Browse past news stories for Oak Grove High School in San Jose, CA.

• Menlo, SHP meet to decide CCS football finalist (Palo Alto Weekly)
  posted on November 26, 2009 at 07:04:11 pm
  Less than a week ago, Menlo School was looking for its first-ever Central Coast Section football victory. On Saturday, it will be playing Sacred Heart Prep for a berth in the championship game. by PaloAltoOnline.com
• Fourth quarter wakeup call advances Tigers (Pacifica Tribune)
  posted on November 26, 2009 at 06:41:23 pm
  For three and a half quarters it looked like the season was over for the Terra Nova varsity football team as it trailed Live Oak of Morgan Hill 24-7 late in the third quarter. This resilient group decided that they did not want to stop playing games quite yet and they staged an incredible rally
• Suicide survivors gather to console each other in Palo Alto (San Jose Mercury News)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 03:13:37 am
  Palo Alto was chosen by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for one of its survivor gatherings because of a cluster of deaths that have occurred along the Caltrain tracks there over the past seven months, a so-called 'hot spot' where four Gunn High School students took their own lives.
• PA Knights all set for round 2 of AYF playoffs (Palo Alto Weekly)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 05:45:06 pm
  The American Youth Football playoffs move into the second round this weekend with the Palo Alto Knights's Jr. Pee Wee team opening play against Oak Grove South at Palo Alto High on Sunday at 11 a.m., after having a first-round bye. The Knights earned a week off after finishing 7-1 in the regular season. by PaloAltoOnline.com
• Homecoming: Dances, skits, contests and, oh yes, a football game (San Jose Mercury News)
  posted on October 18, 2009 at 11:22:11 pm
  Homecoming 2009 is a weeklong carnival of dress-up, crazy contests and precision performances '” preceded by months of frenzied rehearsals. It still ends with a game and dance, but the festivities have only a faint link with football.    More education news, school information
• Pate completes basic training (Fernley Leader)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 05:24:23 pm
  FERNLEY--U.S. Navy Seaman Recruit Tyson J. Pate, son of Shannon M. Oliver of Fernley and Steven Q. Pate of Dickinson, Texas, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.
• Dig in to culinary delight, more of Healdsburg (Inside Bay Area)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 09:22:57 pm
  In Healdsburg, food has become an experience. On Saturdays, the small town features the Healdsburg Farmer's Market, where cooking demonstrations highlight seasonal ingredients.
• Sinnott students earn medals at Hershey track meets (The Milpitas Post)
  posted on September 19, 2009 at 02:03:08 am
  As a result of the San Jose track meet they competed in during the month of May, six Sinnott elementary students had the chance to participate in a number of athletic events while they were out of school this summer.
• Milpitas girl medals in Pennsylvania (The Milpitas Post)
  posted on September 6, 2009 at 06:47:50 pm
  Milpitas resident Megan F. Tan, 10, walked away with many titles in the 9- and 10-year-old girls' division during the Hershey's Northern California State Track Meet at Oak Grove High School in San Jose on June 20.
• Players' union lobbies for benefits (Honolulu Advertiser)
  posted on July 16, 2009 at 12:15:42 pm
  Pro football players swept across Capitol Hill yesterday and asked lawmakers to take a tough look at owners' profits as the two sides prepare to decide how to divide their big pot of TV money and other revenues.
• Pipe band performs for first time at Fourth parade (Morgan Hill Times)
  posted on July 7, 2009 at 02:28:10 am
  Turlock Police and Fire Pipe Band leader Tom Robinson advises his group of bagpipers and drummers before they march in Saturday's Independence Day Parade. Photo by: Special to The Times Tom Robinson has a dream: to build the Turlock Police and Fire Pipe Band into one of the largest in Northern California. A ragtag band of bagpipers and drummers, the new group savored the chance to play together ...
• Winners for life: Students' stories show the value of high school sports (San Jose Mercury News)
  posted on June 21, 2009 at 01:30:04 am
  As this graduation season winds down, at a time when the terrible economy is forcing money-strapped districts to contemplate actions like increasing classroom sizes, here's something to consider: Sports do matter. And not just because of numbers posted on a scoreboard.    Profiles of kids changed by sports
• Benefit rap concert in San Jose canceled (San Jose Mercury News)
  posted on June 20, 2009 at 04:39:59 am
  A Saturday rap concert designed to raise money for sports programs in the East Side Union High School District has apparently been canceled.
• Gov. Schwarzenegger wants California's schools to adopt digital textbooks (San Jose Mercury News)
  posted on June 17, 2009 at 02:13:17 am
  Educators are intrigued by the idea, but questions remain about the true cost of going digital as well as bridging the digital divide.
• San Jose teen battling cancer graduates from Davis Intermediate School (San Jose Mercury News)
  posted on June 17, 2009 at 01:22:48 am
  From her wheelchair backstage Tuesday, Leanna Tran looked over a ceremony that just three months ago she doubted she would be able to attend.    Photos: Slide show of Leanna's graduation      Video: Kids participate in "shave or dye"
• Eaglebots hope to make botball competition (KGO-TV Bay Area)
  posted on May 29, 2009 at 07:13:26 am
  Oak Grove High's Eaglebots hope to make the international botball robot competition.
• Updated: Mushroom Mardi Gras attendance could top 60,000 (Morgan Hill Times)
  posted on May 25, 2009 at 12:33:27 am
  Alicia Jacinto, from San Jose, waves to friends as she wears her hat and beads she got in New Orleans, at the Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras Saturday. Photo by: Lora Schraft Morgan Hill Sunshine and warm air cleared the way for a stream of festivalgoers during the Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras this weekend. And with the help of food vendors, this could have been the most mushroomy in recent ...
• San Jose's Oak Grove students headed to robotics competition (San Jose Mercury News)
  posted on May 24, 2009 at 10:52:28 pm
  Many of the Eaglebots recently emigrated to the United States and often juggle school work and part-time jobs. Now they are raising funds to pay for a trip to the international Botball competition in Washington, D.C.
• San Jose high school team wins with robots (San Francisco Chronicle)
  posted on May 22, 2009 at 07:23:49 am
  In a windowless classroom at Oak Grove High School in San Jose, proud students showed how they designed the table-top robots that recently won the Northern California Botball Championship. "You have to use your brain to build something like this," said junior... Related: San Jose California - Oak Grove High School - Northern California - San Jose - California
• Life in a year, Part 4: San Jose high school students ponder hard choices (Pioneer Press)
  posted on May 9, 2009 at 06:36:13 pm
  For the multitudes caught in that fulcrum of late adolescence, being a teenager is serious business — sometimes deadly serious. Who but a teenager will experience high school proms and roadside bombs in a single surreal year?
• DA defends former teacher's sex-crime sentence (Hollister Free Lance)
  posted on May 7, 2009 at 09:50:03 pm
  Alberto Gomez Vicuna Jr., 33 The former Gilroy High School math teacher who pleaded no contest to four counts of sex crimes with a girl half his age will serve one year in county jail. Police were disappointed with the short sentence, but the district attorney defended it because it avoided costly and emotionally taxing court proceedings. In return for his plea, Alberto Gomez Vicuna Jr., 33, ...
• Former teacher will serve one year for sex crimes (The Gilroy Dispatch)
  posted on May 6, 2009 at 12:30:00 am
  Alberto Gomez Vicuna Jr., 32, a former Gilroy High School math teacher who will serve one year in jail for various sex crimes stemming from an encounter he had with a 14-year-old San Jose girl. Photo by: Dispatch file photo The former Gilroy High School math teacher who pleaded no contest to four counts of sex crimes with a girl half his age will serve one year in county jail. In return for his ...
• Former teacher will serve one year for sex crimes (Morgan Hill Times)
  posted on May 6, 2009 at 12:29:50 am
  Alberto Gomez Vicuna Jr., 32, a former Gilroy High School math teacher who will serve one year in jail for various sex crimes stemming from an encounter he had with a 14-year-old San Jose girl. Photo by: File Photo The former Gilroy High School math teacher who pleaded no contest to four counts of sex crimes with a girl half his age will serve one year in county jail. In return for his plea, ...
• Former GHS teacher pleads no contest to sex charges (Hollister Free Lance)
  posted on May 5, 2009 at 09:20:39 pm
  Alberto Gomez Vicuna Jr., 32 The Gilroy High School math teacher charged with nine counts of sex crimes with a girl half his age pleaded no contest and faces up to 10 years in prison. The charges against Morgan Hill resident Alberto Gomez Vicuna Jr., 32, stem from an alleged sexual encounter with a 14-year-old San Jose girl during the early morning hours of Feb. 19. The victim, who is not a ...
• Teen Girl Gets 18 Years For SJ High School Stabbing (FOX 11 Reno)
  posted on May 2, 2009 at 06:20:49 am
  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A 17-year-old girl has been sentenced in Santa Clara County Superior Court to 18 years in state prison for the May 2008 stabbing of another student at Oak Grove High School, the district attorney's office announced Friday.
• Girl sentenced in San Jose high school stabbing (CBS 47 Fresno)
  posted on May 1, 2009 at 11:43:30 pm
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A 17-year-old girl has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for stabbing a classmate at a San Jose high school last year. Claudia Montalbo, who was 16 at the time, pleaded guilty to the attack at Oak Grove High School as part of a deal with prosecutors. Under terms of the agreement, she must serve at least 85 percent of her 18-year sentence and pay more than $47,000 in ...
• San Jose teen sentenced in stabbing incident (KLIV 1590 Silicon Valley News)
  posted on May 1, 2009 at 10:42:13 pm
  SAN JOSE - A San Jose teenager has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to a gang-related attack at Oak Grove High School last year.
• Girl sentenced in San Jose high school stabbing (San Francisco Chronicle)
  posted on May 1, 2009 at 10:27:14 pm
  A 17-year-old girl has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for stabbing a classmate at a San Jose high school last year. Claudia Montalbo, who was 16 at the time, pleaded guilty to the attack at Oak Grove High School as part of a deal with prosecutors. Under...
• Teen Sentenced in San Jose High School Stabbing (KRON 4 Bay Area)
  posted on May 1, 2009 at 09:55:27 pm
  A 17-year-old girl has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for stabbing a classmate at a San Jose high school last year. Claudia Montalbo, who was 16 at the time, pleaded guilty to the attack at Oak Grove High School as part of a deal with prosecutors. Under terms of the agreement, she must serve at least 85 percent of her 18-year sentence and pay more than $47,000 in restitution to the victim ...
• South Bay Residents Unite For 'Litter Pickup Day' (CBS 5 Bay Area)
  posted on April 25, 2009 at 06:18:01 pm
  Residents across the South Bay were up bright and early Saturday morning to pick up litter in their communities as part of the nationwide Ninth Annual Great American Litter Pick Up.