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PENDLETON — More than most, Dave Wallace knows that life can change in an instant. Up until 13 months ago, Wallace enjoyed an easy-going existence with his wife Danielle and their two children. The close-knit family liked to camp and mushroom hunt and take vacations together at the coast and Wallowa Lake. Some people know Dave as former Round-Up groundskeeper and master chef of the Pendleton High School Mud Wars tug-of-war pit. Wallace and his crew spent a couple of days each year masterfu...

PENDLETON — A third principal from the Pendleton School District is resigning this year. At a Tuesday, April 6, Pendleton School Board meeting, members approved the resignation of Washington Elementary School Principal Aimee VanNice. Prior to arriving in Pendleton in 2012, VanNice had been an elementary school teacher and instructional curriculum leader in Bend. She was the principal of McKay Creek Elementary School for several years before taking over Washington in 2015 as it transitioned...

PENDLETON — Budding Pendleton actress Samantha Craig-Allen is getting her big break this fall when she stars in the upcoming film “Waking Up in Idaho.” The film, scheduled to start shooting in September, is about two women who are new foster moms and the teenagers for whom they are caring. Craig-Allen, 19, plays Anna, a tough girl and the best wrestler in her high school, who was kicked off the team for unsportsmanlike conduct. “Anna has anger issues, while my co-star, Dekin...

PENDLETON — McKay Creek Elementary School Principal Lorena Woods will resign at the end of the school year, meaning the Pendleton School District will need to search for two new principals this spring. Superintendent Chris Fritsch said Woods would continue to work for the district through June and was leaving Pendleton to look for other opportunities elsewhere. The district hired Woods in 2018 to replace Ronda Smith, who had shifted over to Sherwood Heights Elementary School. Woods was a m...

PENDLETON — Melissa Sandven’s three-year tenure as the principal of Pendleton High School is coming to an end. At a Monday, March 8, meeting, the Pendleton School Board is set to approve Sandven’s resignation, which will go into effect June 30. Sandven said she enjoyed her time in Pendleton, but with most of her family located west of the Cascades, she felt like she needed to return to the west side of Oregon. “I couldn’t go another year away from them,” she said. ...

March 9, 1971 Celia Currin of Pendleton, first year student in Harvard School of Business, has been appointed editor of the school’s weekly newspaper. She is the first woman editor in the history of the paper, The Harbus. Miss Currin is a graduate of Pendleton schools and University of Oregon, where she finished in June 1970. She studied her junior university year in England. She began work on the East Oregonian as a reporter of school news as a junior high school student and worked on t...

SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced on Friday, March 5, that she was directing all Oregon schools to offer hybrid or full in-person instruction to all elementary students by

PENDLETON — Umatilla County Public Health confirmed that the Pendleton High School boys soccer and dance teams were exposed to COVID-19.

PENDLETON — As high school athletics ramps back up for the first time in 2021, the Pendleton School District is dealing with potential COVID-19 exposures among two of its sports

MISSION — The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation COVID-19 Incident Command Team has announced plans for Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center to vaccinate area high school students 16 and