While the Oregon Department of Education is celebrating the overall statewide graduation rate for the 2022-23 school year remaining tied for its second highest rate ever, Polk County school officials
Superintendent Jennifer Kubista gathered with Central High School staff during their weekly meeting on Jan. 10, to announce that Dale Pedersen had accepted a permanent appointment as principal.
Aquinas Consulting, a Milford-based recruitment firm that focuses on staffing IT and engineering positions, is getting more business because of a nationwide labor shortage.
But the company is also having trouble absorbing the work, because it’s short-staffed.
“In the last six months, companies have been trying to get work done and they are having real difficulty in finding workers,” said Aquinas President Thomas Mercaldo.
A provincial court judge is set to rule on whether a Knutsford rancher willfully or neglectfully caused pain or suffering to her Great Danes and cats.
Lawyers made their final arguments Tuesday in the animal cruelty trial of Carol Haughton, which began two years ago. The dog breeder was charged in 2009 with three counts under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act after a 2009 SPCA visit to her property.
With Haughton temporarily absent, tending to her Alberta farm, the investigation found animals living in deplorable conditions. An SPCA special constable and a veterinarian seized the animals based on conditions they determined to be far short of professional kennel standards.