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Besides some closures Monday, theres a couple already brewing for Tuesday 2-16: Monday 2/15: All InterMountain ESD Offices – Pendleton Headquarters, Hermiston Punkin Center & La Grande Joseph Building – are  CLOSED on Monday 2/15 due to inclement weather and hazardous road conditions. Staff are working remotely and available via email. Pilot Rock School District is  CLOSED on Monday 2/15 due to inclement weather. Tuesday 2/16: Echo School District will be CLOSED to IN-PERSON Instructio...

PENDLETON — Altrusa International of Pendleton is committed to finding a way to provide continuing support to homeless students in the Pendleton School District. The past three years, the service

PENDLETON — Come this summer, nearly half of the Pendleton School District Board will consist of new faces. At a Jan. 6 school board meeting, Chair Debbie McBee announced that she and board members Gary George and Steve Umbarger intended to retire from the board at the end of their terms expiring in June. The retirements will open three seats on the seven-person school board, and McBee encouraged her colleagues to solicit interest among district residents in running for the seats. The scho...

PENDLETON — In the wake of a bleak week, the administrators of Sunridge Middle School donned costumes. Sunridge Principal Dave Williams became an elf, Jingles McKringle-Berry, and Assistant Principal Jared Tesch turned into Santa Claus as they headed out into the community to deliver stockings filled with gifts to children in the community. Williams noted that Sunridge and the Pendleton School District’s other schools have done this tradition for 15 years, but they usually leave the g...

July 14, 1951 — December 9, 2020 Gregory K. Henson, 69, formerly of Pendleton, Oregon, passed away on Dec. 9, 2020, at his home in Portland. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, and moved to Pendleton, Oregon, at 6 weeks of age, when his father got a job teaching music with Pendleton School District 16R. Greg graduated from Pendleton High School in 1969; and the University of Oregon in 1974. He was an avid and loyal Duck fan his entire life. Greg played the trombone in the Pendleton Junior an...