Grants will boost school career programs
Farm and table will become expanded areas of learning in local schools. That and fire science, dentistry, and cosmetology, among others. Thanks to Career-Tech Education Revitalization Grants from the ...
Districts will gain electric school buses
First Student plans to build a charging station and add electric buses to its local fleet. The company contracts to transport students in McMinnville, Amity, Dayton and Willamina, The buses will be cleaner ...
Willamina ramps up superintendent search
The Willamina School Board hopes to name a new superintendent the week of Monday, March 18, and make a selection announcement at the Monday, April 8, board meeting. The board received a superintendent ...
Willamina working toward naming new superintendent
The Willamina School Board received a superintendent search update at the Monday, Jan. 8 meeting, and learned the position has officially opened. The plan is to have a new leader selected the week of March ...
Willamina City Council will act on law enforcement contract
The Willamina City Council is scheduled to act Tuesday on Polk County’s status regarding a law enforcement contract. Council will consider staff recommendation that it either inform the Polk County ...
Willamina School Board receives superintendent update
The Willamina School Board will receive a superintendent update when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 8, in the school library. Carrie Zimbrick, who has worked in multiple administrative, coaching and ...
Amended Grand Ronde Reservation Act passes
The Grand Ronde Reservation Act, restoring the right to pursue land claims and compensation for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, has cleared both chambers of Congress. President Joe Biden’s ...
Willamina schools take a hard look at literacy
Willamina School Board learned about the “science of reading” and funding for elementary literacy at its Dec. 11 meeting. Superintendent Carrie Zimbrick and other school staff reported ...
Shooting sends Willamina resident to prison
Stephen Darrell Price will serve 7 1/2 years in prison for shooting a man in Grand Ronde on Dec. 25, 2022, after a verbal altercation on the victim’s property. The 36-year-old Price, a Willamina ...
FCI-Sheridan inmate dies
An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution-Sheridan facility’s satellite camp, adjacent to the main prison complex, was found unresponsive and pronounced dead a short time later on ...
Three agencies interested in Willamina law enforcement contract
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has joined the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office and Grand Ronde Tribal Police Department in offering their services to Willamina for law enforcement ...
Yamhill, Sheridan host holiday events
Yamhill and Sheridan residents will gather in their respective cities for Christmas events this weekend. * Yamhill’s annual tree lighting event will be held at 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. ...
Grand Ronde man sentenced to 35 years in prison
A Grand Ronde man has been sentenced to 35 years and four months in prison after being convicted of multiple sex crimes. Shawn Anthoney Cupp, 32, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Nov. 21, before Polk County Circuit ...
Stolen nursery truck recovered; Dayton owner loses cash and plants
Alderbrook Gardens owner Leslie Overgard said she was devastated to discover the theft on Monday, Nov. 27, of a 1999 Ford box truck, which happened during a delivery. The truck was stolen from ...
A haunting loss: Questions, grief linger for woman whose sister died on Hwy. 18
Coliene Roberts won’t ever forget the visit by an Oregon State Police trooper to her rural Sheridan home. Trooper Justin Zemlicka delivered news that shook her to her core. On Friday, Oct. ...
