NEWMAN - A long-time nutrition services employee of the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District has been honored by the California School Employee Association (CSEA), which represents classified school staff members.
NEWMAN - Parents in the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District recently had the opportunity to share their thoughts on what safety precautions and educational needs should be priorities when a new school year opens.
NEWMAN - Voters in the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District will be asked to approve a $26 million bond measure in November to fund a variety of future facility projects.
GUSTINE - Our Lady of Miracles Catholic School will open in August, with a new principal at the helm.
NEWMAN - A number of long-time Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District employees retired at the conclusion of the school year.
A number of Gustine Middle School eighth-graders received traditional year-end awards recently.
NEWMAN - Members of the Orestimba High Class of 2020 received a number of senior awards.
Members of the Gustine High Sober Grad committee honored the Class of 2020 by lining a campus fence with senior photos last week.
NEWMAN - The Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District is asking its employees to take three unpaid furlough days in the 2020-21 fiscal year to help reduce a budget shortfall.
NEWMAN - A number of Yolo Middle School eighth-graders were recently honored with year-end awards.
GUSTINE - Gustine High English teacher Cheri Rowton, one of the Gustine Unified School District’s longest-tenured educators, is stepping into retirement after 33 years in the classroom.
GUSTINE - A survey weighing voter sentiments toward a potential November bond measure yielded no clear conclusions, the Gustine Unified School District Board of Trustees was advised at a May 20 special meeting.
NEWMAN - Voters in the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District, who rejected a school bond in March, may be asked again in November to approve a measure to fund facilities.
GUSTINE - School officials in Gustine plan to hold graduation vehicle processions next week in lieu of the traditional eighth-grade promotion ceremony and high school commencement.
GUSTINE - Graduating seniors at Gustine High gathered last Wednesday to record a few thoughts and words for posterity via videotape.
GUSTINE - The Our Lady of Miracles Catholic School Parents Club will host virtual silent and live auctions as well as a takeout dinner this year as part of its annual Spring Festival fund-raiser.
Our Lady of Miracles Catholic School staff members hosted a drive-by ice cream social for their students Monday evening in front of the Linden Avenue campus. Students also stopped for a selfie with Principal Chandra Brace, left, and Director Melissa Meneses before departing. Above, Kayla Esq…
Local high school seniors anticipating the college experience at a California State University campus next fall expressed disappointment at the recent announcement that CSU courses will predominantly be on line through the first semester.
GUSTINE - School board members recently gave their blessing to changes in the Gustine High valedictorian/salutatorian policy and fine-tuned graduation requirements.
The Von Renner Head Start held a “drive-by” graduation celebration recently for students who will be moving on to other programs at the start of next school year. Staff members and the few remaining youngsters being served by the program (the children of essential workers) greeted their stud…
Coronavirus threw traditional educational settings into upheaval two months ago.
GUSTINE - Seven weeks after their senior year abruptly ended, members of the Gustine High Class of 2020 returned to campus for the first time last Wednesday to pick up their graduation caps and gowns.
GUSTINE - A half-million dollar renovation of the Gustine High gymnasium is moving forward.
Even as they wrap up a school year unlike any other, leaders of local districts have little information on what form public education will take in the fall.
GUSTINE - The Gustine Unified School District has begun trimming its budget for next year in anticipation of losing up to 10 percent - if not more - of its per pupil funding next year.
Local school districts are striving to meet the social-emotional needs of students while delivering distance learning and virtual education during the coronavirus crisis.
A reunion of Orestimba High School graduates from 1978 and all earlier years planned for this October has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Gustine High campus is quiet and the stadium empty as schools have physically closed and shifted to distance learning, but the senior class of 2020 is far from forgotten. The GHS stadium lights are shining brightly for 20 minutes and 20 seconds each Friday evening (starting at 8:20 p.m.,…
NEWMAN - The COVID-19 crisis which has shuttered school campuses and prompted a shift to distance learning as a short-term alternative to traditional education may also significantly disrupt school budgets, Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District trustees were recently advised.
GUSTINE - A new model of education was launched Monday in the Gustine Unified School District, as students and teachers embarked on remote distance learning via technology.
GUSTINE - Gustine High senior Madison Woods was recently named the state FFA proficiency award winner in sheep production.
GUSTINE - The critical findings of a team of visiting educators who evaluated Gustine High School last fall led an accrediting committee to put the school on notice that it has one year to show progress in addressing issues identified.
Two community-based scholarship organizations which have helped hundreds of Orestimba and Gustine High graduates pursue their higher education dreams over the last two-plus decades will be doing so once again this year.
The Gustine Unified School District has expanded its meal program to serve free dinner as well as breakfast and lunch to youth under 18 years of age. Participants pick up all three daily meals at weekday distribution points in Gustine and Santa Nella. Organizers said the meal program has bee…
A number of Yolo Middle School entries in the annual National History Day competition will advance to the state competition after strong showings at the Stanislaus County event.
NEWMAN - Newman-Crows Landing students will not be returning to the traditional classroom this spring.
GUSTINE - With schools unlikely to re-open for standard instruction this spring, Gustine Unified School District is rolling out a distance learning program.
Newman 4-H Club member Cailin Casey participated in the California Rabbit and Cavy Breeders Association convention held Feb. 21-23. Casey’s Lynx Palomino, Briar Rose Rabbitry’s Destiny, was named best of breed Palomino in the Cal State Rare Breed Show. Casey was awarded several best of breed…
The Newman-Crows Landing District is continuing to serve free meals to youth 1-18 weekdays during the COVID-19 school closure. Starting this week, the district was handing out dinners as well as breakfast and lunch at various distribution points. Officials said nearly 900 youth are being ser…
School custodians and maintenance workers spent the first week or more of the school shutdown in the Gustine and Newman-Crows Landing districts deep cleaning and sanitizing campuses.
Classroom instruction, spring sports and a host of school-related activities have come to a halt with the statewide closure of schools due to the COVID-19 crisis.
High school seniors eagerly anticipating class trips, prom, commencement and so much more in the busy final weeks of their time at Orestimba and Gustine high schools last week found themselves facing the new reality that those special moments may never be experienced.
The Gustine Unified School District has launched a free meal program to serve youth under the age of 18 through the closure of local schools. Above, workers distributed meals Friday at Gustine Elementary School. See A2 for story.
In light of the uncertainty about whether schools will re-open before the end of the school year, a number of seniors at Orestimba High took matters into their own hands last Wednesday by holding their own impromptu graduation ceremony. Wearing caps and gowns left over from their Yolo Middle…
Army recruiters visiting the Orestimba High campus recently made their presence known with an impressive truck parked in the school quad.
On March 7, UC Davis held the first field day in California for the FFA judging teams. Gustine FFA had multiple teams attend the competition, including food science, floral judging, livestock judging, dairy judging and meat judging.
Orestimba High recently held a preview day for visiting Yolo Middle School eighth-graders. OHS senior Robert Shull conducted a demonstration in the school’s welding shop. .
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