Schools

Just before the photo, former Raider Michael Dotterer looked at the camera and grinned, while wheelchair bound San Benito High School student Nino Gutierrez looked at the football player and smiled.

San Benito High School senior Jericho Coquilla earned third place in the annual Congressional Art Competition hosted by the office of Congressman Sam Farr, D-Carmel.

At the May meeting, Gavilan College trustees unanimously approved the appointments of two new vice presidents.

A Hollister grade school teacher led more than a dozen students and parents in collecting an estimated 500 pounds of plastic wrappers, cigarette butts and trash at Veterans Memorial Park last month.

In San Benito County, 30 school district board of education trustee positions and three positions with the county office of education will be up for grabs this year in elections.

When County Superintendent Mike Sanchez retires from his position after more than 40 years in education, San Benito High School Principal Krystal Lomanto is set to take his place at the helm of the county's public school system.

Eighty-seven Gavilan College students earned a place on the President's Honor Roll for Fall Semester 2013. To be placed on the President's Honor roll, a student must earn a 3.5 or higher grade point average in at least 15 units during a single semester. This honor is noted on students' transcripts.

Hollister School District’s Pam Little took home the award for the Elementary School Principal of the Year for San Benito, Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.

Faced with a trend of slightly tardy students, the Hollister School District will roll out a new policy next year: letters home to the parents of students who are chronically late to class by one to 29 minutes.

Hollister School District trustees this week gave authority to post more than $1.3 million worth of new staff positions ahead of the approval for next school year's budget so they could advertise the jobs before summertime and get the largest possible candidate pool.