Students from last year’s trip go eeling. A week on Catalina Island studying marine biology begins May 12 for 13 graduating eighth graders from Elgin School in Sonoita. After several years of preparation, studying, and fundraising, the students are reaping the rewards of their efforts. They have had to maintain excellent grade point averages and […]
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First Graders Contribute to Global Peace Project
Kate Musick’s first grade class poses with their Global Art Peace Project. Patagonia Elementary’s first grade class proudly participated in this year’s Global Peace Project with the Patagonia Creative Arts Association. Kate Musick, the first grade teacher, said this project was perfect for her class since they are always working toward peace in the classroom. […]
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Four Patagonia School Staff Start New Ventures
Kate Musick with her first grade class. As the school year winds down, three Patagonia staff members are retiring, and one is moving to another continent. Kate Musick has spent 41 years teaching Patagonia students, most of that time in elementary classrooms at the hill campus. A gardener, a seamstress, and a woman with “family […]
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PUHS Tennis Season Ends on a High Note
Danny Schrimpf Both the boys and the girls’ teams finished this season with wins in their final matches at Valley Union High School in Elfrida on April 22. The girls totaled four wins and nine losses. And the boys had seven wins and six losses. Felix Wharton Senior Felix Wharton participated in the 1A School […]
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Montessori Students Walk the Line
The Montessori School has been doing Acro-yoga and slacklining with Chip and Laura Fieberg, who have been doing these activities for about five years. The Fiebergs learned about Acro-yoga at a festival in 2008, and soon after discovered slacklining from their Acro-yoga teachers. Acro-yoga is a combination of yoga and partner acrobatics. slacklining is similar […]
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Meet the New Teachers: Journee Hayes
The Patagonia Union High School is thankful to have received such a wonderful teacher this school year, Journee Hayes. She is more than qualified for the job with with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism at NAU, and a teaching degree at Ottawa University in Phoenix, Arizona. She is currently finishing her master’s degree in English […]
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Jac Heiss and the Joint Technical Education Project
Patagonian Jac Heiss Long-term residents of Patagonia probably will remember Jac Heiss, who began teaching fifth grade here in 1974. In 1982 he became principal, a post he held until 1995, making his total commitment to education in Patagonia just over 20 years. He then spent two years as a middle school administrator in Nogales, […]
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Two Productions by PUHS Drama Club
PUHS cast members, from top left: Andrew Goodnough, Michael Ramirez, Cosette Whitcoe; middle row: Sarita Crockett, Florence DeLara, Savannah Foster, Faith Hendricks, Duke Norton, Lisa Lopez, Haley Hill; front row: Stasi Lucero, Cokelly Herrera, Alyssa Graham, Calvin Whitcoe. On November 15 and 16, Patagonia High School Drama Club put on two productions directed by Ms. […]
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Meet Our New Teachers: Augusta Lucas
The new seventh through ninth grade PUHS English teacher, Ms. Augusta Lucus, first attended a small junior college in Arkansas. She then attended the University of Tulsa, later transferring to a university in Oklahoma. After college she joined the Army National Guard. Although she began college as a math and science major, she switched to […]