by The Editors on March 10, 2009
Yesterday, March 9, 2009, Carlsbad Unified School District officials joined together with McCarthy Building Companies to official celebrate the beginning of Carlsbad High School’s $86 million renovation, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The project, funded by Proposition P, a $198 million bond measure that district voters approved in 2006, will feature a new 3,900-seat stadium and 11 new buildings – including space for the performing arts, vocational education and a new food service facility. . . The $13.6 million stadium is scheduled to be completed in spring 2010, and the rest of the work should be completed by fall 2011.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on February 16, 2009
This Thursday, February 19, 2009 the Carlsbad Education Foundation is holding a special Carlsbadistan “red carpet premiere” of the Carlsbad High School student produced Holocaust documentary We Must Remember: This film chronicles the experience of 16 Carlsbad High School students as they research, conduct interviews, and learn about the Holocaust. The premiere will take place at the MovieMax Theater (we call it the Plaza Camino Real 4) located at 2385 Marron Road, Carlsbad. Tickets are $9.50 each.
[Link: Carlsbad Education Foundation]
by The Editors on January 4, 2009
Carlsbadistan’s 99-year-old Army and Navy Academy is hoping to make some major renovations if they can get their plans approved by the city of Carlsbad, according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
Officials with the private military high school want to tear down a number of aging buildings, give some other structures a face lift and add new dormitories, classrooms and sports facilities. Also planned is a pedestrian bridge across Carlsbad Boulevard, linking the main campus buildings with the sports fields.
Hurry up and get this approved. We’re tired of nearly getting hit every time we try to cross Coast Highway in front of the ANA campus.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on November 10, 2008
The City of Carlsbad is expected to approve a $718,169 bid by McCarthy Building Companies Wednesday night to move the arsenic-laced dirt from the Carlsbad High School football field, according to a story in the North County Times.
Clean-up work is expected to start Nov. 24 and take less than a week. Once the soil is removed, work is expected to start on a new stadium on the campus. . . . District officials expect to be done with the renovation work in 2011.
And to think: our parents always said there were better things to do than spend our days digging in the dirt. If we’d known we could make three quarters of a million dollars a week hauling dirt we never would have wasted time learning to type.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on October 10, 2008
The Lancer Homecoming King and Queen of 2008 Ashston Barbour and Amber Singh were the closers on this year’s parade through the streets of Carlsbadistan.
For all the photos of today’s Lancer Day Parade “continue reading” link.
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by The Editors on September 12, 2008
It’s not often that you get to party at the Post Office, but on today September 20, 2008 at 9 AM the Carlsbadistan Post Office will celebrate Date Meets Zip Day. The way it works is that today is 9-20-08 the same as the local Zip Code. Get it?
Join the Mayor, Carlsbad High School’s Cheerleaders, Miss Carlsbad, The Army and Navy Academy Atkinson Warrior Marching Band, Carlsbad Post Office Employees and others in celebration this once-in-a-century event with specially designed postcards and cancellation, balloons, cake and other silly stuff.
The Party runs for 20 minutes 8 seconds from 9:00 AM until 9:20:08 AM.
by The Editors on July 8, 2008
Bijan Plikat and Marianna Silva keeping it slow.
While most high school students are spending the summer speeding around in cars from one event to another, a group of Carlsbad High Schools students have decided to drive 55 in the right hand land and then to wave their hands out the window to encourage other drivers to slow down as well, according to a story in Today’s Local News.
After learning about how their counterparts in Europe deal with high fuel costs, many of the roughly 150 juniors and seniors in the foreign language classes have started a campaign to “slow down and save gas. . . “It’s taking responsibility for my own actions,” said Naomi Tirronen, who graduated last month. “I do need to save gas and money. If everyone didn’t buy gas as often, maybe demand would be lower and prices wouldn’t go up so high.”
Good luck, kids. Driving 55 mph on SoCal freeways probably makes you more of a hazard, especially if you’re distracting people with all that hand waving. But it’s a nice thought.
[Link: Today’s Local News]
by The Editors on July 4, 2008
The football field at Carlsbad High School was condemned yesterday after soil tests showed elevated levels of arsenic six inches below the field, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The routine testing was part of the school’s planned expansion, which was to include the demolition of the football field and track at the end of this year’s football season. With the results of last week’s tests, however, orange fencing has been assembled around the field and the Lancers will be playing on a new surface earlier than they imagined.
Maybe that’s why other teams have such a hard time winning at Swede Krcmar Field.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on June 28, 2008
Leave it to a crew of “home-school” Hawai’ian kids from Elite Element to squeak by Carlsbad High School Surf Team in the finals of the NSSA National High School Surf Championships.
Elite Element — which is a home-school program — defeated Carlsbad (Calif.) High in the final. The finals were run in 3- to 4-foot waves at Lower Trestles.
Congrats, CHS. It’s a shame we can’t all live in Hawaii and go to school only when we don’t feel like surfing.
[Link: Honolulu Advertiser]
by The Editors on June 27, 2008
One month ago administrators of the Carlsbad Unified School District thought they would have to trim $5.6 million from the 2008-2009 budget, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Now, thanks to being reclassified as a “basic aid” school district (because of high local property values) the district adopted a $96.6 million budget with only $2 million in cuts.
Carlsbad joins several other coastal North County districts – Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas – that are designated as basic aid because property values are so high there. Only about 80 of California’s more than 1,000 public school districts are basic aid districts. . . . That means that over the next fiscal year, Carlsbad Unified is expected to have $3.1 million more to spend than it otherwise would have had as a revenue limit school district.
We don’t exactly understand all the technical details, but smaller-than-expected budget cuts on education are always a great thing.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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