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PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK
Former Silverton teachers win grievance
agreement calls for the district to recall letters of repri
mand it sent to the state agency that credentials
teachers, and to issue them neutral letters of recom
mendation.
An arbitrator ruled the district was “engaging in a
pattern of retaliation and reprisal” against the pair
when they filed grievances during the 201718 school
year.
“Having all of this legally documented with evi
dence from district administrators’ emails and their
own testimony is a tremendous win for teachers and
unions across the United States,” HynesStone said.
Christena Brooks
Special to Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
SILVERTON – A fight between high school teachers
and administrators that began over low grades and
plagiarism in a collegelevel writing course has ended
with a finding against the school district and a settle
ment agreement.
Former Silverton High School teachers Ben Hynes
Stone and Travis Woodside won’t get money from the
Silver Falls School District. Rather, the settlement
GRADUATION 2019
Students graduated from six Silvertonarea high schools earlier this month, celebrating with
cheers, tears, hugs and a turning of tassels. For more photos and a list of graduates, see Page 1B
Grading
HynesStone and Woodside came to the Silver Falls
School District in 2014 and 2015, respectively. They be
gan the 201718 school year as coteachers of an ad
vanced writing course for “highly motivated and capa
ble students” wanting to earn college credit, according
to their complaint filed with Oregon’s Employment Re
lation Board last winter.
Not long after classes began, students and parents
See TEACHERS, Page 2A
Joe Kast selected
as next Marion
County sheriff
Bill Poehler
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Salem Statesman Journal
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Graduates line up during the Silverton High School commencement at Silverton High School on June 6,
2019. MICHAELA ROMÇN / STATESMAN JOURNAL
Freres donates $1 million to stop business tax
Bill Poehler
Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
Freres Lumber president Rob Freres has donated $1
million to a group trying to send a recently signed tax
on big businesses to Oregon voters, according to rec
ords from the Oregon Secretary of State's office.
Freres gave the money to the Defeat the Tax on
Oregon Sales Now committee, which now has a bal
ance of $1,000,730.
Freres publicly exited his role on the board of Ore
gon Business & Industry, a lobbying group, in May
over the group not opposing House Bill 3427.
The bill, which was signed into law by Governor
Kate Brown May 24, increases taxes on businesses
with annual sales over $1 million by charging a 0.57%
sales tax on transactions.
It is estimated to bring in more than $1 billion over
the next two years, money targeted for schools.
Freres helped start Oregon Manufacturers and
Commerce, a separate business group, a year ago.
Defeat the Tax on Oregon Sales Now must gather
about 75,000 signatures within 90 days of the conclu
sion of the current legislative session to put the mea
sure to voters.
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The Marion County Commissioners agreed Thurs
day to hire Joe Kast as Marion County Sheriff to re
place the retiring Jason Myers.
They will make the appointment of Kast, currently
a commander in the Marion County Sheriff ’s office,
official at the June 26 commissioner’s meeting, and
he will start the position July 1.
Kast will serve in the sheriff position through
2020, when it will go up for election.
“People have huge respect for him,” Marion Coun
ty Commissioner Kevin Cameron said. “I think Com
mander Kast would hit the ground running.”
Kast has been with the Marion
County Sheriff ’s Office for 23 years in
five different positions and previously
spent three years with the Bibb Coun
ty Sheriff ’s Office in Georgia.
The Marion County Sheriff ’s Office
serves a population of 344,035, in
Kast
cluding 98,931 in rural areas or unin
corporated cities, and contracts with
the cities of Aurora, Jefferson, Sublimity and Chema
wa Indian School.
The department covers 1,182 square miles with an
annual budget of $71.5 million and 357 fulltime
equivalent employees.
The Marion County Sheriff ’s Office is one of seven
departments in the county headed by elected offi
cials.
“I’m really looking forward to it,” Kast said. “I’m
looking forward to working with everyone in the of
fice doing the good things we’ve been doing.”
Myers will retire from the position June 30 to take
a position with the Oregon State Sheriff ’s Associa
tion. He was elected to his third fouryear term in
January and announced his impending retirement
days later.
Kast said he will run for the position in the next
election and said he already has a campaign man
ager.
The person who wins that election will serve a
fouryear term.
Kast and Josh Brooks, a lieutenant with the Ore
gon State Police Department from Sublimity, were
the two applicants for the appointment.
“I really like some of his ideas,” Marion County
Commissioner Colm Willis said of Brooks. “He
brought fresh ideas.”
“I came away thinking Commander Kast had more
specific knowledge of the sheriff ’s office.”
In his letter of resignation, Myers endorsed Kast
for the position.
The commissioners indicated one of the reasons
See KAST, Page 2A
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