Category Education

Creswell needs safer routes to school

Next week we again become witness to that parade of idling cars in front of schools as parents line up, drop off and pick up their kids to and fro school each weekday. In the 1970s, nearly half the kids in America walked or rode…

School board implements recommended actions

Creswell School Board was called together in executive session on Monday, Aug. 27 at 6 p.m. to address complaints or charges brought against a public officer, employee, staff member or agent. One of the respondents of the complaint and his attorney were also in attendance.…

School board adopts 2018-19 resolutions

The Creswell School Board unanimously voted to approve the 2018-19 board and annual resolutions during their regularly scheduled meeting on Aug 8. The adopted resolutions provided that Superintendent Todd Hamilton is the designated chief administrative officer, appointed district spokesperson, civil rights official and budget officer…

Kids create rockets

CHRISTOPHER PALANUK/THE CRESWELL CHRONICLE Camilla (middle) and Alejo affix their rockets to the PVC launchpads while Olivia waits her turn during the Stomp Rockets activity in the Creswell Library’s backyard on Aug. 8.

New drone class sparks more educational opportunities

Creswell Middle School will add a class about drones and flight science as part of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program. This fall, Creswell Middle School will add a class about drones and flight science as part of the science, technology, engineering and…

School Board to hire attorney

Creswell School Board was called together in executive session on Monday, Aug. 13 at 6 p.m. to address complaints or charges brought against a public officer, employee, staff member or agent. The complainant and those the complaint were lodged against were also in attendance. After…

Kids learn the physics of sound

CHRISTOPHER PALANUK/THE CRESWELL CHRONICLE Alex stamps plunger heads on the table to the rhythm of a horse’s gallop, as he attempts to mimic the sound during the Physics of Sound activity presented by Eugene Science Center on July 25 during the Creswell Library Summer Reading…

School Board to hire third party investigator

Creswell School Board was called together in executive session on Friday, July 20 at 6 p.m. to address complaints or charges brought against a public officer, employee, staff member or agent. After open session reconveined, Director Natalie Smathers made the motion to hire a third-party…