Musicians from Montgomery High School will provide the background music for “A Taste of Montgomery Village,” a fundraiser for the high school drama department. The school is slated to send a small troupe of drama students to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer – a three week event in August [...]
The Montgomery High School drama department opened on Thursday night a run of performances of “Spring Fever.” The show features one-act plays written by David Ives and Horton Foote. The performances will be staged tonight, Saturday (including a matinee), Sunday and April 20, 21 and 22. Evening shows are at [...]
Reunion season is upon us. As I did last year, I’ll try to post and repost calls for classmates as often as practicable throughout the spring or summer. So if you and your Sonoma County classmates are having a reunion this summer, shoot me an email with the details, and [...]
Montgomery High School’s Alexandria Sisk has earned a $2,500 National Achievement Scholarship from the non-profit National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Sisk is the only Sonoma County resident to win the award which is given to outstanding black American high school seniors who earned the highest scores on the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National [...]
Montgomery High School has established a new Leo Club under the guidance of the Montgomery Village Lions Club. Officers were installed Tuesday night. Jamie Dorn-Caruso was elected the new club’s first president. Paige McMahon was elected secretary and Cali Nethercut-Wells was elected first vice president. The club meets on Fridays [...]
The next in a series of fundraisers to help send members of the Elsie Allen High theater department to Edinburgh this summer for Fringe Fest is Saturday night. The Celtic Fringe Festival is from 7-11 p.m. Saturday at St. Rose Parrish Hall, 398 10th St. in Santa Rosa. Celtic music, [...]
If you read about Elsie Allen High’s One-Act Play Festival running tonight and Saturday in today’s Press Democrat but can’t make it, here are a few more places to see and support Elsie’s efforts to make it the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. According to booster (and theater mom) Kathy Korlin, the [...]
Montgomery High School will host an open house Thursday to introduce prospective students and parents interested in the International Baccalaureate Program. The IB program is a college prep curriculum with a global focus. World languages include French, Latin, Mandarin and Spanish. Courses include theory of knowledge, social anthropology, film, music, [...]
UPDATE: Sue Bryne sent over photos of some of the performers lined up to perform Monday night. ___________ I’m working on a story about Montgomery High School’s efforts to get to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival next summer. Story expected to run over the weekend. Meantime, those interested in attending the [...]
UPDATE: Here are some additional photos from teh presentation, courtesy of Elsie's theater instructor Rob Burt. ____ Remember Elsie Allen's quest to attend the Edinburg Fringe Fest next summer? Members of the Lobo theater community are working hard to make it happen. This week the group received a $2,500 boost. [...]