Spokesman Nick Shanmac said the Listen Center’s creation “really stemmed from a desire to continually look for better ways to connect with our families and community members.”
Members of the Lower Columbia College Fighting Smelt Speech & Debate Team finished second place in the Division III team sweepstakes at the 91st Annual Mahaffey Memorial Forensics Tournament hosted by Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore.
The gift was part of nearly $200,000 in donations to five local nonprofits the Tribe made at ilani’s annual holiday tree-lighting event Nov. 24.
The proposed replacement levy is meant to maintain the current tax rate of $1.98 per $1,000 of assessed property value. For the owner of a $250,000 house, that would be about $495 a year for this levy.
Students and community members participated in a food drive the week prior, bringing in 4,703 items, administrative assistant Claudia Broschat said. Bethany Lutheran Church and Palmer Glass also donated turkey dinners and cooked hams, and the Lexington Mini Mart put a donation box inside the store.
The Kelso School District is bringing back the two bus routes it canceled in early October, so about 100 Kelso kids at Butler Acres Elementary School, Coweeman Middle School and Kelso High School once again can ride the bus to school.
"It really opened my eyes and made me see that WSOS believed in me and I really can accomplish things I set my mind to,” recipient Anthony Garay said.
The survey results of 300 randomly selected community members were presented at Monday night’s board meeting. The telephone survey was done by Portland-based Riley Research Associates.
The application process opened in mid-October and was set to close Nov. 5, but is now open until more applications come in. Applications can be found online on the district website and on paper at all elementary schools.
The program allows unvaccinated students identified as close contacts at school to continue to learn in-person while monitoring for COVID-19 symptoms, including at least two tests over a seven-day period.
Jaida, 17, started running cross country in eighth grade because the coach was her favorite teacher. She planned to quit when she reached high school, she said, because she had cerebral palsy that affects her vision and motor skills.
The capital projects budget for 2022 has multiple big-ticket projects on it, including about $3.4 million for the port’s broadband fiber project and $5.6 million for Rose Way Industrial Park buildings. The total expenditures are budgeted at $11 million, while revenues are projected to be $9.…
Kelso school construction is on track with Butler Acres Elementary School wrapping up and the Huntington Middle School modernization taking shape.
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The four new choices put forward by the Toledo High School Art Committee all include the head of a hawk in profile around the district's current stylized red ‘T’ in a circle. They range from abstracted to realistic.
At Monday’s meeting, the board discussed Vice Chair Kari Hollander’s remote participation in meetings since July and if that counted as attendance after getting multiple community complaints about it.
Longview classified school staff told the school board Monday the current worker shortage will only get worse if the district does not increases wages.
The district said that all schools except Yale Elementary and Woodland Child Care will operate on their two-hour late-start schedule this Friday, due to a shortage of available bus drivers.
Students in the leadership group at Huntington Middle School are writing thank you cards, painting rocks and making a display of local names on the school's front window this year in advance of Veteran's Day Thursday.
The Kelso slowpitch softball team was on the road Oct. 30, coming home from Yakima after taking second place in the state tournament, when they pulled off the road for a quick break and saw a couple locked out of their truck in the freezing weather.
State Superintendent Chris Reykdal said he had expect school staff exemptions rates to be higher than the average for state workers, which was about 3% granted, and he expected rural districts to be higher than urban exemption rates.
The Kelso and Castle Rock school boards have been recognized by the Washington State School Directors’ Association as 2021 “Boards of Distinction.”
“Our program is a hidden gem in this town that we are all proud of,” kindergarten teacher Jill Thoeny said.
Set to be on the April 26 ballot and take effect in 2023, the proposed levy would increase the current rate from 51 cents per $1,000 of assessed value in 2021 to an estimated 88 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value in 2023.
Lower Columbia College Fighting Smelt Speech and Debate Team takes second place at Steve Hunt Classi
Members of the Lower Columbia College Fighting Smelt Speech and Debate Team won second place in two-year college team sweepstakes out of a field of 11 community colleges at the Steve Hunt Classic Tournament hosted by Lewis and Clark and Whitman colleges the weekend of Oct. 9.
According to the district, the Hiland Fling is one of the oldest forms of dance in Scotland and requires both athletic and artistic skill. Originally a war dance performed after a victorious battle, around 1950 Kelso High School cheerleaders started to perform it at Homecoming.