Members of the state Board of Psychology have elected Nicole J. Jones to serve as vice president. Prior to her new role, Jones was a public member of the board, which is part of the state Department of Consumer Affairs. Gov. Jerry Brown re-appointed her to a four-year term on the board last June. She Read More…
Centennial High School senior Channel Patton is president of the associated student body, is on the dance team and a troop member of the Girl Scouts. She is also the founder and president of the school’s first-ever Korean Language Club. The Compton student became interested in Asian languages by reading anime — Japanese comics and Read More…
Bernisha Williams, an eighth grade student from Willowbrook Middle School won third place in the 2015 Secondary Spelling Bee contest hosted by the Compton Unified School District. Williams competed in more than 40 rounds to spell college-level words such as “apocryphal” and “synecdoche” during the Jan. 15 event. For preparation, she said she spent three Read More…
