Launched in January, it’s a partnership between the city and the school division and is free to each of the more than 1,300 public-school second graders. “To watch the kids progress from the first lesson to the fifth lesson, it’s remarkable.”
The longtime coach and leader of the Coast Guard Blue Dolphins (CGBD), a year-round swim team on the Peninsula with more than 400 members, will retire from the profession he has loved since his first coaching jobs in the 1970s.