Schools

Hundreds of San Benito County students, from pre-Kindergarten through high school, displayed their works of art at the San Benito County Office of Education Arts Showcase, which was held Feb. 15 at the Veterans Memorial Building. Winners were selected at each grade level from a...

Cipriano Echezarreta, a graduate of the Gavilan College Class of 2024 who will transfer to UC Santa Cruz in the fall, was awarded the prestigious Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Scholarship.  Echezarreta, a resident of San Juan Bautista, is an environmental science major whose career...

The Gavilan Regional Academic and Career Education Service Consortium (Gavilan Regional ACES) has launched a new website, aces.gavilan.edu, designed to help adults who are seeking to improve their education.

San Benito High School 2018 graduate Rolando Pablo Lorenzo was back on campus Dec. 13 to receive his “Every Student Succeeding” award from the Association of California School Administrators. Superintendent Shawn Tennenbaum presented the award to Lorenzo, who was honored by Baler staff, administrators and...

In life, there's rarely a free lunch, but there might be more gratuitous meals for students in the Hollister School District next year.

A May 18 lockdown of Hollister High School was triggered by a glitch in the school’s alarm system that sent out a false alert of a campus emergency, according to law enforcement and school officials.  Police responded to the live report of a potential emergency...