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A local photographer impresses Robert Redford
Keith Walski, a Rancho Cotate High School graduate, is one of just 15 student artists worldwide to win a Robert Redford/Milagro Initiative Scholarship for 2015. A photographer, Walski, 18, will be...
View ArticleNo chickens on MCHS jazz choir
The Maria Carrillo High School Jazz Choir in 2014. The respected Maria Carrillo High School Jazz Choir topped 10 tough competitors and was selected to sing the national anthem at the Dec. 26 Foster...
View ArticleUnion School seeks student to survive
Here’s my story and an accompanying video about the Union School south of Petaluma, which is facin gclosure unless it can enroll one more student. Here’s a link to the story
View ArticleThursday: Free film about changing the cycle of adversity
Santa Rosa City Schools and Upstream Investments will hold a private screening of the Paper Tigers documentary by James Redford Thursday, Jan. 14 at 3:30 p.m. at Santa Rosa High School. Paper Tigers...
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Yankee Doodle sweetness
The Lincoln School Pageant was held at the Petaluma Elks Lodge, with school children from one of the last remaining one-room schoolhouses in Northern California performing “A Yankee Doodle Dandy...
View ArticleNail that interview
Two Sonoma County businesswomen have launched a company to provide on-campus training for college students — and recent graduates — in resume writing, job hunting and interviewing skills. It’s called...
View ArticleTouchdown for low-income students
The Bay Area operations of Summer Search — which include a Petaluma branch — have been awarded $500,000 by the Super Bowl 50 Fund. Summer Search works to close the opportunity gap for low-income...
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Ascending star
Mireya Arango is headed to Stanford University after a stellar high school career during which she surmounted considerable odds. Arango, a Petaluma High School student who took 13 honors and AP...
View ArticleToo much in kindergarten?
This article on EdSource about kindergarten truancy contains this paragraph: The sentence in bold made me wonder this: What about dialing back the “heft” of the kindergarten curriculum? Would that...
View ArticleMultiple cultures at SR Middle Friday
Chinese acrobats, Hawaiian dancers and mariachis. At least 22 booths of food representing countries and cultures from around the world. That will be the scene Friday at Santa Rosa Middle School. The...
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