Students from Lodi High School participated in the 46th annual California State SkillsUSA Championships held in San Diego on April 4 through 7, and took medals in a number of categories.

San Joaquin Delta College hosted the SkillsUSA Region 5 Competition on Feb. 2. Eight Delta students received gold medals for their trade and technical skill proficiency.

San Joaquin Delta College is looking for volunteers to judge the host the SkillsUSA Region 5 Competition on Feb 2.

Joshua Patterson, 18, still gets nervous, even after two years of drafting competitions. The feeling kicked in a few days before the event and built up through the trip to San Diego, where six Lodi High School students were competing in the California State SkillsUSA Leadership and Skills Championship, a drafting skills competition.

On Jan. 28, Delta College will be hosting the first level of competition for the 2012 SkillsUSA Championships, with the Region 5 Competition being held at 8 a.m., inside Atherton Auditorium. Admission is free.

Kameron Smith ranks 13th in the state in drafting. The Lodi High School senior recently took first place in two industrial arts competitions and is headed to a state competition this month.

Lodi High School SkillsUSA Club would like to express their sincere thanks to the Lodi Sunrise and Lodi Tokay Rotary clubs for their generous donations.

Lodi High School's Speech and Debate Team returned Monday from the state tournament in Bakersfield with two students going as far as the semi-finals. There were a total of eight school participants.

A split vote by the Lodi Unified School District board means a charter school won't be allowed to open as planned, and one of the district's oldest schools won't close.

Lodi Unified School District trustees are expected to approve new attendance boundaries for both Needham Elementary and Heritage Primary Elementary schools at tonight's school board meeting.

Eight Lodi High School drafting students took gold medals in a recent regional competiton and will be heading to the state championships in April.

Three girls told police that a man in a van followed them Thursday evening, made several U-turns and asked three times if they wanted a ride.

Some came for the reptiles, some came for the music, some came for the girls. But no matter the reason for attendance, the first visitors to the San Joaquin County Fair on Wednesday afternoon had two things in common: They wanted to have a good time and beat the heat.

Melissa Levy

Six Bear Creek High School students took home medals from the SkillsUSA state tournament in Fresno.

Lodi High's decorated SkillsUSA team will once again send a student to the national competition.

Lodi and Bear Creek high schools cleaned up at the SkillsUSA Regional Championships.

Lodi High School's SkillsUSA team cleaned up at San Joaquin Delta College's Engineering Day last week, taking several top spots and sweeping the advanced engineering design competition.

Nick Iturraran's teachers have never known him to be short on confidence. That's why when Paul Guthrie, architectural design and mechanical drafting teacher at Lodi High School, needed an extra person to round out his team, he picked Iturraran.

When you walk into Paul Guthrie's classroom at Lodi High School, the first thing that catches your eye is the award wall.

Students from Lodi, Tokay and Bear Creek High Schools won awards at the 40th annual SkillsUSA state competition held on April 19-22.

SkillsUSA is a national organization focusing on technical, skilled and service-based occupational education.