When Chris Niemann – a music aficionado currently in his senior year at Ann Sobrato High School – was a toddler, he always talked at such a high volume that his parents decided his hearing should be tested.
The Morgan Hill Unified Board of Education made a bold and united stand Tuesday, keeping it in the family and appointing Steve Betando as the interim superintendent for the departing Wes Smith, who notified the district last week that he will be leaving at the end of June.
Wes Smith, Superintendent of the Morgan Hill Unified School District for 3.5 years, has accepted an offer to serve as the Executive Director of the Association of California School Administrators effective July 1.
Yosemite’s Cloud’s Rest, at 9,926 feet, beckons in July for 50 or so hiking enthusiasts who gathered for an 8.5 mile training excursion recently at the Rancho Cañada del Oro Open Space Preserve.
Morgan Hill resident Maxine Nelson, a former cattle rancher whose family ran livestock on what is now Cinnabar Hills golf course just west of town, turned 100 last week, and she offered a straightforward line of advice for anyone who hopes to live for a century.
Authorities are investigating a collision in west Morgan Hill that sent two children to the hospital, and police think one of the adult drivers involved in the accident was impaired.
In the midst of an ongoing undercover operation to nab grownups trying to purchase alcohol for minors, Morgan Hill Police have arrested five adult suspects so far as a result of the “shoulder tap” initiative.