Coffenberry Middle School in Myrtle Creek was put on lockdown Thursday morning by 9:15 a.m. for a bomb threat and it was lifted by by 12:34 p.m. according to Andy Johnson who is the director of student achievement at South Umpqua School District.
Teachers at Yoncalla Elementary take daily attendance by greeting students at the door of their classroom. Some students like to give their teacher a high five, others like a fist bump.
Students from the Boys & Girls Club of the Umpqua Valley have been getting artistic lately thanks to help from some local artists.
On a hot July day this past summer, our family of five loaded up our minivan to the brim with what we would need for a week to attend Camp Attitude.
Characters fly around in Emily Lazur’s head all day as she teaches her students at Hucrest Elementary and her children at home. This year, she decided to get the ideas out of her head and onto paper.
FFA teams from Sutherlin and Oakland were in Indianapolis this week, competing in the 91st National FFA Convention and Expo that ended Friday.
He still has boxes to unpack in his office and years’ worth of paperwork to sort through, but Thomas McGregor, the new director of Phoenix School, isn’t letting that stop him from moving forward with big plans for the Roseburg campus.
Madaline Snyder, 10, is quiet most of the time. But she opens up when she talks about the kitchen where she cooks for her family and bakes with her grandma.
Recently, Douglas County FFA students competed in a soils evaluation competition at the district and state levels. The district competition was hosted by Douglas High School in Winston, Tuesday, Oct. 2, and the state competition was held in La Grande, Monday, Oct. 15.
Zoey Ralston of Roseburg, a 2018 Roseburg High School graduate, was this year’s recipient of a scholarship sponsored by the RHS Class of 1952.
Seeing an opportunity to care for each student, Fremont Middle School Principal Ben Bentea started a “mandatory” after-school tutoring program for seventh- and eighth-grade students failing math or language arts.
The Roseburg High School Marching Ensemble took first place Saturday at the Pride of the Northwest marching band competition in Grants Pass.
A delegation of five Ukrainian educators and their translators met with members of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians for lunch in the tribal council boardroom in Roseburg on Tuesday.
After a bullying incident on a Roseburg Public Schools bus on Sept. 10, Robert Freeman, interim school district superintendent, said administrators acted to ensure the safety and protection of all students involved.
Umpqua Community College's annual Early Childhood Care and Education Conference will be held Oct. 26 and 27 at the Danny Lang Teaching, Learning, and Event Center on the main UCC campus.
About 40 young children and teens gather at the Roseburg Salvation Army on Tuesday afternoons to take part in an array of after-school programs.
The Roseburg Public Schools board of directors appointed Lee Paterson as its interim superintendent during the regular board meeting on Wednesday.
