By Aisha Sander Aug 7, 2020 The three benchmarks the schools are recommended to meet before resuming in-person instruction are “a decline in weekly average cases for two consecutive weeks (not including the current week); two weeks with percent positivity below 7% (not including the current week); and two weeks with hospital visits due to […]
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No Final Answers as Schools Set to Reopen
Elgin 4th grade teacher Angela Brown prepares her classroom for the beginning of the school year. “We’re ready,” she said. “We’re a big family. We all miss each other.” Photo by Marion Vendituoli As of July 29, Patagonia Schools will begin school online on August 17, with distance learning for at least the first month. […]
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Parades, Ceremonies Celebrate 2020 Grads
Arriana and Reyna Ochoa-Tovar share a smile as they parade through Patagonia with their classmates on May 22 before receiving their diplomas at an outdoor ceremony at Patagonia Union High School. Photo by Robert Gay Tyre Nevins rides in the back of a ranch truck, complete with congratulatory messages written in the coating of red dirt familiar […]
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SCC Cowbelles Award Scholarships
The Santa Cruz County Cowbelles have awarded $1,000 scholarships to two local graduating high school seniors. Both Lauren Fletcher, a graduate of Patagonia Union High School, and Alexandra Pallanes, a graduate of Andrada Polytechnic, will be attending the University of Arizona to study animal science/veterinary medicine.
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Stradling Foundation Awards $12,000 in Scholarships
The Anne Straddling Foundation has awarded three scholarships worth a total of $12,000 to graduating high school seniors from Santa Cruz County. The funds will be applied to their tuition at the college of their choice in increments of $1,000 per semester for four semesters beginning in the fall of 2020. “These students epitomize the […]
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Eight Graders 2020
THe PRT with help from Nancy McCoy, President of the Patagonia Elementary School Board & Annette Koweek Elgin Middle School Teacher learned more about the 8th grade graduates of 2020 Elgin 8th Graders Responses: Name3 Adjectives to describe yourselfFavorite TeacherFavorite Memories from Middle SchoolWhat are. you looking forward to High School? McKenzie BeyerActive, Fun, tomboy-likeMr.Peterson; […]
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A Historic Year for PUHS Boys’ Basketball
The Patagonia Union High School basketball team at the 1A Conference playoffs. The ball was in the air when the final buzzer rang. Fans in The Gregory School’s gym in Tucson watched with hope or dread, as the basketball hit the backboard. One player from the home team collapsed onto the court in defeat, as […]
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Class of 2020 Honored on the Streets of Patagonia
The Class of 2020 has their pictures on banners around the town of Patagonia. A surprise gift from the teachers and parents in the community. Photo credit: Robert Gay A few weeks ago like many other teachers around the country, Anna Coleman, teacher and the director of Patagonia Youth Enrichment Center (PYEC), was thinking how […]
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Schools Rising to the Challenge Of Distance Learning
Schools in Arizona closed on March 23 and will remain closed for this school year, but the academic year goes on. It is uncharted territory for the students, parents and teachers at a time when parents may be trying to work from home or are out of work and wondering when they’ll work again. To […]
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Patagonia Union High School Senior Spotlights
This month the PRT begins a series of profiles of the PUHS senior class of 2020. Johnny Quiroga by Nicholas Dekhytar PUHS senior John “Johnny” Quiroga is a current senior at Patagonia High School. Johnny, known by his friends to be a joyful, funny, intelligent, kind, and loyal friend, is also the captain of the […]