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Roger Traina of the Tracy Breakfast Lions Club watches as the American flag is raised on the new flagpole dedicated to former teacher Carole Merrill at Traina Elementary School on Thursday, May 16. Merrill died of a heart attack while teaching in an eighth grade classroom in 2011. Carole Merrill died of a heart attack in 2011 while teaching an eighth-grade class at the school. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
Roger Traina of the Tracy Breakfast Lions Club watches as the American flag is raised on the new flagpole dedicated to former teacher Carole Merrill at Traina Elementary School on Thursday, May 16. Merrill died of a heart attack while teaching in an eighth grade classroom in 2011. Carole Merrill died of a heart attack in 2011 while teaching an eighth-grade class at the school. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
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Traina teacher remembered
by Denise Ellen Rizzo
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Students, school employees and family members gathered Thursday to dedicate the Traina School flagpole to Carole Merrill, who died in 2011.
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West High football coach Chris Myers leads the Wolf Pack football team through stretching exercises on his first official day as West’s head coach on Wednesday, May 15. Bob Brownne/Tracy Press.
Fresh face, new approach for West football
Starting this week, the West High football program gets a fresh start. Chris Myers was already active with the Wolf Pack football team before Wednesday, May 15, his first official day as head coach...
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Tracy High’s Iris Cruz (left) and Kourtney Merkt try to take the ball away from a Del Campo player on Tuesday, May 7, at Tracy High. Tracy High beat Del Campo 5-1 to advance to the next round of playoffs. Photo courtesy of Wayne Thallander
Girls Soccer: Area teams eliminated in semifinal round
Tracy High’s girls soccer team was eliminated from the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II semifinals Wednesday, May 15, with a 1-0 loss at Ponderosa High in Shingle Springs. Tracy coach Nate Perry sai...
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Tracy Talks: Teen faces Lyme disease with courage
by Anne Marie Fuller / For the Tracy Press
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Samantha Heinrich, 16, is undergoing treatment for Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks, after testing positive in June.

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