Schools

Students from across the county in public, private and home school education programs participated in the 16^th Annual San Benito County Spelling Bee. First and second place spellers will represent the county in the state championships. Here’s a list of the winners:

Two teenage girls are taking the 4-H motto—“to make the best better”—to heart.

Contractors have finished a plywood shell for eight permanent classrooms, which will take the place of nine portables previously at Aromas School.

Students at Aromas School—where the Internet connection is “significantly below adequate” now—will be able to take their standardized tests online this year thanks to a new state grant, said Superintendent Ruben Zepeda.

The San Benito County Office of Education will be hosting a workshop about the Brown Act from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in the multipurpose room at San Andreas Continuation High School at 191 Alvarado St. in Hollister.

Aromas-San Juan Unified School District trustees voted 4-0 to approve $36,000 in grant money to purchase and install playground equipment at the district’s Tom Connolly “Mi Escuelita” Preschool at their regularly scheduled board meeting this week.

Gavilan College trustees Tuesday unanimously approved reconfiguring an “underutilized portion” of the Child Development Center to centralize office space for employees currently housed across campus.

Gavilan College board Tuesday voted to change the ASB name to Associated Students of Gavilan College (ASGC), a name that the majority of students chose in a survey in the fall of 2014.

Hollister Future Farmers of America is calling all San Benito High School Alumni and community members to participate in the traditional FFA Tub Races on March 5 during lunch.

A representative of the revised Panoche Valley Solar Project asked Gavilan College trustees Tuesday to consider a letter of support for it. The board voted in support of the project with Board President Walt Glines casting the lone dissenting vote.