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Updated 49 minutes ago

Calm under pressure

MOSES LAKE — Some Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center students saved a life Sept. 19. “We were there volunte…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
MLSD hands out meals for kids

MOSES LAKE — They gathered outside seven elementary schools across the Moses Lake School District, with school buses carrying plastic crates full of sack lunch…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Sex ed legislation prompts local school districts to write governor

GRANT AND ADAMS COUNTIES — Last week, three local school districts discussed the sexual education legislation that passed the Washington state legislature and …

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Preliminary plans for closure given to Othello School Board

OTHELLO — Othello School District officials haven’t announced yet how they plan to conduct school during an emergency shutdown ordered by Gov. Jay Inslee, but it won’t be online.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Wahluke robotics team qualifies for world competition

MATTAWA — A robotics team from Wahluke High School has qualified for the world robotics competition in Louisville, Kentucky, that was originally set for the en…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Royal School District receives audit finding

ROYAL CITY — The Royal School District has received a finding from the Washington State Auditor’s office. According to the report published by the auditor’s office on March 5, the district failed to have adequate c…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Area schools finalize plans as they close their doors

School districts across the county are finalizing their plans in the face of a statewide closure of all K-12 schools, including private and charter schools, beginning today until at least April 24.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Big Bend CC takes courses online due to COVID-19

MOSES LAKE — Facing a Friday announcement from Gov. Jay Inslee that all public and private colleges, universities and technical programs in the state are barred from conducting in-person classes, Big Bend Community…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
MLSD plans for online learning if ordered to close

MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake School District is working on plans to teach students online in the event the district is forced to close as a result of the COVID-19 o…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Schools canceling indoor events, limiting access in response to COVID-19

As of now, schools staying open for classes

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Moses Lake High School class in the chicken business

Goal is to make project self-sustaining operation

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Quincy schools announce steps against COVID-19 spread

QUINCY — Quincy School District is asking students and community members with symptoms of the coronavirus to stay out of school buildings and is canceling or postponing a number of large indoor events, but will not…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Moses Lake High School students lend a hand on Dr. Seuss Day

MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake High School student and FFA chapter member Parker Visker said Dr. Seuss Day was a sign of how things had changed since he was young.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Skills center sale designed to teach money management

Students also learned about marketing, customer service

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Royal School District visits Ron Clark Academy

ROYAL CITY — Last month, 17 Royal School District staff members went to visit the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, during a rescheduled regular board mee…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Wahluke School Board leases field to Wahluke Enrichment Organization

MATTAWA — The Wahluke School Board approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Wahluke Enrichment Organization (WEO), allowing the WEO to lease a 25-acre field from the Wahluke School District. The approv…