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All hail Homecoming royalty
Sep 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Homecoming King Gage Van Emmerick and Queen Crystal Cummings wave to the crowd during Liberty’s Homecoming Parade last Friday. The parade featured performances by the Liberty cheer and dance teams ...
Literacy encouraged at OUESD workshop
Sep 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
For the second consecutive year, the Oakley Union Elementary School District is partnering with the City of Oakley’s You, Me, We Oakley program to host Leer Para Crecer – Read to Grow – a literacy ...
Favorite teacher contest underway
Sep 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The Barnes & Noble My Favorite Teacher program, which provides middle and high school students the opportunity to tell their communities how much they appreciate their teachers, is holding its My F...
Dressing Up for Homecoming
Sep 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The Freedom High School class of 2013’s ranch-themed ride took first prize in the Homecoming float contest last week. This year’s theme was Dressing Up, so each class decorated a float inspired by ...
Truth about nicotine addiction revealed
Sep 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 09-12-12 600AM The public is invited to Inside the Dark Side: The Science behind Nicotine Addiction and the Lies of the Tobacco Industry, an informative program held Tuesday,...
Peachy adventure
Sep 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
More than 100 actors and technical crew join forces to present the stage version of “James and the Giant Peach” at Excelsior Middle School in performances running from Sept. 18 to 28. Roald Dahl’s ...
Ed foundation vies for $250K grant
Sep 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Liberty Union High School District ED Foundation (LUHSD ED Foundation), a nonprofit working to enhance and enrich the district’s educational programs, is competing with charities nationwide for gra...
Super scholars
Sep 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Loma Vista Elementary students came back to school ready to learn. Congratulations to the following Loma Vista Students of the Month for August: Kindergarten: Haylely Adams, Gianni Cabrera, Antho...
Literacy celebrated
Sep 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Liberty Adult Education (LAE), a division of the Liberty Union High School District, and the National Coalition for Literacy (NCL) invite the public to celebrate National Adult Education and Family...
Internship a tidy task
Aug 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Mason Miller, a Project SEARCH member, recently joined Team Oakley as a facility maintenance intern. Project SEARCH, a program sponsored by the Liberty Union High School District and Futures Explor...
Marsh students get first-day surprise
by Samie Hartley
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
The first day of school always radiates an aura of excitement, but for the students at Marsh Elementary School, the exhilaration was magnified by electric smiles charged by the generosity of a loca...
Panthers pounce onto the Red Zone
by Ruth Roberts
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
In football, the Red Zone is the area between the 20-yard line and the goal – the place where strategies change and games can be won or lost. The Delta Vista Middle School Panthers have created a R...
Excellence recognized at Edna Hill Middle School
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Congratulations to the following Edna Hill Middle School students for being named to the Honor Roll and Honor Society for the fourth academic quarter: HONOR ROLL Jesus Acevedo, Amber Rose Aeschba...
Booster bonanza
Aug 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Heritage High School athletics recently received a big boost: a check for $29,283.50 by the Heritage Athletic Booster Club from fundraising during the 2011-12 school year. Athletic Director Pat Cru...
Back to class
Aug 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Jack London Elementary School teacher Karen Colgan addresses one of her students on the first day of school last Wednesday. Wednesday was the first day of class for Antioch’s 19,000 students in 25 ...
MOB has their backs
Aug 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Mothers of Brentwood (MOB) recently held its eighth annual Backpack Drive, providing 110 backpacks and school supplies for underprivileged children in the Brentwood Unified School District. Brentwo...
Races set for November election
Aug 16, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
Updated: 8-17-12 10:50 a.m. The candidate filing period for this year’s November election closed Wednesday.
The Internet and you
Aug 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
For better or for worse, the Internet touches all our lives. E-mail, social networking, advertising, tracking and shopping are a few ways this technological marvel has changed our society. “The Int...
Charges possible in football team hazing
by Ruth Roberts
Aug 09, 2012 | 29 29 comments | 67 67 recommendations | email to a friend
UPDATED: 8-9-12 at 10:50 a.m. Five Liberty High School varsity football players have been kicked off the team and face possible criminal charges following an incident of hazing at a summer football...
Antioch High ballot measure returns
by Kyle Szymanski
Aug 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Antioch voters will again be asked to fund improvements to Antioch High School when they go to the polls in November. The $56 million ballot measure, unanimously approved by the school board July 2...