HERMISTON -- Hermiston School District's annual musical festival is today.
The festival begins at 7 p.m. in the Hermiston High School gym, 600 S. First, Hermiston.
The event will showcase performances from the band and choir groups of the high school and Sandstone and Armand Larive middle schools.
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The Hermiston chapter of the service organization Altrusa is sponsoring a community read of The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone.
The organization distributed 500 copies of the book throughout the community.
Hermiston High School received 175 copies.
HERMISTON -- The Hermiston School Board this week approved $5 million worth of improvements for Hermiston High School's football and track facility.
Donors recently filled a $700,000 gap needed to get the project at Kennison Field moving. A ceremony is set for 4 p.m. Feb. 8 at the stadium, according to a news release.
Much of the project is being paid for by state and federal grants. Hundreds of thousands of dollars more were needed to upgrade the facility enough to qualify for state-level high school sporting events.
HERMISTON -- A truck with a sign referencing a presidential assassin has some passers-by upset.
KEPR TV said one woman described it as hate speech after seeing it at a store in Hermiston. The sign reads: "Lee Harvey Oswald where are you when we need u," the TV station reported.
Oswald fatally shot President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago this November.
The Hermiston School District will move forward with renovating Kennison Field at Hermiston High School after collecting more than $700,000 in donations.
A fundraising committee collected the money for four months to close a gap in the $4 million project's finances, according to a press release from the district.
The district wants to start construction in early February and complete it before the high school's first football game in the fall.
The Hermiston school district is immediately replacing a zombie-related curriculum used in an Armand Larive Middle School exploratory reading class, it announced.
The decision followed a story about the elective reading course earlier this week in the East Oregonian.
“The use of zombie-related materials is unfortunate and was not approved in accordance with district curricular policies,” said Superintendent Fred Maiocco in a statement.
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