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ONTARIO — Unless a meeting is scheduled sooner, the Ontario School Board of Directors will be discussing how to fill a vacancy during its meeting on April 25.

ONTARIO — During its regular meeting on Monday, the Ontario School Board of Directors voted 3-2 to enter a Hold Harmless Agreement with Ontario High School Principal Jodi Elizondo. Board

VALE — The first round of unofficial results for the 2021 Special District Director Election are in, with ballot boxes having closed at 8 p.m. Results, including voter percentage turnouts, remain unofficial until they are finalized by Malheur County Clerk Gayle Trotter on June 2.  “Majority will be complete by the time we go home tonight though,” she wrote in an email to the newspaper on Tuesday afternoon.  At 2:30 p.m., Trotter said 31% of ballots — 5,196 of the 17,053 registered voters had returned their ballots, and an update was not available this evening. Not...

ONTARIO The Ontario School Board of Directors is not seeking to fill its fifth seat at this time due to a technicality over a resignation. Director Derrick Draper verbally resigned “effective immediately,” from his Position 4 seat, the term for which ends in June, during an executive session on April 19. The board addressed the matter in open session that night, stating that while Draper’s resignation was acknowledged, it was not asked for nor expected. However, since then, it has been discovered that Draper’s resignation was not official. Additionally, Draper is still off...

ONTARIO Ontario School Board of Directors member Derrick Draper walked out in the middle of an executive session tonight, saying he was giving his resignation effective immediately. The board was meeting in-person in the board room. The meeting  was to go over the findings of an investigation with its lawyer per its notice to media on April 16 that the meeting was “under ORS 192.660 (2) (f) to receive legal advice regarding the investigation report.” After coming out into open session, board member Craig Geddes read a statement saying that the board acknowledged Draper’s res...