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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 Strong. And plenty of students of all ages will be taking advantage of the programs in the coming months, it appears.

More than 300 have signed up for summer schooling thus far, principals say.

Sweet Home’s share of the state grant is $340,128 for kindergarten through eighth-grade summer enrichment programming and $268,064 for high school summ...