The two semi-finalists from which the next Oregon State University president will emerge — Charles R. Martinez and Jayathi Y. Murthy — visited the Corvallis campus Monday and Tuesday this week to meet community members and answer questions about how they would lead if selected.

In response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting that killed 19 elementary school-aged children and two teachers, Greater Albany Public Schools had a heightened police presence on Wednesday, May 25

The multimillion-dollar facility opened last year and has become a power venue for all sorts of events, for local schools and otherwise.

Mark Henderson has been selected as the new principal of Philomath High School, succeeding interim-principal Brent Belveal. Henderson will begin his position with the district July 1.

In unofficial election results, voters in Linn and Benton counties appeared to have renewed the five-year local-option levy for the Corvallis School District.

The students at Kathryn Jones Harrison Elementary School in Corvallis — once known as Jefferson then Jaguar Elementary — received a special visit Thursday afternoon: Kathryn Jones Harrison herself, who laid eyes upon the school for the first time.

Third-graders from Garfield Elementary School in Corvallis spent a rainy Thursday morning at Bald Hill Farms, learning hands-on about migratory birds and species they share with their partner schools in Mexico.

In unofficial election results, voters appeared to have passed the $16 million Linn-Benton Community College bond that will fund new construction projects. 

Students at Letitia Carson Elementary School got to learn about their school’s namesake from New York Times best-selling author Jane Kirkpatrick, who wrote a historical novel based on Carson’s life, “A Light in the Wilderness.”