Schools

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.

There have been no confirmed cases of measles in San Benito County since a person infected with the virus visited Costco and Walmart in Gilroy on Jan. 18.

Spring Grove student Audyn Diaz wrote carefully on the giant, red card.

Students at Calaveras School, R.O. Hardin School and Marguerite Maze Middle School will be building rubber band-powered cars and marble roller coasters after school starting next month.

Hollister School District teachers are asking for a 4 percent raise, but the board president cited uncertainties with the new state funding formula and a desire to upgrade facilities in countering the proposed salary increase.

San Benito High School District trustees this week approved new graduation requirements for the freshmen class of 2016-17 that include courses mandated for admission to California State University or University of California schools.