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Just a few days after being moved to Extreme Risk, Deschutes, Crook and 13 other counties will move back to high risk.

Bend-La Pine Schools trim high school in-person classes amid rising COVID-19 cases, quarantines Bend-La Pine Schools Many middle schoolers to have remote learning again on Wednesdays BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Bend-La Pine Schools have seen 130 COVID-19 cases in the past four weeks, including more than 20 each at Bend, Mountain View and Summit high schools, prompting late-term schedule changes and shorter school days for many high schoolers, the district informed parents on Wednesday. Many middle sc...

Jay Mathisen chosen as new Jefferson County schools superintendent MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A familiar face in Central Oregon education will be returning to the High Desert this summer to lead the Jefferson County School District 509-J as its new superintendent. The school district announced in a Facebook post Friday that the school board has chosen Dr. Jay Mathisen as its new superintendent, starting July 1, after contract negotiations are wrapped up. Mathisen, currently director of educational...

The Pioneer does a Q&A with finalists Jay Mathisen, Dan Koopman and Jeffry Davis Jefferson County School District 509-J Board members have selected their top three candidates for the superintendent position. Two candidates are leaders at Oregon colleges, and the third is from a Washington school district. This week, the board of directors will begin conducting final candidate interviews with three superintendent finalists, Jay Mathisen, Dan Koopman and Jeffry Davis. The district will host th...

SELCO Community Credit Union, through its annual SPARK! Creative Learning Grants program, has awarded more than $42,000 to 47 educators across Oregon. The program, which provides funding for innovative educational and extracurricular projects, provides grants of as much as $1,000 to K-12 educators across the 27 Oregon counties that SELCO serves. The SPARK! program has long supported teachers who have creative classroom ideas but lack the funds to get those projects off the ground. This year’s...

SELCO COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION AWARDS 47 SPARK! CREATIVE LEARNING GRANTS WORTH $42,000 TO 38 OREGON SCHOOLS 13 programs from Central Oregon schools receive grants, which award as much as $1,000 to K-12 educators in SELCO communities across the state (EUGENE) — SELCO Community Credit Union, through its annual SPARK! Creative Learning Grants program has awarded more than $42,000 to 47 educators across Oregon. The program, which provides funding for innovative educational and extracurricular proj...

A 74-year-old Central Oregon man with no criminal record was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing two young neighbors over a six-year period. Louis Taiyon Apo lived in La Pine from 2012 to 2018, when he repeatedly sodomized and sexually assaulted two girls living next door. Apo was living near Culver at the time of his arrest in October 2019. “This family has been turned absolutely upside down,” said prosecutor Stacy Neil. “The victims continue to suffer and will ...