Santa Rosa High School grad Leah McKissock (’07) won the grand prize in a recent filmmaking competition. The following information was provided by the Cal State Long Beach, where McKissock, 22, is a senior expected to graduate with a degree in film and electronic arts this semester. McKissock’s [...]
ExtraCredit likes to take note when local grads make good. Check this out: Kosta Browne Winery in Sebastopol, was just honored by Wine Spectator for producing the top wine in 2011. The Kosta of Kosta Browne is Dan of Santa Rosa High's class of 1990. And a fellow Panther, Chris Costello, is [...]
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 [...]
The Sonoma County Department of Public Health will hold two free whooping cough vaccination clinics for middle and high school students beginning Saturday. Seventh through 12th graders are required to show proof of a pertussis, or whooping cough, vaccination within the first 30 days of the school year or be barred [...]
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 [...]
Even with the 30-day grace period for having proof of a whooping cough vaccination to start school this fall, all seventh through 12th graders will eventually need them -- and soon. See the following list for times and locations and go to http://bit.ly/nZ23nc at the Sonoma County Department of Public Health [...]
UPDATE: Want to know which ArtQuest students created this piece? Here they are: Rebecca McGillivary, Shushan Tesfu Zigta, Laura Thomas, Gemma Waaland, Cleo Malone, Sophia Kobus-Pigg, Kaitlin Jann, Samantha Jones, Catrin Wendt, Bryan Harris, and Laura Sugiyama. There are more photos on the Redwood Empire Food Bank Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/p2fe5w [...]
Sonoma County native and author Amy E. Goodman will return to Santa Rosa this week for a guest reading of her new book “Wear This, Toss That.” Goodman, a Santa Rosa High School class of 1991 graduate, will be at Copperfield’s in Montgomery Village at 7 p.m. Thursday to read [...]
Maria Carrillo High School sophomore Adrian Devitt-Lee won the California TrigStar math competition and will head to the national contest in June. Devitt-Lee dominated the state competition, earning a 100 percent score in a speedy 11 minutes. For perspective, contest organizers reminded readers that Ian VonSeggern, the Santa Rosa High [...]
Alison Grady is described by Santa Rosa High School officials as the driving force behind the campus Climate Protection Club which is credited with reducing the school’s energy use by 20 percent this year. Grady was honored for her commitment to the Santa Rosa City Schools Green Team Subcommittee, of [...]