... team there helped,” principal Nikki Dennis said of the Vigil death. “The kids were upset. Parents were upset.”        This year, a Manzano High student died “car surfing,” days after a longtime teacher had died of cancer.        Enter the crisis team.        “Often ...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009 Teen awarded art scholarship Journal Staff Report           Justin Jew, a 16-year-old sophomore at Manzano High School, is the recent recipient of a $2,000 art scholarship by the Northern New Mexico Art Catalogue & Gallery in Santa Fe.         It is one of 10 art scholarships ...
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... 't think they'd ever go to college," she said, adding that many have parents who didn't finish high school or even middle school.     Highland and Manzano high schools have adopted the program, along with Hayes, Van Buren and Wilson middle schools. Brooks said if it's successful, he hopes to expand it ...
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... .         After that? "I've got a full array of options," Chávez says.         Chávez, a politician since his teenage days as an organizer at Manzano High School, has always said there are three public offices he would like to hold: Albuquerque mayor, New Mexico governor and United States senator ...
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... mother says. "Just being together, they get themselves into a whirlwind of illogical thinking."     Her daughter and Erin were both sophomores at Manzano High School. They had both completed their drivers' education in the summer and were in the permit stage, when driving is allowed only with an adult ...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Adaptive PE provides outlet By Andrea Schoellkopf Journal Staff Writer       Manzano High senior Valentina Garcia is in her fourth year of PE.        What is traditionally a freshman class has become an elective many Manzano students are taking so they can be part of the adaptive ...
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... the CD and in the concert are bassist Milo Jaramillo and drummer Andy Poling.         "I first met Milo in the late '80s when he was a senior at Manzano High School and he started playing gigs with various people," Anthony said. "Milo replaced David Parlato in the trio after David stopped performing ...
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... the Pomona Marching Band Festival in Arvada, Colo., in September, the RRHS marching band competed in the N.M. Pageant of the Bands last weekend at Manzano High School in Albuquerque. Twenty-four marching bands from around the state strutted their stuff and flashed the brass, including newly formed CHS ...
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Friday, October 16, 2009 Teacher Loved History By Lloyd Jojola Journal Staff Writer        More than 1,000 people filled the Manzano High School gymnasium Wednesday evening to remember Gracie Sellers, who taught at the Albuquerque school for 32 years.     Her time at Manzano was part of an overall ...
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... about 1:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of Sierra Larga Drive NE, near Lomas and Tramway, police said.     It was not immediately known whether the Manzano High School sophomore had been sitting or standing on the car's roof or hood.     The car was driven by another 14- or 15-year-old girl who attends Manzano ...
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