Schools

The South County Airport Pilots Association awarded scholarships worth a total of $15,000 to five students who are pursuing flight and maintenance training. Each student—including two who are studying at Gavilan College—was awarded a $3,000 scholarship.  This year’s program drew the largest and most competitive...

In a continuing effort to change the landscape of Morgan Hill Unified School District schools, the local board of education unanimously approved the transition of Paradise Valley Elementary School into an engineering focus academy for the 2016-17 year.

Thirteen bands played to a crowded gym March 3 during Sobrato High School's Battle of the Bands. The annual contest attracts student bands and local amateurs. 'Good Intentions,' and 'The Figureheads,'along with the rest of the lineup, kept the crowd on their feet during the four-hour show. Live Oak High School held its 'Battle of the Bands' Saturday.

A son of a teenage mother and an absentee father, longtime Morgan Hill resident Adam Escoto was turned over to foster care at 10 years old. His mother had given up parental rights. By age 15, Escoto had attended seven different high schools while...

In 2017, Shirley Higdon and her neighbor Diane Holmes realized the High Speed Rail train that had been endorsed by Californians a decade earlier might be running right through their quiet street close to U.S. 101.

Morgan Hill's Teachers Aid Coalition, a nonprofit organization which helps local teachers receive much-needed school supplies, is having its annual "Harvest Wine Tasting" event at Clos LaChance Winery located at One Hummingbird Lane off Watsonville Road in San Martin at 5:30pm, Oct. 19.

Gavilan College President Steve Kinsella’s $42,000 salary raise is under fire again – this time because a local Latino advocacy group alleges the Gavilan College board violated the Brown Act in an October meeting when they approved increasing his pay from $234,090 to $276,090 by 2015.

Thanks to cost savings reported on previous school bond projects throughout the district, one of Morgan Hill Unified School District’s elementary sites is getting a bigger modernization boost than originally expected.