Browse past news stories for Deer Valley High School in Antioch, CA.

• New from Lamorinda -- Nov. 27 (Lamorinda Sun)
  posted on November 25, 2009 at 08:35:11 pm
  Residents looking to safety dispose unwanted or out of date prescription medications now have a place in Orinda to do so. Beginning Monday, residents can bring their medications to the lobby on the upper level of City Hall and dispose of them in the new pharmaceutical disposal collection box.
• Communications overload during school lockdowns (Tri-Valley Herald)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 05:12:02 pm
  The use of cell phones, text messaging and social-networking communication methods such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace is causing issues for students, parents, and officials during school lockdowns.
• Communications overload during school lockdowns (Berkeley Voice - Albany Journal)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 12:59:34 pm
  All it took was the pressing of a few buttons to send parents into a frenzy. Despite being told several times by police that no one was hurt, those who gathered near Newark's only high school continued to panic during a nearly four-hour-long lockdown on the last day of September.
• Antioch, school district settle racial discrimination lawsuit (Lamorinda Sun)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 05:05:24 pm
  Antioch and the city's school district have settled a lawsuit by the families of three teens involved in a March 2007 melee with police at a gas station near Deer Valley High School.
• Communications overload during school lockdowns (Oakland Tribune)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 01:29:35 pm
  The use of cell phones, text messaging and social-networking communication methods such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace is causing issues for students, parents, and officials during school lockdowns.
• Pittsburg, Antioch consider uniforms for high schools (Lamorinda Sun)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 01:34:40 pm
  For the past two years, parents at district committee meetings for English learners have raised concerns about attire at Pittsburg High School, including school safety and gang issues.
• Pittsburg, Antioch consider uniforms for high schools (Contra Costa Times)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 04:42:18 am
  Concerns about student conduct and gang issues prompt discussions.
• East County Community Digest (Oakley News)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 08:06:37 am
  Antiochtreelighting, vigil set for cemetery: Oak View Memorial Park will hold a tree-lighting ceremony and candlelight remembrance vigil at 6:30 p.m. today.
• Council urged to support Delta (ThePress.net)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 05:31:52 am
  Bill Worrell, an Antioch resident with the Sportsman Yacht Club, this week asked the City Council to attend a meeting Monday night in Brentwood concerning the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, which, he said, “will be our last chance to stop the Peripheral Canal.
• Wind Symphony to perform 'favorites' Sunday (Contra Costa Times)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 12:42:18 am
  The Contra Costa Wind Symphony will perform a concert Sunday night largely of their own making — a diverse array of selections they selected as among their favorites.
• Word of Mouth: Rocco's in Walnut Creek, 'Where the Wild Things Are,' fashionable water bottles (Inside Bay Area)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 08:14:17 am
  What LIP board members are talking about this week.AUTHENTIC ITALIAN: I savor the aroma of Italian spices and melting mozzarella cheese each time I walk into Rocco's Pizzeria in Walnut Creek.
• Lively Arts: How about a silly song or two? (Contra Costa Times)
  posted on October 23, 2009 at 07:13:01 am
  TWO-TIME GRAMMY award winner Bill Harley will bring his insightful, serious and silly songs and stories to the Amador Theater in Pleasanton on Saturday.
• Justices bring appeals court to Antioch (Contra Costa Times)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 09:27:18 pm
  Oral arguments in two actual cases are presented before an audience of Deer Valley High law students.
• East County vets to parade in Antioch (ThePress.net)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 06:31:59 pm
  For the most part, Veterans Day doesn’t feature the ceremonial pomp and circumstance of its more heralded brother, Memorial Day. There wasn’t a Veterans Day Parade in East County until last year when a patriotic group in Antioch, after spending five years raising funds for and building a war dog memorial near the Antioch Marina, was looking for a new project.
• Focused Wolverines set high standard (Lamorinda Sun)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 12:49:19 pm
  The direction is simple, clear and short. Very short. Shot-by-shot. Hole-by-hole. Chip-by-chip. The directives have come from local legendary coach and female sports pioneer Andria Edwards and the results have been enormous for Deer Valley High School's girls golf team.
• Focused Wolverines set high standard (Contra Costa Times)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 09:40:43 pm
  Deer Valley caps a third straight unbeaten BVAL season by dominating the league tournament
• Eagles running back thriving at new position (Montana Kaimin)
  posted on October 15, 2009 at 09:51:28 am
  This Saturday, Eastern Washington’s Taiwan Jones will make his second career appearance against Montana, where a year ago he posted double-digit tackles as a defensive back. But instead of making tackles against the men in maroon this time around, Jones hopes to be breaking them as Eastern’s most potent offensive weapon.
• STARS 2000 alumni make their marks (Contra Costa Times)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 05:42:46 pm
  Central County teen performers go to Broadway and beyond
• STARS 2000 alumni make their marks (Lamorinda Sun)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 05:33:24 pm
  As a child, Justin Scott Brown knew exactly what he wanted to do when he grew up. He set his heart on the stage and kept right on going. "I started theater very young through my older sister's influence and I stuck with it," said Brown, now 23. "It became my passion."
• Antioch appoints new schools chief (Lamorinda Sun)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 04:17:42 am
  Interim Superintendent Donald Gill accepted the district board of trustees' offer Tuesday afternoon to become the permanent chief. "I see it as a district that has tremendous promise, and I'm willing to continue the work I've been involved with for the past several months," Gill said.
• Antioch native is anonymous face in steroid debate (San Francisco Chronicle)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 02:35:01 pm
  The Senate will hold a hearing on steroids today. Mark McGwire won't be there, refusing to talk about the past. Roger Clemens won't be there, talking about his wife receiving growth-hormone injections to look better in a bikini. The best ballplayer in the...
• Barbara Herendeen: Antioch Schools Education Foundation dinner was inspiring (Oakley News)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 09:37:50 pm
  SEPTEMBER 17 WAS memorable for many living in Antioch. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was in town that night, and many flocked to hear him speak.
• Trine Gallegos: Antioch Schools Foundation honors top school employees (Brentwood News)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 09:27:26 pm
  THE ANTIOCH Schools Education Foundation recently honored top AUSD staff with a dinner, awards and interim superintendent Don Gill as master of ceremonies.
• Suspect charged with attempted murder in connection with shooting near Antioch school (Concord Transcript)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 10:36:00 am
  ANTIOCH — A 19-year-old man was charged Monday in the gang-related shooting of a 16-year-old student last week near Deer Valley High School, police said.
• Antioch Man Confessed To Shooting Near School (FOX 11 Reno)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 10:55:39 pm
  An Antioch man arrested in connection with the shooting of a 16-year-old student near Deer Valley High School in Antioch on Wednesday has confessed to the shooting, police said Monday.
• Man confesses to shooting at Deer Valley (KGO-TV Bay Area)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 08:31:51 pm
  An Antioch man has confessed to the shooting of a student at Deer Valley High.
• Antioch school officials stand by emergency protocol (El Paso Times)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 08:08:04 pm
  In wake of a drive-by shooting near Deer Valley High, campus leaders say effective measures were taken and they will work in future.
• Man in custody identified by police as Antioch school shooter (Lamorinda Sun)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 05:33:09 pm
  ANTIOCH — A 19-year-old man already in custody in connection with a shooting outside Deer Valley High School last week has admitted to firing the shots that injured a 16-year-old student, police said this morning.
• Suspect charged with attempted murder in connection with shooting near Antioch school (Contra Costa Times)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 03:57:30 pm
  n 19-year-old accused of injuring teen near Antioch high school
• Antioch police say they have gang gunman (San Francisco Chronicle)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 03:46:37 pm
  An alleged gang member arrested in connection with a shooting near Deer Valley High School in Antioch has been identified as the gunman in the case, police said Monday. Yousuf Mohammad Aziz, 19, of Antioch was initially believed to be the driver of the...