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New recreation area proposed for Sweet Home Junior High
A viral sport taking the U.S. by storm could soon be played at Sweet Home's Junior High, as the Sweet Home School board approved funds for six new pickleball courts. It's part of a recreation area...
Contractor picked for Oak Heights seismic upgrades
The Sweet Home School board has picked Gerding Builders of Corvallis as the contractor that will oversee seismic improvements to Oak Heights Elementary School. The board made the unanimous decision...
Business Manager: District Tries to Buy Food Locally
At the Aug. 14 Sweet Home School District board meeting at the District Office, Kevin Strong, the district's business manager, gave a presentation on the district's nutrition services program. He...
New Band Instructor Is Former SHHS band alum
The new band instructor at Sweet Home High School was most recently an English teacher at the school, but she brings 15 years of musical instruction experience to the role. Born and raised in Sweet Ho...
Klumph and Wright Named SHHS Freshmen of the Year
Cannon Klumph and Selah Wright have been named this year's Sweet Home High School Freshmen of the Year. The award is decided by SHHS staff members based on academic achievement, extracurricular...
New School Board members sworn in
New Sweet Home School District Board members Amanda Carter, Mary Massey, Floyd Neuschwander and Jenna Jo Northern were sworn in Monday evening, July 10, at the board's monthly meeting. Massey was...
Sweet Home High School announces Honor Roll
Following are Sweet Home HIgh School students who have been announced by the school as having made the Second Semester Honor Roll for 2023. Students on Honor Roll must have taken at least four letter graded classes (A-C). Students who receive a D,...
LBCC reduces tuition increase to 5%
The Linn-Benton Community College Board of Education voted Monday, June 26, to reduce the 2023-24 tuition increase from 6%, as proposed earlier this year, to 5%. "Ensuring that hard-working students... Full story
Sixth-graders say 'good-bye' at Hawthorne
Talon Temple waves to the crowd after getting a certificate of promotion at Hawthorne School's Sixth Grade Promotion on June 14. Behind him is sixth-grade teacher Pete Saveskie....
Field Day for Sweet Home Junior High
Sweet Home Junior High students compete in a tug-of-war during their Field Day Thursday, June 15, at Husky Stadium See more photos in our online gallery....
Secretary has left the building
On her second-to-last day of work, Cyndi Rinehart was still busy at the front desk at Holley School. A mother of an incoming student walked in. The phone rang. A reporter asked questions and took...
SHJH eighth-graders move on
Students enter Husky Field for the Sweet Home Junior High eighth-grade graduation ceremony. See more photos in our online gallery....
UP, UP & AWAY
Crowds of families and friends cheered as 129 newly minted Sweet Home High School graduates turned their tassels and flung them skyward at a graduation ceremony Friday evening, June 9, at Husky...
School board OKs $65M budget plan
The Sweet Home School District Board of Directors on Monday, June 12, approved a $65,236,782 budget for fiscal year 2023-24, nearly $10 million dollars more than the current year’s adopted budget of $55,584,273. The budget includes the addition of...
High school CTE students honored at banquet
Sweet Home High School's Career Technical Education programs held an awards banquet on June 1 at the high school. Each department presented an Upper and Lower Classman of the Year award. Honorees...
Outdoor School at Camp Tadmor
Sweet Home School District elementary school students learn some fishing skills during a session of Outdoor Schol held last week at Camp Tadmor. Students from throughout the district learned about...
Familiar faces, new roles
The Sweet Home School District will see some familiar faces in new (and, in one instance, familiar) leadership roles in the upcoming 2023-24 academic year. Current Sweet Home High School assistant...
Two Sweet Home High students receive Ford scholarships
Success Coordinator Kristin Adams has worked at Sweet Home High School since 2006. During that time, she recalls only two Ford Scholars program scholarship recipients: Alex Olin (now Alex Gaskey) in...
Training on wheels
As some two dozen fifth-graders stood at attention with mountain bikes, Jay Thatcher barked instructions on the Holley School playground Friday morning, June 2. The students were participating in a...
Vals, sal lead SHHS Class of 2023
Four valedictorians and one salutatorian will lead the Sweet Home High School Class of 2023 graduation exercises, scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 9, at Husky Field, 1012 22nd Ave....
Sweet Home FFA enjoys spring bounty
By Annabelle Morris Sweet Home FFA Member The Sweet Home chapter of Future Farmers of America has accomplished and seen a lot over the last few months. First, we attended the March 16-19 Oregon FFA...
Auction and More at Oak Heights
It was fun and games Saturday evening, May 20, at Oak Heights as the school PTC put on its annual carnival and auction, which provides funds for school needs and activities....
Learning About Birds and Trees
Kate McMichael, right, of the Eugene chapter of Oregon Women in Timber, teaches Riley Allison, left, and Callen Barter, center, as well as other Hawthorne Elementary School students, about natural...
May ESPY Winners
ESPY Award winners for May, honored at the May 8 School Board meeting, are, from left, Delton O'Neal, sixth grade, Hawthorne; Mason Lopez, senior, Sweet Home High School; Everleigh Higholt, fourth...
Hawthorne wins attendance
Schools Supt. Terry Martin, left, congratulates Aaron Huff, interim principal at Hawthorne School, which won the trophy for best attendance during the month of April. Hawthorne's attendance...
