An addendum to an item I did this week on Piner High’s recent win at the annual Wine Country Chefs of Tomorrow event at the Vintners Inn should have included the prize taken by the culinary students at Maria Carrillo High. The Carrillo students, under the tutelage of Nectar Restaurant [...]
Just in time for lunch, check out the award-winning menu prepared by 17 Piner High School culinary arts students who took home the top prize at the “Chefs of Tomorrow” competition at Vintner’s Inn on April 7. Lamb loin with cocoa nib crust, mint chimichurri and a forget-me-not flower Chili [...]
Piner High School will host its sixth annual Athletic Hall of Fame dinner Saturday April 2 to honor top notch Prospectors. Former activities director and Piner legend Ed Anderson will be honored, as will the 1974 baseball team. The event will be held at the Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club, [...]
UPDATE: Through Region 1 and beyond. Piner's Simone Spearman was named Educator of the Year for all of California at the annual California League of High Schools Confererence in Sacramento last weekend. "Way to go, Simone! You are amazing!" Piner Principal Sally Bimrose wrote in a message to the Prospectors [...]
Piner High School’s French teacher Maureen Cecil tells ExtraCredit that this month 51 students made a trip to San Francisco to see the post impressionist exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The joint venture between Cecil and art teacher Nick Mancillas took students from the French club, [...]
Dylan Ferrell is Santa Rosa City Schools high school student of the month. Ferrell, a senior at Piner High School, has earned a 4.24 grade point average by tackling an array of Advanced Placement and honors class in his four year career as a Prospector. Ferrell is described by English [...]
Piner High School will hold an open house and information night to highlight its academic and campus programs Dec. 15. Prospective students and parents are invited to attend, according to first-year principal Sally Bimrose. Recent grads, current students, as well as faculty and staff, will give presentations on the Early [...]
Santa Rosa City Schools this month approved a plan to reconstruct a kitchen heavily damaged by a fire in August. The Aug. 21 fire started when maintenance workers left floor mats on the stove overnight, according to Associate Superintendent Doug Bower. Damage to the kitchen, which is used to prepare [...]
Some last minute wrangling over schedules seems to have worked out in the favor of students at Piner and Maria Carrillo High Schools. A crew of students from Carrillo showed up at last week’s Santa Rosa School Board meeting to protest the announced cancelation of their Advanced Placement biology class [...]
Santa Rosa School Board member Tad Wakefield called out Elsie Allen and Piner high schools Wednesday night for what he called their “abysmal” scores in the English language arts section of the STAR test. At Wednesday night’s board meeting, Wakefield said Elsie Allen’s junior class score of 27 percent of [...]