McMinnville board plans school budget hearing

McMinnville School Board will hold a public meeting about the proposed 2026-27 budget at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 8, following by a business session at 6:40 p.m. Later in the evening, the board will vote ...

Starla Pointer/News-Register##Kylie Wilson, right, draws blood from fellow medical assisting student Rylee Strong, left, while Mallorie Turley monitors the practice session. All three earned their MA certification through the McMinnville High School/Chemeketa Community College class.

Charting their course

Although they haven’t quite graduated from high school, more than a dozen students are already certified to work as medical assistants. They completed their training through a cooperative program ...

Art Conspiracy offers summer art classes

Yamhill County students can register for The West Valley Art Conspiracy Summer Arts Program, celebrating its 25th year at Sheridan High School. Openings remain in several of the courses, including Make ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Willamina High School graduate Kelsea Gray looks out to the sea of family members and supporters on Saturday, May 30. First-year Principal Jeremy Hurl said he was “overwhelmed” by community support for the graduates. Families began gathering two hours before commencement was scheduled to begin.

On to the next chapter, Bulldogs graduate

“We are not supposed to be here, every indigenous student standing here with us is not supposed to be here,” Salutatorian Cheyenne Haller said in her commencement speech during the Willamina ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Graduates chant “Si, se puede” — “Yes, we can” — during Linfield University’s commencement ceremony Sunday in McMinnville after speaker Gregory Nava encouraged students to “not only build a career, but build a better world.”

Armed with actual intelligence

You can succeed and contribute to the world, Linfield University’s Class of 2026 heard Sunday. Yes, you can, and you already have. It happens with the help of AI — actual intelligence, said ...

Mac High to graduate largest class

McMinnville High School will graduate its largest-ever class, about 570 students, in ceremonies starting at 7 p.m. Friday, June 5, at Wortman Stadium. Thousands of relatives and friends attend the annual ...

Class of 2026 to graduate throughout the county

Graduation season in Yamhill County begins Saturday, May 30, with Willamina High School’s commencement ceremonies. The Class of 2026 will graduate at 10 a.m. Linfield University will graduate its ...

Summer program returns to Faulconer-Chapman

The Faulconer-Chapman School’s Summer Learning Around the World Program is returning with a registration deadline of June 10. During the summer learning program, students will travel the globe without ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Registrar Roseanne Roberts, left, talks with exchange student Raghad “Rae” Ben Ameur from Tunisia, center, and MHS student Nancy Granados in her office at McMinnville High School. Behind her, a bulletin board shows off photos of her family and some of the 315 exchange students with whom she has worked. Roberts has been one of the first people students from other countries meet when they arrive at the school since she became registrar and International Club adviser in 2003. She is retiring in June.

Stopping By: Global ally - Roseanne Roberts reflects on years working with exchange students

Retiring Mac High registrar Roseanne Roberts reflects on years working with exchange students

Linfield to graduate nearly 500

Linfield University will graduate about 480 members of the Class of 2026 from its colleges of arts and sciences, business and nursing on Sunday, May 31, in ceremonies on the McMinnville campus. The commencement ...

Willamina graduation planned

Seventy-four Willamina Bulldogs will walk during the graduation ceremony starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 30, at Willamina High School. The valedictorians for the Class of 2026 are Evan Gideon Loika ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Delilah (Lana Spenner), who uses fantasy as a way of coping with being in a new town and school, sings with Prince Oliver (Gavin Newhouse) in the junior version of the musical “Between the Lines.” The show features students from both Patton and Duniway middle schools. It runs Thursday through Sunday, May 28 to 31.

Middle-schoolers present musical

McMinnville Middle School Drama, which includes students from both Duniway and Patton middle schools, will present its spring musical, “Between the Lines Jr.,” Thursday through Sunday, May ...

Mac school board has opening

McMinnville School District is seeking applicants for an opening on the school board. Board member Abbie Warmbier plans to resign in June because she is moving out of state. Applicants for the opening ...

Mac school district budget committee approves proposal

McMinnville School District’s Budget Committee approved a proposed spending plan for the 2026-27 school year during its second meeting Wednesday night. The proposal will go to the school board for ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Standing beside a shelf full of pink impatiens, horticulture student Michael Wilson checks on a lily plant students grew for the Garden Shed. Dayton High’s horticulture career pathway students and FFA members worked on the plant sale.

Dayton students’ spring plant sale combines science, business and art

Dayton High School students planted and germinated seeds, tended tiny seedlings and repotted them in a variety of ways for their annual “Garden Shed” spring sale. After assisting customers ...

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