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Applicants sought for Moses Lake School Board seat
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake School District is accepting applications to fill a vacant seat on the school board fo…
COVID-19 drives school budget uncertainty
MOSES LAKE — Uncertainty as to just how many students will be back to school this fall means the Moses Lake School District will likely have to make some very conservative assumptions in its 2020-21 school year bud…
As next school year looms, MLSD wrangles with reopening safely
MOSES LAKE — Though the Moses Lake School District is still in the process of finalizing a plan to safely start the new school year in late August, one thing i…
Start of fall prep sports pushed
RENTON — High school sports in the fall will not start on time this season.
School districts adjust to McCleary Fix
SOUTH COUNTY — State legislators passed the McCleary Fix last February, a bill that limits the amount of money school districts can ask for at levy time.
Othello superintendent’s contract extended
OTHELLO — Othello School Board members extended the contract of superintendent Chris Hurst through 2023. The contract was approved by the board in a 5-0 vote at the June 22 board meeting.
District leaders hope for ‘normal’ return to school
MOSES LAKE — Officials with Moses Lake School District are working to make sure school restarts next fall in “as normal conditions as possible,” though no one knows yet if there will be fall sports such as football.
Warden High School celebration set
WARDEN — Warden High School has set the date for its graduation event.
Construction begins on new elementary school
MOSES LAKE — With eight golden shovels tossing a little dirt Thursday morning, construction of Vicki I. Groff Elementary School — the 11th elementary school in…
Wahluke High School Class of 2020 graduates with car parade
MATTAWA — It might not have been the way students of the Wahluke High School Class of 2020 thought they would graduate, but they went out in style Friday night…
Parade sends fifth-graders off in style
MOSES LAKE — Fifth-graders at Park Orchard Elementary School went off to sixth grade in style with a car parade through the parking lot Monday night, with thei…
Quincy grads parade their way to the finish line
QUINCY — The line of cars went on for more than a mile and several city blocks, as Quincy High School seniors waited in the late spring heat to collect their d…
Royal High School honors 2020 graduates with parade, ceremony, fireworks
ROYAL CITY — The ceremony was different, but the emotions were still high as the 2020 graduating class crossed the stage at David Nielsen Memorial Field outsid…
Graduates in Ephrata celebrate, ‘make history’
EPHRATA — It was a strange end to a strange school year.
Royal City student excels at Global Amazing Shake
ROYAL CITY — Five sixth-grade students from Royal Intermediate School competed in the Global Amazing Shake in May, and one of them, Logan Piper, placed seventh overall.
Graduation season begins in Basin
GRANT COUNTY — Graduation season in the Columbia Basin starts this weekend.