Ptoto by Tarmo Hannula

NEW SCHOOL YEAR Steven Ornelas greets his daughter Karissa after her first day of school at E.A. Hall Middle School. All 35 Pajaro Valley Unified School District schools started classes Wednesday. 

“I have a great teacher,” said Karissa, who graduated from Mintie White Elementary School next door in June.

She joined roughly 13,000 students throughout the district that started their school year.

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Tarmo Hannula
Tarmo Hannula has been the lead photographer with The Pajaronian newspaper in Watsonville since 1997. More recently Good Times & Press Banner. He also reports on a wide range of topics, including police, fire, environment, schools, the arts and events. A fifth generation Californian, Tarmo was born in the Mother Lode of the Sierra (Columbia) and has lived in Santa Cruz County since the late 1970s. He earned a BA from UC Santa Cruz and has traveled to 33 countries.

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