Petaluma High School is racing to raise about $10,000 in the next week so that they can participate this semester in a national program where students develop microgravity research projects that, if accepted, will be launched into space next year. "I think we'll get there, but it's a little tight," [...]
Stephanie Quinlan St. Vincent Elementary, the 126-year-old Catholic school in Petaluma, has a new leader following the retirement last year of longtime Principal Susan Roffmann. The new principal, Stephanie Quinlan, grew up in Napa and has worked in Novato at Our Lady of Loretto School. Most recently, she was at [...]
A class of El Molino High School viticulture students got a hands-on lesson in grape growing early in the school year Tuesday when they helped harvest plump, ripe pinot noir grapes from the school's one-acre vineyard. An El Molino High School viticulture and plant science student snips a cluster [...]
Just before most Santa Rosa-area schools return next week, teachers and administrators sat down to be honored at a breakfast hosted by the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce.
I know it is the sleepy summer time but The Press Democrat still needs ideas for our Teen Face profiles. Do you know a teen doing great things? We don't necessarily need the A+ scholars (although they are welcomed too), just a great kid who is doing something special with [...]
Pictured, left to right, are Louis Rampone, Kelsey Sword, Megan Cheatham, Mandi Young, Erika Sween, Riana Andersen, Isabella Negri, Fiona Barbolak, Ezgar Sanchez, Angelica Lezama, Megan Simmons, Mariah Udell and Sam Flood. Not pictured are Tomas Guzman, Emily Lewis and Mitchel Reesink. Fourteen El Molino High School members [...]
At the close of the current school year, Santa Rosa City Schools will say goodbye to scores of staffers who have spent more than 927 years serving Sonoma County's largest school district. Some of the longer tenured staffers include Louise Bostrom of the business services department who spent 39 years [...]
El Molino High School celebrated its 50th birthday May 10 with a grand celebration at the Santa Rosa Junior College Shone Farm. The party served as a reunion of sorts for many Lion alums but also a fundraiser for the school’s ag, performing arts, athletics and culinary arts programs, among [...]
Students and staff at Cook Middle School dedicated a memorial garden last week to honor all Mustangs who have died. A tree was planted and a memorial marker was placed in honor of Andy Lopez, a former Cook student who was killed by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy last October. [...]
Mila Kell has been named the new director of curriculum and instruction at Petaluma City Schools. Kell has spent the last 22 years in Chicago Public Schools, most recently as the program manager for the Office of Language and Cultural Education where she developed curriculum guides for English learners among [...]