After six months of conducting research and gathering community input, Benicia High School’s Schedule Advisory Committee is ready to make a recommendation for a new bell schedule at Thursday’s school board meeting. The schedule would go into effect at the start of the 2017-18 school year. The committee was formed in November and is […]
Parents, students feel impact of ‘15 Minutes’
❒ Two-day program gets graphic, emotional in effort to keep students from drunken driving Elaine DiStephano summed up the emotions she and others felt over their two days’ participation in “Every 15 Minutes,” a program designed to urge Benicia and Liberty high school students to avoid drinking or using drugs and driving. “You think you […]
Police, other agencies join fight against teen drunken driving
‘Every 15 Minutes’ event to be held at BHS next week Every 15 minutes, someone in the United States is killed in an alcohol-related traffic accident. While that’s a dire statistic, it’s just numbers and words to many people, especially young drivers — until the victim is a friend or family member. Then it’s a […]
Benicia High School students go underwater with Cal Maritime
Thanks to a partnership with California Maritime Academy, students in Andrea Jenest’s oceanography class at Benicia High School not only have built underwater, remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs. The students also got to see how well their watercraft performed in challenging assignments. The collaboration between the Vallejo- based maritime academy and the high school is […]
Bang on the drums all day
THE 11TH BENICIA BAY WINTER REVIEW is Saturday at the Benicia High School gym, 1100 Military West. The drum line and color guard competition for high school and middle school students runs from 3:30-10 p.m. and features more than 30 groups from Northern California. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and $5 for […]