A Santa Maria Future Farmers of America (FFA) team placed fourth at the recent National FFA Milk Quality and Dairy Products Contest. The Santa Maria Milk Quality and Dairy Products Team, coached by Mark Powell, consists of high school juniors Jennifer De Leon and Ariana Romero-Gutierrez, and seniors Rosalva Diaz and Monserrat Nolasco. Nolasco, in […]
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Santa Maria high schools begin installing solar panels
The installation of solar panels at several Santa Maria high schools began on Oct. 23, and the new solar energy systems are expected to save the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District millions in utility fees. Parking lots at Pioneer Valley and Ernest Righetti high schools, and a grassy area at Delta High School, […]
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Allan Hancock College takes action in support of DACA and undocumented students
As the U.S. Congress battles over plans to revoke the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, students, faculty, and staff at Allan Hancock College are busy showing support for DACA recipients. Members of Hancock’s Academic Senate presented a signed resolution formally opposing DACA’s elimination to the board of trustees at a board meeting on […]
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Former patients and families invited to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit celebration
Marian Regional Medical Center will host the fourth annual Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduation Celebration on Nov. 4. The event will include an opportunity for toddlers who were born premature to reunite with the caregivers who nurtured them to health immediately after birth. Former patients and their families are invited to the celebration at the […]
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Allan Hancock College eligible for $1 million prize
Allan Hancock College announced Oct. 11 that it was named, for the fourth time, one of the nation’s top 150 community colleges by the Aspen Institute, which began ranking community colleges in 2011. Hancock’s rank makes the school eligible for the 2019 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, which includes a $1 million reward. The […]
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Pioneer Valley’s Performing Arts Center to open its curtains in November
In celebration of the grand opening of Santa Maria Joint Union High School District’s new Performing Arts Center, Pioneer Valley High School students will stick it to the man on Nov. 2 with an exclusive performance of School of Rock the Musical. The production, based on the 2003 film starring Jack Black, was written by […]
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Pioneer Valley drama students talk face to face with PCPA actor
Pioneer Valley High School drama students talked race, death, marriage, and professional theater on Sept. 29 with Derrick Lee Weeden, the Pacific Conservatory Theatre’s (PCPA) guest actor and lead in its recent production of Fences. Pioneer Valley drama teacher Shawnah Van Gronigen said that on Sept. 21, many of her students watched Fences, a Pulitzer […]
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Santa Maria natives win prestigious California State University Trustees’ Award
The California State University (CSU) system recently announced the recipients of the CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement, and of this year’s 23 statewide winners, two are Santa Maria natives. Jeremiah Hernandez, 29, and Amanda Garcia, 30, were chosen above thousands of CSU students as recipients of the award, which is given to those who […]
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Santa Maria High School students preregister to vote with state politicians
When California State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) was in high school, she watched angrily as her 18-year-old male classmates were forced into fighting a war many of them disagreed with in Vietnam. What was most frustrating, Jackson told a crowd of Santa Maria High School students on Sept. 20, was that 18-year-olds at the […]
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Golf tournament to benefit Guadalupe Union School District
The Guadalupe Kids Come First Foundation will host its fourth annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser on Sept. 30 in an effort to raise money for the Guadalupe Union School District’s academic, athletic, and cultural programs. The Kids Come First Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the school district through funding and gifts in-kind, according to […]
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Hancock’s Concert Band to perform Fall Pops Concert
The Allan Hancock College Concert Band will perform its annual Fall Pops Concert on Sept. 30 at Santa Maria’s First Baptist Church. The concert, according to a Hancock press release, will include an eclectic mix of musical selections from “Regal Fanfare” to “Pop and Rock Legends: Elton John.” The band, under the direction of Greg […]
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Santa Maria High School District passes 1 percent salary increase
The Santa Maria Joint Union High School District announced on Sept. 7 the ratification of its retroactive 1 percent salary increase for all employees, effective July 1. Leaders of the Faculty and California School Employees associations tentatively agreed on the salary increase just before Aug. 18, after months of negotiations with the school district. Both […]
