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The Brentwood Concert Band is teaming up once again with the Liberty High School Symphonic Band in the second annual Benefit Concert for the Bruce Stuart Music Fund. Sue Stuart and Carey Hurst will...
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As the winter chill of the new year nips at our noses, the thought of being whisked away to Hawaii sounds heavenly, but that will soon be a reality for students in the Heritage and Liberty high sch...
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Beginning in July, some incoming middle school students in the Oakley Union School District (OUSD) might be attending a different junior high school than they had planned on, thanks to a change in ...
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Jeanne Turner is proud of her recent honor as an Educator of the Year nominee, but not for the usual reasons.
“It was very exciting to have had the experience and to be considered (for the award),”...
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The Liberty Union High School District Board of Education recently honored Jaye Buhlis as the district’s Community Volunteer of the Quarter. Buhlis is one of Freedom High School’s longest-serving v...
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Attendance areas for Liberty, Freedom and Heritage High Schools have been established in order to balance enrollment throughout the Liberty Union High School District’s schools.
Students who live w...
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A recently published list of honor students at Edna Hill Middle School was incomplete. The following students were named to the Honor Society for the school’s second quarter:
Idara Akpakpa, Zachary...
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Last fall when Melanie Jones broached the idea of creating a homework club/mentor program, teaming Deer Valley High School teens with her own elementary school students, the Diablo Vista principal ...
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Claire Smith, the longest-serving member of the board of the Antioch Unified School District, was recently selected by board members to serve as board president, replacing two-year President Walter...
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Recognizing students for their hard work and individual efforts is the favorite part of Liberty High School Principal Tim Halloran’s job. At a recent LUHSD board meeting, Halloran praised Liberty H...
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Congratulations to the following students for earning a place on the Honor Roll and Honor Society for the second quarter at Edna Hill Middle School:
Honor Roll, Sixth Grade: Amber Aeschbach, Otue...
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Congratulations to the following Orchard Park School Students of the Month for exemplifying Fairness, the Pillar of Character for December: in the front row, from left, are Isabella Montes, Ella Wh...
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Heritage High School recently announced its Students of the Quarter for the second quarter of the school year. In the front row, from left, are Jamie Baron – Science; Jessica Stai – Math; Andrew Wh...
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I am sitting face-to-face with a cleric inside a mosque in Lumbini, a Buddhist Holy City in Southern Nepal. The cleric is Arab – we make eye contact as he runs his fingers through his short beard, ...
Dec 23, 2009 | 0 | 9 |
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Students at Old River School in the Knightsen School District opened their hearts and their piggy banks this fall during the Kids Helping Kids (KHK) Piglets for Change program.
Since October, stud...
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A popular Freedom High School teacher was killed last week when his motorcycle struck a city street sweeper.
According to Oakley Police Chief Chris Thorsen, Antioch resident Charles Edgle Smith, 56...
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At Independence High School’s recent Poetry Out Loud competition, 11 students memorized and recited their poems in front of judges, family, friends, faculty, staff and District Superintendent Jerry...
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Mission Elementary School’s Citizen of the Month program recognized the followng students for exemplifying Citizenship – the character trait for the month of November:
In the front row, from left, ...
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Last week’s Liberty Union High School District (LUHSD) Board meeting took a festive turn, as the Freedom High School Choral Group, conducted by Director Eli Souza, performed holiday music for the c...
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The Liberty Union High School District Board of Trustees recognized two employees who are retiring after serving the district nearly 60 years between them.
Cafeteria worker Gladys (Sue) Standridge...