Fifteen years ago, Peter McColl walked out of his north Berkeley home. He told his younger brother Joseph that he was taking the bus to visit Cody’s Books on Telegraph. No one in his family has seen him since. McColl, who was just days away from starting his junior year at Berkeley High, disappeared around [...]
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Biotech Academy students get hands-on education
The woman had been missing for six months, with no clue to her whereabouts. Now police had found her car, and it was covered with what looked like blood splatters, blood trails, and a bullet hole. William Clark and Evanney Salisi went to work analyzing the clues. They looked at the pattern of the blood [...]
Donors save BHS freshman, JV sports
The Berkeley High School Development Group announced today that it will provide $19,000 funding for freshman sports and assistant coaches in the coming academic year. BHSDG’s board met over the weekend to approve the grant. Because of the severely constrained school budget, there would have been no funding for freshman sports without the grant, according [...]
Berkeley High students at risk because of pot use
Students from Berkeley High are getting stoned in the park across the street from the school and in alleyways and other “out of the way” places in the downtown area, “morning, lunchtime, and mid-afternoon,” according to a new report which presents a plan to curb student drug and alcohol use. Drug and alcohol use among [...]
Scuderi named new BHS principal
Pasquale Scuderi, BUSD Director of Human Resources, has been named principal of Berkeley High School in a unanimous decision of the school board. Board president Karen Hemphill announced the appointment at tonight’s board meeting. Scuderi’s appointment comes after earlier stumbles when the initial search for a replacement for Jim Slemp failed to produce enough candidates [...]
A glimpse into the lives of Berkeley High seniors
More than 800 Berkeley High School seniors will walk across the stage of the Greek Theater this evening, shake hands with outgoing principal Jim Slemp, and pick up their diplomas. They will also be able to pick up the “Senior Issue” of the Jacket, the high school newspaper. It’s an issue that not only commemorates [...]
School’s out… for summer
Berkeley High School students leave the campus on the last day of school… and the first day of summer.
What happened to those parking spaces?
Berkeley High teachers who roll into the parking lot next to the football field today are in for a shock: all the parking spaces are gone. District officials set up a new chain link fence this week in the lot, eliminating dozens of spaces that teachers — and families viewing sports events — used. The [...]
District reopens search for high school principal
Berkeley school officials are reopening their hunt for a new high school principal after a two-month search failed to turn up a suitable candidate. More than 40 people sent in their resumes for the job, but only six were asked to interview, said Mark Coplan, the district spokesman. Of those, only three bothered to show [...]
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