Justis Mireles-Torres from Bonita High School is one of more than 1,000 high school cheerleaders from across the United States who will be performing in the world famous London New Year’s Day Parade. The All-American Cheer invitation adds to the sophomore’s growing list of recent accomplishments. She captained her freshman and now JV cheer squads, [...]

On Thursday night at the legendary Whisky a Go Go — where Led Zeppelin and Jim Morrison and The Doors once rocked the house – La Verne’s Janitors of Justice are ready to sweep the crowd off its feet at the celebrated and sometimes notorious Sunset Strip hangout. “I don’t think I’ll be nervous until they [...]

Leave it to a mechanical engineering student to figure out how to earn summer cash to help pay for his education at UC Santa Barbara and later this fall at prestigious Imperial College in London, England. Ian Sigsworth, a 2008 Bonita graduate, is working as an independent tutor, helping local students make sense of theorems, [...]

Look, dad!   For the 106th time, Bonita High School proudly celebrated the graduation of its senior class, a total of 426 students who had earned the distinct honor and privilege of switching the tassels on their mortarboards from the right to the left, symbolizing the ending of one chapter of their lives and the exciting beginning [...]

Class Valedictorians and Salutatorian       At Bonita High School Senior Awards night, school representatives, district office representatives and honorary guests handed out a cache of awards that made scores of parents and their graduating students extremely proud. There were Academic Hall of Fame and Bank of America and Athletic Award winners. For two hours, students were called up [...]

  Bonita rolled out the green carpet for its graduating seniors on June 1 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. by presenting them with their 2009-10 yearbooks along with a full spread of food, fun and games. Up in the farthest corners of the stands, under EZ-Up tents, sprawled out over the field, or simply seated on [...]

The Bonita Bearcats shut out Kaiser, 6-0, behind the dominant pitching of Chloe Wurst, who finished the game with an exclamation point by striking out the side. Carrying the No. 1 seed, Bonita was taking nothing for granted after being upset in last year’s first round. “This game was extremely important to us,” said Coach Ken Carlson, [...]

By Peter Bennett On a Friday night, I spent the night in a hospital contemplating suicide. I was watching the Bonita High School production of “The Girl in the Mirror” by Bruce Jacoby, a play whose setting is an intensive care unit where a teenage girl lies comatose after overdosing on sleeping pills. The subject of teen suicide [...]

Bonita High School Principal Mr. Robert Ketterling is pleased to announce that graduating Senior, Derrick McCanless, has been appointed to attend the United States Naval Academy.  Derrick is scheduled to report to Annapolis, Ma.,this summer to begin his four-ear training program at the Naval Academy.   Derrick will be graduating from Bonita High School ranked in the [...]