Prep Roundup: Jan. 5
Gilroy matched Branham point for point in the second and third quarters Saturday, but it wasn't enough to come away with a win.Â
Gavilan Roundup: Jan. 5
The Gavilan men's basketball team dropped its fourth straight game, falling 93-63 to Columbia College in Sonora Saturday.Â
Prep Basketball: High pressure system blows in from the northern Gilroy
A rivalry on paper hardly translated to one on the floor as the Christopher boys basketball team easily handled Gilroy, 68-33 Friday night.
Scrapbook Dec. 28, 2014-Jan. 3, 2015
HONORS: Stephanie Wan: More than 3,000 students graduated from Tufts University on May 18, 2014 during a university-wide commencement ceremony with public policy expert Anne Marie Slaughter as the speaker. The graduates from the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering included Stephanie Wan, of Morgan Hill, with a bachelor's degree. Tufts University, located on three Massachusetts campuses in Boston, Medford/Somerville and Grafton, and in Talloires, France, is recognized among the premier research universities in the United States.
Kids in the Kitchen
In this corner, weighing in at approximately 50 pounds and an imposing height of 4 feet 5 inches tall, is spunky Alexis Higgins. In the opposite corner, 18 other kids (ages 8 to 13), and three absolutely intimidating judges. The challenge: knock the socks off the judges with the best dish they have ever tasted and win the hearts of America.
Students learn history from the trenches
It is a gray, wet afternoon as rain drips through the redwoods on the Mount Madonna School (MMS) campus. A group of 10th- and 11th-grade students are spotted bustling outside of their classroom, full of nerves and anticipation. Most are adorned in camouflage with black smudges of paint under their eyes. To the casual observer it might appear that these students are preparing for a theatrical production. In reality, this is the beginning of a reenactment of trench warfare and is the culmination of a unit examining World War I in teacher Amy Neff's social studies course.
Prep Roundup: Dec. 31
There was no questioning which team would take home the top prize at the California Coast Wrestling Classic.Â
Prep Basketball: Gunther leads Acorns past Gilroy
MORGAN HILL—Live Oak captain Amy Gunther said she’s more an assist player, but that didn’t stop her from knocking down baskets all night long.
Murder suspect to submit a plea Jan. 13
A man suspected of stabbing a 74-year-old Gilroy woman to death is scheduled to submit a plea Jan. 13, after he turned himself in earlier this month.
