All four schools within the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District are holding graduations ceremonies this week, including two on Thursday and two more today.
Santa Maria area seniors ready to graduate after overcoming many challenges during pandemic
Righetti High School student Audrey Herrera is one of hundreds of Santa Maria area seniors preparing to graduate this week. (Dave Alley/KEYT)
SANTA MARIA, Calif. Santa Maria Valley seniors are preparing to graduate this week after facing and overcoming many challenges over the past 15 months during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been a little difficult, said Righetti High School senior Audrey Herrera. Seniors have lost out on a lot of opportunities, and fun memories that we have been looking forward to senior year and stuff, and so that has been very difficult.
Santa Maria ag teacher awarded for being outstanding educator
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and last updated 2021-05-18 16:17:51-04
A Santa Maria teacher is being recognized.
The Santa Maria Joint Union High School District says Miguel Guerra, an ag teacher at Righetti High, was one of two educators in Santa Barbara County chosen to receive the 2021 Marvin Melvin Career Technical Educator Award.
The awards recognize outstanding career-technical educators in the county and are in memory of Marvin Melvin, a longtime Santa Barbara High School Industrial Arts teacher âknown for his quick wit and bow tie, taught machine shop, metal and drafting classes.â
âWow, big surprise and honor to be selected among all my CTE friends, Guerra said in a press release. âI truly enjoy working with so many young people, teaching them real-life skills that they will have the rest of their lives. Over the many years, I especially enjoy hearing students say that they stayed in school because of the Agr