Scott Swanson
Sweet Home school officials were scrambling Monday evening, Jan. 3, after the Oregon Department of Education recommended earlier in the day that schools cease after-school extracurricular activities to reduce the spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19.
The ODE issued the School Health Advisory as “the most critical and urgent issued to date” on Monday after announcements by medical authorities that omicron numbers were pushing up COVID rates around the state.
The ODE’s…