from the older unit now in use.

Three new club adviser positions were added to the approved list – the National Junior Honor Society filled by Sebastian Woolbert, Math Counts filled by Peggy McAndrew, and PA Jr. Academy of Science filled by Erin DeGennaro. Stipends for all these are $869.43. Tiffany Chapin, Lori Davis, Paula DeSpirito, John McGee and Nancy Van Horn were approved as homebound instruction teachers.

The district is interviewing three bilingual para-professionals for the English as a Second Language program. There is also technology that will be helpful for all the ESL students – Spanish as well as Portuguese and Hindi.