The summer groove: Young students learn new skills from Mac High mentors
As they cut copper pipe, pounded it flat, heated it and formed artistic bracelets, summer school students as well as instructors were learning new skills. The middle schoolers in a fabrication ...
New principal learning in his first weeks at Mac High
David Furman is a little like the new freshman who will be starting classes at McMinnville High School next month. The new students and Furman, Mac High’s new principal, will need to learn ...
District reaches contract agreement with classified union
McMinnville School Board and the district’s classified employees have reached a new, three-year contract. Members of the Oregon School Employees Association — teaching assistants, secretaries, ...
Appeals Court reverses doxing decision by county judge
The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that a Yamhill County judge should have dismissed a lawsuit which claimed that a group of parents had doxed members of the Newberg School Board in 2021. School ...
Goodbye, Columbus; hello, Willamette
Students in southwest McMinnville will attend Willamette Elementary School, rather than Columbus Elementary, the school board decided Monday night. They chose Willamette as the new name for the school ...
McMinnville School Board to meet
McMinnville School Board members will consider approving a new contract with the classified staff when they meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 10, in the district office, 800 N.E. Lafayette Ave. In addition, ...
Wine bar will be learning lab for Linfield students
Linfield University students will learn about running a business and serving customers, and community members will have another location for sipping wine, when the new Acorn to Oak wine bar opens ...
Linfield hires new academic leader
Linfield University has hired Dr. Beth Concepción, formerly a professor and vice provost at Missouri University of Science and Technology, as its new chief academic officer. Concepción ...
Linfield undeterred by affirmative action ruling
The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-based affirmative action for college applications won’t impact Linfield University’s pursuit of a diverse student body, officials ...
Building history: Children learn about their downtown
The Cozine House covered with popsicle sticks and beads. McMinnville’s old electric plant shown in a painting. A cardboard version of the brick building that now holds Two Dogs Taphouse, ...
Stopping By: Champion of public education reflects on 24 years on school board
Longtime McMinnville School Board member Janis Braich had her first experience with public education when she took a job as a school nurse in the Estacada School District. She hadn’t gone ...
Longtime school board member: 'Everyone was there for the right reason'
Hiring a superintendent is one of a school board’s three duties, according to Janis Braich, who took part in the hiring of two – Maryalice Russell and Debbie Brockett – during ...
At Y-C, ‘celebration, reflection, anticipation’
High school graduations are all about transitions, from the class as a whole down to individuals. The June 10 Yamhill Carlton High School commencement was a poignant moment for a father and son ...
Dayton High’s ‘big kids’ get their diplomas
As Patrick Verdun gave the commencement address at Dayton’s commencement ceremony on Saturday, he wanted to share some tips with the graduating class, while also sprinkling in some humor. “Ten ...
McMinnville board OKs school budget for ’23-24
McMinnville School District won’t have to dip as far into its reserve funds as expected to continue current programs next year, Superintendent Debbie Brockett told the school board Monday ...
