Schools

San Benito County public health officials have been encouraging students to get their immunizations before they head back to school, where it is easy for peers to swap germs over shared playground structures, desks and books.

Students entering Calaveras School this fall will have the chance to slip down a slide, run across a bridge and hang from modernized monkey bars, after a new playground takes shape at the campus this week.

The California Department of Education released the first results of a new form of state testing Wednesday, which showed most students in San Benito County—like those across the state—did not meet the new standards.

There may be some relief this month for both parking and traffic headaches around San Benito High School.The City of Hollister has agreed to create reverse-angle parking on both sides of Monterey Street in front of San Benito High School north to B Street,...

After over two years of discussing proposed new facilities,

As the start of the 2003 Iditarod nears, many teams of huskies

When Jim Caffiero empties his office at San Benito High School at the end of this year, he will be taking along memories of 27 years working with local students. Caffiero, being honored at the Mexican American Committee for Education scholarship banquet Saturday, will retire after nearly three decades of working with high school students.