The Pioneer does a Q&A with finalists Jay Mathisen, Dan Koopman and Jeffry Davis
Jefferson County School District 509-J Board members have selected their top three candidates for the superintendent position. Two candidates are leaders at Oregon colleges, and the third is from a Washington school district.
This week, the board of directors will begin conducting final candidate interviews with three superintendent finalists, Jay Mathisen, Dan Koopman and Jeffry Davis.
The district will host three public events for the community to meet the candidates. The first event is Tuesday evening, March 2 with Mathisen. A second event will be Wednesday evening, March 3 for the public to meet Koopman, and the final event is Thursday evening, March 4 for the community to meet Davis.
Jefferson County School Board set to interview 3 superintendent finalists
Public invited to take part in next week s interviews
MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) The Jefferson County School District 509J Board of Directors will be conducting interviews next week with three finalists to become the next superintendent.
The interviews will take place on the evenings of Tuesday, March 2, Wednesday March 3 and Thursday, March 4.
The new superintendent will succeed Ken Pershall, who announced last fall his plans to retire as of June 30.
Opportunities to meet each candidate will be held at the Performing Arts Center, 412 Buff Street in Madras, from 7-8 p.m. on each of the three evenings. Candidate evening meetings will be open to the public and available via YouTube stream to accommodate more of the community for viewing, due to capacity seating due to COVID. Limited seating in the PAC will be on a first-come, first-serve basis and in compliance with current COVID restrictions.
Originally published on February 1, 2021 3:41 pm
Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission and the Oregon Department of Corrections have entered into a new agreement to continue providing inmates with educational programming through community colleges across the state.
This comes after uncertainty last October when the Oregon DOC said it would be cutting ties with the six community colleges it contracts with. ODOC said at the time that was a move to bring its adult education programming in-house. Corrections officials had said it would help address the agency’s budget shortfall and an inconsistency of services they said the department was receiving through the current contracts.
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The planet is pretty well wired to warn us of earthquakes these days. Microphones on the ocean floor are among the many devices that can detect the rumblings of the Earth, long before people become aware of them.
Microphones do have multiple uses, though, and at least some seismologists advocate using them to listen to sea creatures. Include
Dr. William Wilcock at the University of Washington in that group.
He shares his thoughts on Whale Seismology in an online lecture hosted by Southwestern Oregon Community College (Tuesday January 26th, 7 PM). We get a crash course in the principles of whale seismology.
COOS COUNTY â âI donât know if it was my second mid-life crisis or not, but I always wanted to get a Harley-Davidson,â James Fritz laughed as he looked back on how he tackled pandemic restrictions. Though he made jokes about chasing a dream he held since he was a child, the activity has strengthened the bond he has with his son.
Fritz has always been close with his 16-year-old son, Roman, who attends North Bend High School. A two-season athlete who participates in 4-H, Fritz said that Romanâs life changed drastically â like everyoneâs â when the pandemic shut everything down.