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The Alva Board of Education enjoyed hearing from two speakers during their regular meeting Monday. Board President Jane McDermott opened the meeting

For the nearly thirty years that I’ve lived in my house, the Nestucca Valley school buses have rumbled up and down Parkway Drive, Bridge and Brook Streets, ferrying students back

The Alva Public Library has a good problem. The demand for meeting space is growing larger than they can accommodate sometimes. Library Director

With the new school year just around the corner, its time to stock up on school supplies. However, many families struggle to afford school

Summer programs were very popular at the Alva Public Library as shown by the number of participants. On week seven, there were 32 kids participating

The summer reading program at the Alva Public Library kicked off the week of June 6 with more than 110 youngsters registered. They have been divided

When Mary Beth Tinker, her brother John and his friend Chris Eckhardt chose to protest the war in Vietnam in 1965, they forever changed the way that student expression is

The landmark Supreme Court decision Tinker v. Des Moines secured students’ right to free speech at school.