Schools

As a team, the local Sports Medicine Club placed sixth in the large school division. The top 10 teams from that round earned the opportunity to compete in the AACI National Sports Medicine Competition earlier this month.

San Benito High School was recognized for a second straight year as one of the top public school sites in the country.

A Hollister resident who teaches at a middle school in San Jose has been arrested on suspicion of having inappropriate sexual communications via social media with a student, police said Sept. 29. Trae Devonte Owens, 29, a teacher at Herbert Hoover Middle School, is accused...

The Hollister School District will expand its services when it comes to feeding children during the difficult transition of the distance learning model. The district announced July 27 in a newsletter that the wildly successful Monday MealDay program, which launched four months ago, will continue...

The San Benito High School District is taking serious measures when it comes to the COVID-19 outbreak as crew members continue to work daily to disinfect the campus.

San Benito High School junior Yvette Fragozo made it to the quarterfinals of the television show “Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento” on Estrella TV.  The next stage of the competition is on hold during the shelter-in-place order due to the Covid-19 pandemic but the show will...

The road to getting kids back to school in San Benito County took another big turn as the state is now moving forward with full remote instruction.  Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a press conference July 17 that all schools in counties on the California...

San Benito Aquatics and Hollister High School hosted more than 650 swimmers from throughout northern California and Nevada this past weekend for the 2022 Pacific Swimming Summer Junior Olympics.  The competition took place at the school’s swimming facilities July 8-10. Among the competitors were two...

The first day of the new school year Aug. 17 at Calaveras Elementary and Accelerated Achievement Academy went exactly as the schools’ principals expected: full of joy, excitement and sense of community that the 700-student campus is known for. Starting at about 7:45am—as soon as...