Mill River Union High School
Mill River Union High School, commonly known as Mill River or MRU, is a public junior-senior high school in Clarendon, Vermont. and is part of the Rutland South Supervisory Union. RSSU includes the towns of Clarendon, Wallingford, Shrewsbury and Tinmouth. Other towns whose students attend Mill River include Ira, Middletown Springs and Danby. The current principal is Deb Fishwick and the assistant principal is Tyler Weidman.
Athletics
Mill River competes in Division II in Vermont in all sports except football, where they compete in Division III. It competes in the local Marble Valley League (MVL).
- The girls' soccer team was ranked #1 in the state in 2004 and 2005.
- The football team won the state championship in 1994
- The girls' basketball team won the state championship in 2015.
In 2008, both the boys' and girls' soccer teams won all of their games. Also true of the boys JV team in 1996.
In 2014, the baseball team went off and won the state championship to capture the first ever title in school history
Drama
Mill River's theater company is Stage 40. This is run by a student board of directors. Each season it performs three shows, and helps the middle school (Stage 20) run a spring play. The 2007-2008 season included The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan. The fall show was an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits. The 2009-2010 season included Splendor in the Grass, by WIll Inge, based on the film of the same name, directed by Elia Kazan; Discourse on Dissent, a series of shorts based on war themes; and The Witches. The Middle school did a performance of Alice in Wonderland. Other productions have included, Sam Shepard's Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Slavomir Mrozek's, Fox Hunt, and Ted Hughes', The Pig Organ. Peter Bruno is Stage 40's director. The 2015-2016 season will open with a production of Man of La Mancha, under the musical direction of Melissa Chesnut-Tangerman.
Activities
- Upward Bound (Castleton State College)
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Coordinates: 43°33′47″N 72°58′05″W / 43.5631245°N 72.9681611°W