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Morgan Hill dancer Ryan Ramirez will be performing in an upcoming dance concert as a member of the pre-professional Teen Dance Company of the Bay Area. Ramirez is 14 years old and has been dancing for 10 years. Last year Ramirez auditioned for the company and became one of its youngest members. She's an eighth-grade student at the Oakwood Country School where she has earned a 4.0-grade-point average. She will be attending Saint Francis High School in the fall.

While listening to assurances that no Morgan Hill School

Gilroy and Morgan Hill Unified school districts got their final piece of the $1.25 billion block grant from the state today, Tuesday, as State Superintendent Tom Torlakson announced the second-half release of funds to support their move to the Common Core academic standards.

A $2.2 million federal stimulus grant could put 200 local

Morgan Hill resident Rebecca Blessing was among more than 1,500 St. Olaf College students recognized for academic achievement at the college's annual Honors Day convocation May 5. Blessing is a junior at St. Olaf, a Northfield, Minn.-based four-year college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Of the four School Board trustees that were served with recall