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School budget committee looks at 2026-27; staff cuts expected

With rising costs, declining enrollment and flat state school funding, McMinnville School District expects to trim several positions to balance the budget for 2026-27, Superintendent Kourtney Ferrua told ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Brian Bixler spends time with students outside Willamette Elementary School, which in 2024 planted a Moon Tree that had flown into space on the Artemis I mission. Willamette is one of only a few schools in the nation to plant a Moon Tree seedling. Bixler, who is fascinated with the space program, applied for it on behalf of the school.

Stopping By: Space to learn

Teacher encourages kids’ natural ability to acquire knowledge through play

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Kim Libonati of the McMinnville Lions Club, second from right, and Eric Svec, dean of students at Duniway Middle School, give directions to sixth-graders who’ve just arrived in Ed Grenfell Park Monday morning for a service day project. The students worked with Lions Club members to refurbish the park’s horseshoe pits.

Students, Lions redo park pits

To the tune of water bubbling over rocks in nearby Baker Creek, Duniway Middle School sixth-graders and members of the McMinnville Lions Club dug and scraped and constructed Monday morning. The students, ...

School budget committee to meet

McMinnville School Superintendent Kourtney Ferrua will deliver her budget message Wednesday, May 6, at the first formal meeting of the district’s budget committee. The public session will start ...

Emily Bonsant/News-Register##Former Gov. Barbara Roberts poses for a photo April 24 with an emblem of the planned Career Technical Education Center in Sheridan that will bear her name. Roberts, who served from 1991 to 1995 as Oregon’s first woman governor, graduated from Sheridan High School in 1955.

Barbara Roberts center in Sheridan to offer vocational courses before construction

Rural Yamhill and Polk County school districts are joining forces to bring career technical education to students sooner rather than later. The Barbara Roberts Career Technical Education Center, a vocational ...

School district approves RIF, saying budget shortfall may mean layoffs

McMinnville School Board members approved an action Monday they said they hope becomes unnecessary: a Reduction in Force notice. Under state law and agreements with its unions, the district can use RIF ...

Starla Pointer/News-Register##Inside the existing junior-varsity softball team room, Brian Crain, left, director of facilities for the school district, talks about needed improvements during a tour of athletic facilities in 2025. Construction of a new, more spacious team room will start this spring. On the tour, Crain was accompanied by, from center, school board members LuAnn Anderson and Christine Bader, Superintendent Kourtney Ferrua and board member Gerardo Partida.

Non-operating funds to be used for sports facilities

McMinnville School District will soon begin two projects to improve sports facilities: a new team room for junior varsity softball and upgrades to the dugout and concession stand for varsity baseball. Both ...

News-Register file photo/Rusty Rae##Shortly after becoming Linfield University’s president last year, Mark Blegen discusses his hopes for growing Linfield’s enrollment and tailoring offerings to meet the needs of a variety of students. Blegen, who came to McMinnville from the Upper Midwest, will be officially inaugurated as president on May 8.

New Linfield president to be formally inaugurated during ceremonial week

Mark Blegen, who became Linfield University’s president last summer, will be officially installed Friday, May 8, on the McMinnville campus. The investiture ceremony at 3 p.m. in Ted Wilson Gym will ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Third-grade students from Newby Elementary School program robots to complete tasks across competition boards during a Robotics Jamboree on Friday, April 17, at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. Teams tested their coding and teamwork skills in a friendly competition, while students from McMinnville High School assisted with scoring and guidance. The program spans multiple elementary schools across the McMinnville School District, giving students an early, hands-on introduction to coding and problem-solving.

Photos: Bring on the bots

Kids build teamwork and problem-solving skills during Robotics Jamboree

Dayton FBLA students heading to nationals

Fifteen Dayton Jr./Sr. High School students competed in the state Future Business Leaders of American leadership conference in Eugene earlier this month. Thirteen earned Top Four placements and qualified ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Willamina student Stephen Sanchez-Haller welds the base of a BBQ pit as part of the SkillUSA welding contest on April 10. Haller along with Jace Warnicke and Joseph Godwin will represent Oregon at the National competition on in Atlanta, Georgia from June 1-5.

Putting in overtime: Willamina students take night college trade courses

Willamina High School shop students have been working double shifts of classes — attending high school during the day and night classes at Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC). Four days a week, ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Willamina welding students finished building a 53-foot trailer, complete with kitchen, in the summer of 2022. When a fire damaged the kitchen at the Yamhill County Jail, the truck was used to feed inmates. Seniors Evan Lockwood and Edwin Nuñez, above, are two of the students who worked on the project. They enjoy working with their hands and were among the first students at Willamina High School to take a night course at Linn-Benton Community College for the Machine Technology program.

Student-built shop trailer helps feed inmates after county jail kitchen fire

Years after it started as a pair of axles and a load of steel, the Willamina High School shop class’s 53-foot trailer saved the day at the Yamhill County Jail. The Bulldogs long had the idea of ...

Mac School Board considers RIF statement

McMinnville School Board members will consider approving a Reduction in Force statement at their Monday, April 27, meeting. The one-item business session will start at 6:30 p.m. in the district office, ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Visiting educator Aubryn Walters, center, shows second-graders how to separate three seedlings growing in the same pot so that each can be planted separately. Walters lives in Washington, D.C., but was visiting Newby, her former elementary school.

Growing big and strong

As their recess ended Tuesday, second-graders lined up at the gate of the Newby Elementary School playground, eager for it to open so they could reach the school’s raised bed garden. “Garden’s ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Julius Vetter, a 16-year-old from Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany, raises his hand to speak during a discussion in a McMinnville High School German language class. Vetter and his classmates, including Felicia Ortlieb, on his right, are visiting Mac High this month; local students will travel to Neuenburg in June.

German and American students learn about life and language in each other’s countries

German exchange students who are spending two weeks at McMinnville High School have been impressed by the friendliness of who they’ve met in Oregon. “All are really nice, really happy,” ...

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