The Santa Maria-Bonita School District thanks the businesses, local organizations and people throughout the community that support students and schools in many ways during the year.
Adam School would like to thank Olive Garden in Santa Maria and Leonard Rodriguez, the restaurant’s general manager. Olive Garden hosted a 5th grade field trip with a behind-the-scenes look …

Recent data from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, reports that for the twelfth year in a row, transfer students from Allan Hancock College enjoyed the highest transfer acceptance rate in the state among all community colleges that transfer a significant number of students to the respected university.
Cal Poly’s Region 6 Spring Community College Update shows …

Now that members of the high school Class of 2013 have graduated, hundreds of thousands of them are also preparing to enroll in one of the state’s 112 community colleges.
Local students don’t have to look far to find two great choices — Santa Barbara City College and Allan Hancock College. Both have long been jewels …

The Allan Hancock College Board of Trustees last evening named a college president from Northern California as the college’s new superintendent/president.
Kevin G. Walthers, Ph.D., is the current president of Las Positas College in Livermore, California.  The college is one of two in the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District and one of the 112 community colleges …

Mary Girty credits her years working in administrative services for the public safety programs at Allan Hancock College with influencing several key events in her life.  It was there that she met her husband and where her son and son-in-law were inspired to become firefighters.
“I’m thankful for the years I spent on the South Campus,” …