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New Board member Hoffman
Sara Hoffman looks forward to serving the Zone 1 area on the Sweet Home School District school board. But she didn’t necessarily expect to be selected. It was her friend, Jenna Northern, who posted...
PEO awards scholarships to four women
Sweet Home PEO Chapter DD has announced its annual scholarship winners. Three young women were awarded Oregon State Chapter Scholarships. Samantha Hutchins and Mikayla Spencer were awarded scholarship...
New School Board members Albert, Hoffman sworn in
The Sweet Home School District's July 19 board meeting at the district office featured some new faces. Recently elected school board members Janice Albert and Sara Hoffman took their oath of office...
School board to conduct special meeting Monday
The Sweet Home Board of Directors will hold a special board meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, July 19. Due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 state-wide restrictions, and in keeping with the efforts of social distancing to reduce the spread of the...
Honor Rolls
SHHS announces spring Honor Roll Following are Sweet Home High School students who have been announced by the school as having made the First Semester Honor Roll for 2020-21. Students on Honor Roll must have taken at least four letter graded classes...
Summer school proving popular
Students – lots of them – are signing up to participate in summer school in Sweet Home this year. This year is the first the Sweet Home School District will receive state funding solely for summer programs, said District Business Manager Kevin...
School Board seeking to fill vacant seats
The Sweet Home School District seeks applicants for two positions on the School Board. Although winners were announced for both the Crawfordsville and Foster seats on the board, Crawfordsville winner John Marble declined to accept the seat, and...
At Last, The Finish Line
Forecasted rain held off as hundreds of friends and family of Sweet Home High School's class of 2021 celebrated the graduation of 128 young people after a senior year like no other. Onlookers sat on...
Outdoors students build own boards, skis at Hoodoo
Fifteen Sweet Home High School juniors and seniors in Lindsey Haggas' outdoor PE class went to the Santiam SnoLab at Hoodoo Ski Area over the last few weeks to design and build their own skis and...
Superintendent Tom Yahraes says it's time to leave district
Superintendent Tom Yahraes announced to the Sweet Home School Board at its June 14 meeting that he will be resigning from the position of Sweet Home School District's superintendent, effective August...
SHHS graduation a go this week – with conditions
Sweet Home High School’s graduation ceremony will be held on Friday, June 11 at 7 p.m. on Husky Field, weather permitting. The ceremony is not open to the community. Visitors can attend with a ticket only. Each graduate will receive six tickets...
Dozen top students to lead SHHS graduation exercises Friday
Twelve Sweet Home High School seniors have been named named to lead graduation exercises this Friday, June 11, at Husky Field (see accompanying story). Valedictorians, all of whom finished with...
Write-in candidate winners named for Sweet Home School Board
Winners have been finalized for Sweet Home School Board seats on the ballot in the May 18 election, including write-in vote recipients for seats for which candidates registered in the May 18 election. In the only contested race for a board seat for...
Local teens participate in landmark RDI leadership program
Twelve Sweet Home School District students, mostly from Sweet Home Junior High, but some from the high school and one from Holley Elementary School, graduated from a Rural Development Initiative leade...
Students ready to perform 'Many Disguises of Robinhood'
Sweet Home High School students will perform "The Many Disguises of Robinhood" Thursday through Saturday, May 27, 28 and 29, at the high school's auditorium. Seating starts at 6:45 p.m. on May 27 and...
$55 million schools budget goes to board
Sweet Home School District Budget Committee members unanimously approved a 2021-22 budget of $55,024,931 at their May 10 meeting. That total is a marked increase from the $45,960,296 that was budgeted last year. “By almost any measure, we have...
Fourth Focus
Elspeth Liermann stands in her first-grade classroom at Hawthorne School. The lights are dimmed, and she's surrounded by kids, all reading – "Star Wars" stories. It's Tuesday, May 4, and it's...
School district outlines plans for SIA funds
Sweet Home School District’s 2021-22 Proposed Budget proposes using the Student Investment Account (SIA), funded by the state, to eliminate pay-to-play fees for sports and other extracurricular activities so every student can participate without fe...
Behind two state titlists, Huskies third in virtual forestry competition
Sweet Home High School Forestry Club members finished third as a team in a virtual state forestry competition held during the month of April. Students submitted entries in various events. "We were...
School Board seat has two candidates as others opt for noncompetitive positions
Ballots were mailed late last week to Sweet Home voters for Sweet Home's May 18 School Board election. The only competitive School Board race will be the Zone 8 At Large seat, for the Sweet Home Schoo...
