SMMUSD HDQTRS — Despite severe funding cuts at the state level, education officials last week decided it was more important to bring back counselors than to save money.
DOWNTOWN — Megan Kilroy’s favorite place to go in town is the Santa Monica Pier. She thinks its crowded and touristy, but she loves looking out over the edge and watching the waves crash against the pillars.
SAMOHI — School has been out for nearly a month, but for Santa Monica’s boys’ basketball team, class is still in session. While their friends might be enjoying the warm weather or relaxing by the beach, the players have been spending much of their summer in the gym in preparation for the upcoming se
CITY HALL — Campaign season officially kicked off this week in Santa Monica as those interested in running for public office are now allowed to start asking registered voters for the 100 signatures needed to qualify for November’s ballot.
Santa Monica High School’s football team opens the 2010 season with three games on the road. The Vikings will face Leuzinger, Palisades and Villa Park all on their opponents’ turf.
By DANIEL ARCHULETA Managing Editor SAMOHI The Vikings’ dream softball season continues to bear fruit. Cal Hi Sports named Santa Monica High School’s Celisha Walker and Kaile Nakao to the All-California Medium School’s First Team this week.
LAKE ELSINORE — The legend of Cody Decker keeps growing. Since his days playing baseball for Santa Monica High School, Decker has been the inspiration behind a few local legends.
CITY HALL — The results are in! Judges with the Fifth Annual Santa Monica Teen Film Festival sifted through more than 180 submissions from across the country and Canada and screened 33 films over two days to award top honors to Harry Keenan and Max Groel of Pacific Palisades for their film.
CITYWIDE — The familiar “ping” sound of a ball springing off an aluminum bat has long been associated with high school baseball. In Santa Monica and the rest of California, that sound may soon be a thing of the past — at least if a bill proposed by Assemblyman Jared Huffman goes into effect.
SAMOHI — Nobody ever said that replacing the late Norm Lacy as Santa Monica High School’s athletic director was going to be easy. Yet, Daniel Escalera and his supporters think he has as good a shot as any.
SAMOHI — The hits just keep coming for the Vikings’ softball team. Santa Monica High School, coming off the first California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section softball title in school history, has placed a number of players on the All CIF-SS Division 4 team with senior pitcher Celisha Walk
SAMOHI — Already fielding a youth-laden roster, Santa Monica’s boys’ basketball team just got even younger. Jordan Mathews, a sophomore guard and son of new UCLA assistant men’s basketball coach Phil Mathews, has transferred to Samohi from Riverside North.
