Education
- Fifth-graders have fun, learn lessons at Yuba City Unified track meet
- Competition teaches good sportsmanship
- By Ashley Gebb/ADagebb
- The Riverbend Elementary quartet hugged each other quickly, with promises to run fast and cheer themselves on.
"I'll yell your name so loud, you'll think your mom is here," Ashton Dunham, 11, told her relay teammates. "You can do this — you're... Full story
- Education Briefs
- Appeal-Democrat staff report
- Arboga
Time capsule to be unearthed
Former and present students and the public are invited to Arboga Elementary School next week as a time capsule placed by its fifth-grade class in 2002 is opened after 10 years.
The event is at 6 p.m. May 31. The... Full story
- Classroom Notes
- Appeal-Democrat staff report
- Lincoln Elementary School
Yuba City
• The fourth-grade classes of Kathy Reynolds, Durell Siplin, Liz Micheli and Beth Leslie will participate in the interactive Walk Through California today and Friday.
• An awards assembly for first-gra... Full story
- Brownie Troop No. 4095 serves community
- Appeal-Democrat staff report
- Girls in Brownie Troop No. 4095, composed of second-graders at St. Isidore Catholic School in Yuba City and troop leader Rose McIsaac, recently participated in two service projects.
On March 26, the girls delivered 10 infant care kits to Children's ... Full story
- Sutter High group donates Kindles to Meridian Elementary
- By Ashley Gebb/ADagebb
- There are no sounds of turning pages, no dog-eared edges, no missing covers.
When seventh-graders at Meridian Elementary School begin their group reading lessons, instead of pulling tired paperbacks from their desks, they bust out tech-savvy Kindles... Full story
- Education Briefs
- Appeal-Democrat staff report
- Mid-Valley
Page honored for ROP service
The Association of California School Administrators has named Randy Page, director of the Tri-County Regional Occupational Program, as 2012 State Career Technical Education Administrator of the Year.
He was ... Full story
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- Find children's books to treasure
- Best-sellers not always the best selections
- By Kendal A. Rautzhan/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Some think that just because a children's book has sold gobs of copies it equates into a book that is a "must read." Well, that might be true in some cases. However, it's not true in all instances.
A great deal of any book's success has to do with t... Full story
- Bruce's History Lesson: Constantine’s conversion key to Christianity today
- The Emperor Constantine, the first Christian ruler of the Roman empire and the man who ended the persecution of Christianity, died this week (May 22) in 337, having lived a life that would change the world.
Born a pagan, as were the vast majority of... Full story
- Take time to reflect on Memorial Day
- By Rose Godfrey/For the Appeal-Democrat
- A dozen years ago, I ordered two flags that had been flown over the Capitol building. I wanted them to commemorate the adoptions of my two oldest children, and figured I'd save the flags to give to my kids when they were older. The problem was, I pai... Full story
High School Beats
- Foul is fair in East Nic's Macbeth'
- By Kelsey Barrett/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Spring comes with a lot of new things, especially the spring drama production. A group of talented actors in East Nicolaus High School's Theatre Arts Department recently performed William Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
The ENHS drama troupe worked relentl... Full story
- Students share service in Mexico
- By Elizabeth Andrus/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Spring break is traditionally a time for students to relax, hang out with friends and sleep in. Not so for a group of 30 students from Faith Christian High School. These kids — freshmen through seniors — instead chose to spend their vacat... Full story
- Gridley students anticipate year's end
- By Holly Anderson/For the Appeal-Democrat
- With just a month and a half of this school year left, the anticipation of graduation is becoming greater and greater for seniors at Gridley High School. The warm weather puts a spring in our steps and a smile of sunshine on our lips. Summer is almos... Full story
- Graduation countdown is nearly over
- By Jamie Yang/For the Appeal-Democrat
- The countdown to graduation is close to an end, and by fall this year, current Lindhurst High School seniors will be dispersed all across California.
Many of us at LHS are low-income, first-generation American minority students, and if statistics pr... Full story
- The end is just the beginning
- By Ciria Salazar/For the Appeal-Democrat
- The phrase "the end" instills a multitude of thoughts and opinions, which largely rely on what exactly is ending. For students, the end of the school year unleashes emotions that differ from student to student. Some may be excited, waiting for the lo... Full story
- And this is how to sling mud
- By Natalie Landau/For the Appeal-Democrat
- For the graduating class of Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts, the coming presidential election has been somewhat eclipsed by the excitement of leaving school. Nonetheless, it is a topic that should be of utmost importance to all Americans of v... Full story
- Past reflections, future hopes
- By Courtney Ngai/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Four years of high school are filled with happiness, anger, sadness and every other emotion that your hormones are causing. Since another year is about to end at Marysville High School, we pause to reflect about the past.
High school can be categori... Full story
- Count your blessings
- By Leanna Whiteley/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Have you stopped to think about how blessed you are? Has the thought ever crossed your mind? Let me tell you — for me, these thoughts have been consuming my mind.
Coming into the second semester and thinking of how different my life will be wi... Full story
- It's our time to become great
- By Manjinder Singh/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Four years. Four years seems like such a long time at the beginning but virtually nothing at the end. For the graduating seniors at River Valley High School, these are the final days of our high school career. The emotions mix with excitement about s... Full story
- Horrifying scene sends message
- By Nola and Jayna Dodd/For the Appeal-Democrat
- The Every 15 Minutes program changed many perspectives at Sutter Union High School. The Chico Police Department started this program in 1995 based on the statistic that someone dies as the result of an alcohol-related car collision every 15 minutes.
... Full story
- Make memories you won't regret
- By Natalie Ross/For the Appeal-Democrat
- There comes a time during your senior year when you're faced with many stressful things at once: scholarships, grades, your social life — and don't forget prom.
During the second semester of your senior year, all of the stresses and burdens of... Full story
- Music benefits students
- By Greg Geraldo/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Here at Yuba City High School, music plays a large part in daily life. When asked to name three musical artists at random, Brandon Taylor, a junior, said, "Lil Wayne, Drake and Led Zeppelin," but when asked to name three composers, he stuttered with ... Full story
