Schools

Give yourself some mid-week music therapy by attending one (or both!) of the Spring Concerts featuring the Christopher and Gilroy High School choirs.

Teaching and Learning with Monarch Butterflies, a two-day workshop combining classroom and field experiences, will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 20-21 at Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park, located at 3050 Hecker Pass Highway in Gilroy.

Drama instructor Kate Booth took 12 Christopher High School students in October to the world-renowned Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore.

McDonald’s restaurant in Gilroy donated $800 to Brownell Middle School as part of their McTeacher’s Night fundraiser that the First Street restaurant hosted in late-March.

The word “slut” strikes miscellaneous cords.

The Gavilan College Ceramics Department is hosting a spring pottery sale from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. today, and from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday in the arts quad, located on campus at 5055 Santa Teresa Blvd.

Attention, high school seniors: College money is out there. Reach out and grab it!

Out of 69,000 public schools examined across the nation, the Gilroy Unified School District was one of hundreds found to have high concentrations of suspicious test scores that indicate cheating, according to the results of a controversial study conducted and recently published by the newspaper Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Saint Mary Church and School on First Street will say goodbye to two of its esteemed leaders who have served the community of Gilroy for decades: One is a principal, the other a priest.