Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday selected former Santa Monica High School Principal Ilene Straus to serve on the state Board of Education, according to reports.
CITY HALL — Over the next five years, City Hall planned to build over 300 affordable apartments, help fund improvements at Santa Monica High School, develop a 6-acre park in the Civic Center and build a new library in the Pico Neighborhood — all with the help of more than $280 million in redevelopme
CITYWIDE — The boys’ basketball teams from Santa Monica-based St. Monica and Crossroads held on to their top-10 rankings, according to the latest California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division 5AA poll released Monday.
SANTA ANA — There’s one thing for certain about the girls from Santa Monica: they are battle tested. The latest action came Saturday at national powerhouse Mater Dei.
SAMOHI — As the visual and performing arts coordinator and jazz band director, Tom Whaley has had the pleasure of mentoring many talented musicians, but one stands out from the rest.
Santa Monica High School defenders Lidla Chirstina Battaglia (left) and Mikka Alemania (right) chase West’s Megan Yapelli on Friday at John Adams Middle School.
NCAA FOOTBALL GLENDALE, Ariz. — For a guy who never played center before, Oregon’s Max Forer seems to have picked up the position like he was born to play it.
SANTA ANA — Looks like Marty Verdugo is getting his wish. Santa Monica High School’s head girls’ basketball coach came into the season looking to play some of the best teams in the nation.
DOWNTOWN — New Year’s resolutions: Everybody makes them, almost everybody breaks them. In an attempt to make it a little more difficult to renege this year, the Daily Press checked in with a range of local movers and shakers and put them on the record with their 2011 promises.
DOWNTOWN — You could say Santa Monica had a little bit of everything in 2010. From the bizarre — like the revelation back in March that celebrated local sushi restaurant The Hump was illegally selling whale meat — to the heartwarming — like the successful grassroots effort to save the financially ch
SAMOHI — The Santa Monica High School girls’ volleyball team had a lot to celebrate in November at the end of their season after winning the regular season Ocean League title and qualifying for the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section playoffs.
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Despite a slow 0-2 start at the elite Nike Tournament of Champions, Santa Monica High School’s girls’ basketball team finished strong, winning its final two games to take home 13th place in the field of 16 teams from across the nation and Canada.
