UPDATE: The Santa Rosa School Board included the annual scholarship totals on Wednesday night's regular agenda three weeks after it originally appeared after Trustee Bill Carle asked for the item to come back for discussion. (A correction to Piner's totals, made by district staff, has been changed below.) Carle raised concern [...]
Piner High School senior Monica Acosta earned a first place finish at the Student Speakers Contest hosted by the Windsor Lions Club, according to veteran Piner science teacher Judy Barcelon. Acosta now moves on to the next level of competition which will be held Friday at the Windsor [...]
Piner High School’s Health Occupation Students of America club hosted a school wide health fair Jan. 27 that featured an array of visiting health professionals and allowed students to access information about their own health as well as heath care professions, according to Judy Barcelon, an instructor in Piner's Health [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! This photo comes from Piner High School's Patty Michiels, who says that before school was let out for the week, Rob Dilillo's culinary arts class had lessons in learning to cook and carve turkey. When they were finished, the meat was donated to help feed local homeless people.
Piner High School has nabbed the prestigious Golden Bell Award for its Geospatial Technology Program. Piner will be honored by the California School Boards Association at their annual meeting Dec. 3 in San Diego. Led by teachers Kristi Erickson and Kurt Kruger, the three-year pathways program teaches students global positioning [...]
Piner High’s Leonard Carter is Santa Rosa City Schools’ high school student of the month for November. Set to become team captain of the Prospector’s wrestling team, Carter is also a member of the football team and track and field squad. In addition, he is an active member of Piner’s [...]
A handful of local teachers were celebrated for excellence in the classroom on the eve of the start of the school year. The annual “Education & Business Partnership Breakfast” put on by the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce celebrated teachers from schools around Santa Rosa with a select few earning [...]
The Santa Rosa School Board has selected Maria Carrillo High School incoming senior Richard Liang to be the student representative on the board beginning July 1. The board has included a student representative on the board since 1978. Schools are represented on a regular rotation. Student representatives are given a [...]
Piner High School senior Emily Wood was honored Wednesday night for her commitment to the district’s Green Team Subcommittee. While attending the regular meetings, Wood suggested that next year’s meetings be hosted by middle and high school environmental clubs so committee members can see the campuses up close and in [...]
UPDATE: At the Santa Rosa City School Board meeting Wednesday night, the board honored retiring teachers and staff. The list of those retiring was updated from a previously published list. Here is the updated version: ____ When the school year ends later this month, Santa Rosa City Schools will say [...]