How a small rural school district tangled with Oregon officials, netting huge fine
Bill Wortman, Adrian High School principal, said he has “reflected” and “learned” since the mask mandate controversy in the school district. (The Enterprise/FILE)
ADRIAN – On the first day of school in August, the Adrian school superintendent stopped himself from going in and headed back home.
“I forgot a mask,” then-Superintendent Kevin Purnell wrote to his staff in a welcoming note. “A little ironic.”
But masks have been more than an inconvenience in Adrian.
They…
