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Little League gets another deal at Monroe, despite protest

The Santa Rosa School Board on Wednesday night approved a renewal of the annual agreement with local Little League officials to use Monroe Elementary school for baseball. The arrangement has irked neighbors for years, especially David Lewis, who lives adjacent to the ballfields and has repeatedly complained about early morning [...]

By | November 17th, 2010|8 Comments

UPDATED: Pugh: This election had me worried

UPDATE: As of 12:52 a.m. and with 119 out of 155 precincts reporting, Bill Carle had 26.8 of the vote, Frank Pugh had 25.1 percent, Ron Kristof had 19.8 percent, Wally Lowry had 17.7 percent and Gilbert Hawkins had 10.4 percent _____________________ Longtime school board member Frank Pugh said this [...]

By | November 3rd, 2010|0 Comments

SR teachers to rally for candidates tomorrow

With election day next Tuesday and the first competitive race in six years, the Santa Rosa teachers union is planning to greet students and their parents at the driveways and sidewalks of Santa Rosa City Schools campuses Wednesday morning with signs supporting their slate of candidates for the school board. [...]

By | October 26th, 2010|3 Comments

More from Wednesday night’s SR school board mtg

While the Santa Rosa School Board on Wednesday night directed staff to move forward with checking out different proposals to initiate its almost year-old corporate sponsorship and naming rights policy, different opinions emerged on just how that should look in reality. Board president Bill Carle said he would not vote [...]

By | August 11th, 2010|0 Comments

Want to run for school board? You’d better move fast…

The race is on. Four candidates are expected to have qualified by the end of day Wednesday for three open seats on the Santa Rosa School Board. Incumbents Wally Lowry and Frank Pugh qualified on July 21 and July 12 respectively and retired social science teacher Ron Kristof qualified on [...]

By | August 4th, 2010|0 Comments

SR School Board: More cuts are coming

The Santa Rosa School Board finalized $5.6 million in cuts to next school year’s $88 million budget but members warned that the entire list of line item cuts will be revisited – in as early as May when the state revised budget is released. “I’m open to more cuts at [...]

By | February 24th, 2010|1 Comment

A remarkable moment amid the budgetary bloodletting

A nice moment amid the budgetary bloodletting at the Santa Rosa School Board meeting last night? Santa Rosa High Senior Isabel Love pulled off an act of bravery rarely seen at a public microphone. She apologized. Love just two weeks ago sent the packed chambers atwitter with her vitriolic criticism [...]

By | February 11th, 2010|0 Comments

New leadership positions on Santa Rosa board

Heading into January when board members will likely make decisions on approximately $5.6 million in cuts beginning in the 2010-11 school year, (with the prospect of $4.7 million more for 2011-12), the Santa Rosa School Board has appointed new officers for the upcoming year. Bill Carle is president, Frank Pugh [...]

By | December 14th, 2009|0 Comments

More from packed school board meeting

  More than 200 people jammed into Santa Rosa City Council chambers Wednesday night for what Santa Rosa School board members Donna Jeye and Bill Carle called the largest crowd they had ever seen. The tone was civil, there was very little finger pointing and many in the crowd and [...]

By | October 28th, 2009|2 Comments

School Board salutes Eugene Mijares

I did an item on the death of Eugene Mijares last week (click here to read it http://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/10779/eugene-mijares-remembered/), but a number of acknowledgements were made at tonight’s meeting for the man who spent a quarter of a decade working with students in Santa Rosa. Board President Donna Jeye offered her [...]

By | September 23rd, 2009|13 Comments