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When fifth-year principal Claudia Olaciregui talks about the array of programs and services at San Martin Gwinn Environmental Science Academy, her face lights up with joy and genuine belief that there is no better school for students and families.

It's about two weeks before the start of school and Britton Middle School's new principal, Nanette Donahue, is already on campus, getting acquainted with the staff and faculty that she will lead into the 2018-19 school term.

The Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Trustees will convene for an Aug. 7 meeting, more than a month after their previous meeting, to an abbreviated agenda that includes only three general business items.

*This story and candidate list was updated Aug. 6.

The Santa Clara County Farm Bureau awarded college scholarships to local high school graduates seeking to major in agriculture.

A measure asking the voters for $248 million worth of bonds to upgrade Gavilan College's main campus, as well as its Coyote Valley and San Benito County satellite sites, will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot.

Two of the four members who sit on the Gavilan Joint Community College District Board of Trustees and whose districts run through San Benito County will not seek re-election in November.

Gavilan College announced July 11 the selection of Denee Pescarmona as the local community college’s new vice president of academic affairs.

As many as five new faces could be seated on the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s governing dais come November, with two trustees saying they will not seek re-election, two others undecided and another prematurely resigning prior to his term’s completion.

Trustee Anna Song will act as the Vice President of the Santa Clara County Board of Education, after being unanimously voted in by her colleagues June 20.