Five days after a fire ripped through part of Woodburn High School, Woodburn Independent reporter Lindsay Keefer got a sneak peek into the facility. While most of the building will be up and running again before too long, the cleanup requires a lot of work. Cooper Construction is handling the majority of the cleanup, so with their work on top of other contractors, nearly 200 workers have been preparing the school back into working order since the blaze on Friday.
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5/16/2012 4:05:54 PM
WOODBURN — The Woodburn School Board met in an emergency session on Tuesday night to discuss fire updates.Chuck Ransom, principal of Academy of International Studies, told the board that the good news is that Woodburn High School has already completed the minimum requirement for student contact hours.
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5/16/2012 3:16:09 PM
The 26th annual Woodburn District Music Festival has been rescheduled for next Tuesday, May 22 at 7 p.m.The new location is French Prairie Middle School.
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5/15/2012 3:54:13 PM
E-mail your name, phone number and e-mail address to Kelly Howard at woodburnproud@gmail.com. Send monetary donations, with checks payable to Woodburn Proud, Inc.
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5/12/2012 8:22:10 AM
Woodburn Proud is collecting donations to benefit Woodburn High School in the aftermath of the Friday morning fire that destroyed part of the main campus.
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5/11/2012 10:46:06 PM
Updated: Three 15-year-old Woodburn High School students have been charged tonight in connection with the four-alarm fire that destroyed part of the high school and cancelled classes indefinitely.
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5/11/2012 1:10:01 PM
UPDATE:
Woodburn police detectives arrested three 15-year-olds, students of WHS, for
arson, reckless burning and reckless endangering. The juveniles were
transported to the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center.
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5/11/2012 10:36:28 AM
Woodburn High School was evacuated around 9:45 a.m. Friday after a fire was reported coming from the woodworking/metal shop.All staff and students were successfully evacuated, while firefighters from Woodburn, Hubbard and surrounding areas fought the flames.
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5/16/2012 11:49:50 AM
WOODBURN — The only proposed employee layoffs from this year’s budget cuts at the Woodburn School District will be six administrators, but some programs could also be eliminated or dramatically changed.
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5/16/2012 11:44:29 AM
GERVAIS — What should the city of Gervais do with the building formerly used as its City Hall?That is the question before the Gervais City Council now that the city has moved into its new, modern City Hall.
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5/16/2012 11:43:13 AM
WOODBURN — The huge, eye-catching billboard at the Woodburn Company Stores (WCS) usually features sales or displays information on upcoming events. It lets motorists on Interstate 5 know what goods are being offered at the popular mall complex.
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5/16/2012 11:26:44 AM
WOODBURN — The process has been slow, but the city of Woodburn appears to be on the verge of approving some type of ordinance that would allow public murals to go up in specific areas.
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5/16/2012 11:12:14 AM
You’ll see two new faces when you visit West Coast Bank’s west branch.Stop in and say “hi” to Deborah Wade, the new branch manager, and bank teller Evelina Kosovan.
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5/16/2012 11:10:14 AM
HUBBARD — Tom DeArmond Jr. is one of the owners of Oregon Turf & Tree Farms, a family business in Hubbard that has been involved in the grass seed market since the 1940s.
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5/15/2012 4:07:33 PM
HUBBARD — A citizen’s tip has resulted in the arrest of two Canby men suspected of being the ones responsible for a late night “joy ride” that resulted in more than $10,000 of damage to ballfields at North Marion High School.
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5/15/2012 3:52:18 PM
WOODBURN — With a portion of Woodburn High School in ruins after a devastating fire on Friday morning, investigators began the process of sifting through the ashes to determine the source of the blaze.
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5/15/2012 3:44:06 PM
WOODBURN — Since the flames first enveloped part of Woodburn High School, the district staff and students have seen nothing short of enthusiastic support from the community.
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5/15/2012 3:35:47 PM
WOODBURN — With smoke and water damage and uncertainty about all the impacts of the damage Woodburn High School suffered in Friday’s fire, the school district has decided to cancel classes for the entire week of May 14-18.
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5/15/2012 3:29:59 PM
WOODBURN — A fast-spreading fire engulfed part of Woodburn High School on Friday morning. The initial fire call came in at 9:20 a.m., and the Woodburn Fire District swiftly responded to the scene.
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5/9/2012 3:56:05 PM
When life threw Mac Martin a curveball, the Gervais senior decided not to just watch it go by.
Last summer, Mac was a healthy, 17-year-old student-athlete, working for Service Master cleaning schools when he noticed he was having issues breathing.
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5/9/2012 9:31:09 AM
WOODBURN — At a crowded meeting Thursday night, the Woodburn School Board denied that English-only teachers were being targeted for layoffs.
Nearly 100 people filed into the conference room at the district office, with many questioning whether monolingual teachers would be cut.
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5/8/2012 10:10:14 AM
AURORA — North Marion High School was hit with more than $3,000 worth of damage early Monday morning and is soliciting the public’s help in finding the culprits.
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5/8/2012 9:43:46 AM
GERVAIS — The Gervais School Board is set to decide in June on whether to reconfigure the district to one campus for the 2013-14 school year.
The proposal was brought forward a few weeks ago and the board sought public input at a meeting last Wednesday.
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5/8/2012 9:41:19 AM
Many residents of Marion County took advantage of a law enforcement agency-sponsored prescription drug turn-in event on April 28.
In partnership with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), law enforcement agencies from throughout the Willamette Valley participated in the event.
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5/8/2012 9:16:15 AM
WOODBURN — It might have a funny name, but Woodburn’s “Weed and Seed Program” offered many positive benefits that will soon be going away.
For several years, Weed and Seed — a nationwide campaign sponsored by the U.
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5/8/2012 9:13:48 AM
WOODBURN — The Woodburn Police Department (WPD) is warning area residents to be careful about purchasing goods from door-to-door salespeople in the wake of an alleged scam reported by a Woodburn couple.
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5/8/2012 8:52:21 AM
WOODBURN — Imagine rolling hills stretching across the horizon. That is what Woodburn’s Aesthetic Advisory Panel for the Interstate 5 Interchange Project wants motorists to envision two or three years from now as they roll through the newly rebuilt Woodburn interchange.
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5/4/2012 9:31:14 AM
Growing up in Sinaloa, Mexico, Beatriz Guerrero always knew she had something special that none of her siblings had: U.S. citizenship.
Guerrero was born in Portland while her father was briefly employed in the area but spent her childhood in Mexico.
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