Staff gears up for start of school
McMinnville schools welcomed about 70 new teachers and other staff members Monday, and about 800 returnees Thursday, as the district gets ready for the Aug. 28 start of classes. McMinnville students usually ...
Mac school board sets goals
McMinnville School Board on Monday approved a set of goals it wants the district to work on over the next three years. Part of the conversation was new board member Lu Ann Anderson, who was sworn in by ...
School board, city council joint meeting postponed
Update: the joint sessionhas been postponed and will not happen Aug. 28. ------ McMinnville School Board will host a joint meeting with the McMinnville City Council on Monday, Aug. 28. The ...
Families look forward to pre-kindergarten
Both Myles Fletcher and Charlotte Malcomson are looking forward to starting the pre-kindergarten transition program at Wascher Elementary this month. Both have heard about the wonders of school ...
Linfield offers support to students with ties to Maui
Many Linfield University students and alumni are from or have ties to the Hawaiian islands, and when school officials heard about the devastating fires on Maui, they reached out to those students ...
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, ...
