Drug Take Back Event Collects 3,678 Pounds of Pills
On Saturday, 1,373 Clark, Skamania, and Klickitat County residents dropped off a total of 3,678 pounds of unused and unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medications with local law enforcement officers, pharmacists, coalition staff and community volunteers. The medication disposal event was [...]
Woodland High School’s Floriculture Team places eighth in national FFA competition
Woodland High School’s Floriculture Team placed eighth in the nation, representing Washington State at the National FFA Convention held in Indianapolis, Indiana. Woodland’s team earned the privilege of representing Washington following competitions at the local and state levels against teams [...]
Battle Ground High School Stripes Program Keeps Freshmen on Path to Success
For some students, the transition from middle to high school is an intimidating step along the pathway to adulthood. Compounding the pressure is the fact that a student’s freshman year is crucial to achieving success in high school and beyond. [...]
Lyle Community School’s Pre-Kindergarten Program achieves high quality rating
Lyle Community School’s Pre-Kindergarten Program has been notified by the Washington State Department of Early Learning that it has received a Level 4 rating, defined as providing a program that is “thriving in high quality.” On a scale of 1-5, [...]
Harry Potter room casts a spell on Ridgefield students
Above the Media Center at Sunset Ridge Intermediate School/View Ridge Middle School in the Ridgefield School District, there is a small, private room. Step through the door, and it is as if you have been transported to Hogwarts, the school [...]
Lyle High School students honor Indigenous People’s Day
In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, members of Lyle High School’s Culture Club made a presentation to six different classes on Monday, October 8. Representing the local Warm Springs and Yakama tribes, as well as Southeast Alaska Tlingit, Ojibwa/First Nation [...]
Woodland A.P. Government students learn about U.S. political system at the local level
Sharon “Shari” Conditt, a social studies teacher at Woodland High School, invites visiting professionals to present to her classes and uses field trips to provide students in her Advanced Placement (AP) Government class with a variety of enriching opportunities in [...]
Longtime educator, Bob Lucas, leaves Kelso School Board
The community of Kelso has big shoes to fill on its school board after the September resignation of Bob Lucas, who for the past seven years has helped inform and guide the direction of the Kelso School District as Vice President [...]
STEM Network’s pilot program answers need for trained manufacturing workforce
With a growing population of young people, Southwest Washington’s many STEM-related industries—those in science, technology, engineering and mathematics—would seem well positioned for hiring a strong workforce. But there is a problem: Up to 81 percent of new, high-growth, well-paying jobs [...]
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