Finances at fore in final 2012 meeting By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor The Benicia Unified School District Board of Trustees is meeting a week early, and for the last time this year. The board’s annual organizational meeting, at which it elects a new president and clerk, will take place Thursday night, and the panel won’t […]
Tourism panel to discuss visitor booklet
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor The Tourism Committee of the Economic Development Board will meet for the final time of 2012 on Thursday. One of the updates they will hear is about the preparation of a Benicia booklet for visitors to the city.
Board OKs achievement plan for 3 of its schools
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor The Benicia Unified School District Board of Trustees last week approved a student achievement plan for Matthew Turner and Joe Henderson elementary schools and Liberty High School, and also heard a report on the proposed new districtwide financial and human resources software system. The Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) […]
Board bolsters field trip security
Fingerprinting for drivers approved By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Benicia school trustees on Thursday approved requiring fingerprinting of parents who volunteer to drive students to different off-campus school functions. “The board requested that staff add a line to the board policy that required that all drivers on field trips be fingerprinted. That has been added […]
Artists enjoy exercises in ‘Rhetoric’
■ Pair combine creative forces for new show By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor The pieces range from six small “surfboards,” each 8 inches tall by 3 inches wide, to a large, loose canvas draped on the wall, bearing the repeated, sometimes overlapping image of a silhouetted seabird. The new art exhibit at Jordan Real Estate […]
Joint panel told of BHS drug suspension program
■ Presentation made on closing high school campus By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Benicia City Council/School Board Liaison Committee met Thursday for the first time since September and heard a presentation on a program to overhaul how students guilty of drug offenses serve their suspensions. The panel also saw a presentation on the ongoing study into […]
Holiday art explosion on First Street
Plein Air, Gallery 621 open new exhibits By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Two First Street galleries will feature group shows by their members this week: Benicia Plein Air Gallery opens “Historic Benicia,” and Gallery 621 debuts “small Works of Art.” Itself rapidly becoming a city fixture, Benicia Plein Air centered its show around the classic […]
Liaison panel to convene, hear closed campus, drug ‘diversion’ presentations
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Benicia City Council-School Board Liaison Committee will convene Thursday for the first time since September, hearing and discussing reports on a variety of topics including the possibility of closing Benicia High School’s campus. That’s not a new issue, having been raised most recently in an October presentation before the Benicia […]
BUSD mulls upgrade of financial, human resources software
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor The Benicia Unified School District is considering a software system overhaul, and the Board of Trustees will hear a report on a proposed new system Thursday. “Due to rising costs and continued lack of system support and development, the school districts and the county office of education in Solano County […]
Symphony, choral to bring ‘St. Nick Cantata’ to life
Guest conductor, tenor lead group holiday show By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Steven Ziegler looks nothing like Santa Claus. But that won’t have any bearing on Ziegler’s performance Sunday, when the Richmond resident sings the St. Nicholas parts in Benjamin Britten’s “St. Nicholas Cantata.” Grammy award-winner Andrew Brown will conduct the special holiday show in […]