EAST WENATCHEE — Homeschooling families are invited to find out more about Eastmont’s new hybrid partnership program at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Sterling Intermediate School library, 600 N. James Ave.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley College campus fountain will turn into a fishing pond Wednesday for the annual Fountain Fishing Derby, sponsored by the WVC Student Senate.
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LEAVENWORTH — The community is invited to Tuesday’s dedication of the new and improved Cascade High School, a $25 million expansion and remodel project that got started in earnest about two years ago.
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WENATCHEE — A round of testing for lead in drinking water is keeping plumbers busy in the Wenatchee School District.
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WENATCHEE — New double-door vestibules designed to make Wenatchee schools safer will take another year.
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WENATCHEE — Five-year-old Maverick looked at the collection of mounted insects with curiosity, pointing out wasps to his parents.
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WENATCHEE — Parents and staff at Washington Elementary School and the Early Childhood Learning Center used to parking on the street might have to come up with a new plan next year.
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WENATCHEE — Bids are expected to go out next week for the first phase of the Wenatchee Public Library’s year-long $2.5 million remodel.
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PLAIN — In December 2012 a winter storm slammed the Upper Valley, leaving a trail of destruction.
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WENATCHEE — On June 7 last year, Anthony Wilson, an 18-year-old Eastmont High School student, died in a motorcycle crash on Colockum Road.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Twenty new certified lead-free water fixtures installed this spring in four Eastmont schools are living up to their promises, according to the latest test results.
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WENATCHEE — The city’s youth track and field recreation program runs from Monday through June 15.
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WENATCHEE — A retired Chelan elementary school teacher pleaded not guilty to accusations that he molested a former student.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Julie Stimpson-Lewis, a 1976 Eastmont High School grad, HIV survivor and founder of the 30/30 Project, is the Eastmont Foundation’s Distinguished Alumnus for 2019.
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I have great admiration for those with the inner sense peace to take life as it comes and accept the disasters and foibles with as much grace and dignity as successes. They are truly the happiest and most content people on earth.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee School Board fielded a recommendation Tuesday to put a technology levy on the November ballot that would raise about $4 million a year for six years.
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WENATCHEE — There wasn’t much noise in the dim Wenatchee classroom Tuesday evening, considering how many people were talking.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont School District has received the State Auditor’s Stewardship Award (SASA) for “dedication to making government work better.”
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EAST WENATCHEE — Maybe a month will make a difference.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee School Board will take a close look Friday at how decisions made in Olympia this spring will impact the district’s balance sheet in the coming year.
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Laura Fox, driver trainer for the Wenachee School District Transportation Department, teaches new driver Maribel Davidson techniques of backing up a bus Friday, May 10, 2019, at Triangle Park. Davidson was preparing for a driving test with Fox's help.
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WENATCHEE — Karina Vega-Villa, appointed to the Wenatchee School Board in January, will run in the fall election to keep her seat.
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WENATCHEE — Sunny Hemphill will have a challenger when she runs for re-election to the Wenatchee School Board this fall.
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WENATCHEE — It took a pending demolition, but students at Wenatchee Valley College are getting to paint on a school building.
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While Wenatchee River Institute (WRI) in Leavenworth has hundreds of local elementary visitors each year, there has been less collaboration with high school students.
WENATCHEE — A $75,000 donation from Dennis and Beth Dobbs and the Names Family Foundation helped pay for newly remodeled women’s locker rooms in Wenatchee Valley College’s Smith Gym.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley College Foundation will present three awards and laud two heroes at this year’s annual gala set for May 18 at the Wenatchee Convention Center.
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WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley College Foundation’s newly titled executive director has a familiar face.
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CHELAN — Voters in the Lake Chelan School District soundly rejected at $75.5 million bond proposal at the polls Tuesday, with a 57-percent “no” vote.
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PATEROS — Pateros Elementary School students will get a break from the winter weather soon.
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WENATCHEE — Jill Fineis, who has been a science coordinator for the Wenatchee School District since 2012, has been hired as the founding principal of the valley’s first charter public school.
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OLYMPIA — A bill that would expand access to career and technical courses now heads to Gov. Jay Inslee's desk.
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LEAVENWORTH — Disagreement over facts and interpretations. Blurred lines between facts and opinions. Increased influence of opinion and personal experience over facts. Decreased trust in previously respected sources.
EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont School District is donating a strip of land along 10th Street N.E. to help a road reconstruction project move forward.
WENATCHEE — The search is on for a nonprofit group interested in running the daycare center on the WestSide High School campus starting this fall.
WENATCHEE — His “Golden Ticket” idea is the ticket that will get Alex Anguiano, 11, Wenatchee, into the Seattle Mariners baseball game on April 26.
Ginny Kinnebrew, a parent coordinator for the John Newbery Elementary School PTA, gets dressed in her dinosaur costume between cars in the parking lot at the school last Friday. She made her entrance soon after at the school's Fund Run, a fundraiser for the PTA.
WENATCHEE — Columbia Elementary School students spent time last week talking about what they had for dinner — or trying to talk about it.
OLYMPIA — The state Senate passed a bill Friday to give universities and colleges more flexibility in accepting students into education programs.
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee School District statistics measuring everything from student test scores and graduation rates to how many parents attend student conferences and the number of community volunteers are posted on the district’s website.
WENATCHEE — North Central Regional Library's Community Bookmobile will be out and about Wednesday for some special appearances in honor of National Bookmobile Day, part of National Library Week.
WENATCHEE — The 2019 Invent Wenatchee competition was held last month at Pybus Public Market's LocalTel Event Center.
WENATCHEE — Sunny Hemphill wants to continue serving on the Wenatchee School Board.
BRIDGEPORT — Bridgeport School District is looking for kindergarten students for the 2019-20 school year.
CASHMERE — Registration for the Cashmere School District’s 2019 kindergarten and pre-school is open.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee and Cashmere school districts are seeking young people from birth to age 21 not enrolled in school who may need special education services.
LAKE WENATCHEE — Forty middle school students from across the region will showcase science and technology skills they learned during spring break at a Student Expo Saturday at the Lake Wenatchee YMCA Camp.
WENATCHEE — Trial stemming from a lawsuit filed against the Wenatchee School District by parents of students assaulted on a bus during a 2014 football trip has been continued to 2020.
EAST WENATCHEE — The teachers are coming ...