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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 Husky field, and more watched from the bleachers.

One of the five valedictorian speakers at the ceremony, Sicily Neuschwander, noted how her class got to experience "not even half" of all the fun senior year experiences many of her peers had been looking forward to for a while.

"It's disappointing and sad, but we're still all here today," Neuschwander said. "We all got through it, overcame every...