LEBANON — Organizers who want to establish a “microsociety” charter school in Oregon met Thursday with the Lebanon School Board to present their vision.

LEBANON — Lebanon High School Assistant Principal Kevin Bogatin has been tapped to become assistant superintendent for the Corvallis School District.

LEBANON — The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Santiam has hired a coordinator to help families of club members in Lebanon and Sweet Home enroll their children in the Oregon Health Plan.

Benton Furniture Share has changed its name to Furniture Share. The nonprofit initially served only Benton County residents, but expanded to provide services to families in Linn and surrounding counties in fiscal year 2006-07 and has goals of further expansion. It now serves as many clients in Linn County as it does in Benton.

Organizers of the annual SafeHaven Arts & Crafts Show, held Mother’s Day weekend at the Heritage Mall, are requesting donations of artwork. All proceeds will benefit SafeHaven Humane Society. Artwork may be dropped off at the Heritage Mall customer service desk for the four-day silent auction, or call Mike Blagg at (541) 936-0165 to have your artwork picked up.

Two new members will join the advisory board of the Central Albany Revitalization Area (CARA). The city council Wednesday confirmed the appointments of Mark  Spence and Charles Leland.

LEBANON — Seven Oak Middle School’s Safe Routes to School Committee will have a neighborhood meeting from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1, at the school, 550 Cascade Drive.

ALSEA — Corvallis police and Benton County sheriff’s deputies say they have broken up a marijuana-dealing ring and a dogfighting operation in two interrelated cases.

SWEET HOME — Hawthorne Elementary School is holding its second annual “Sixth Graders Vs. Staff” fundraiser basketball game Thursday, April 1, at Sweet Home Junior High.

Linn-Benton Community College will offer a series of cooking classes designed to teach participants how to prepare dishes from around the world. The series, “International Cooking,” will begin with Italian cooking on April 1 and includes seven classes that run through May 20. Other classes will cover dishes from France, April 8; Greece, April 22; Mexico, April 29; India, May 6; Africa, May 13; and Asia, May 20.

H&R Block will have a bake sale fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 20, at Bi-Mart, 2272 Santiam Highway S.E., Albany. All donations will go toward the Albany Relay for Life.

 

The Kidco Early Head Start Program is now taking applications for the following: pregnant and parenting teens in Sweet Home; Linn-Benton Community College students in Albany who are pregnant or parents of infants and toddlers; and unemployed pregnant women or unemployed parents of infants and toddlers in Corvallis. Every effort is made to offer services in the family’s primary language. When this is not possible, translators are provided.

EUGENE (AP) - Oregon athletic director Mike Bellotti is stepping down after less than a year in the position to take a job with ESPN.

Albany’s project to turn one block of Broadalbin Street into a “promenade,” a kind of a public plaza, now has the city council’s final OK.

The Sweet Home Genealogical Society will hold its 30th annual Genealogy Workshop starting at 9:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20, at the library building, 1223 Kalmia St.

People arrested are innocent unless proven otherwise in court. Initial charges often change as a case progresses.

Smile when you walk down that school hallway: You may be on camera.

Albany has received the first chunk of cash it agreed to accept to settle its lawsuit against a subsidiary of PepsiCo.

More than 400 Linn County residents took advantage of the state’s senior citizens and disabled citizens property tax deferral program in 2009, according to the Linn County Assessor’s Office.