Clemens leaves for Olympia

After 19 years in the Cheney School District, Dr. Deb Clemens will be serving another school on the west side of Washington state.

Clemens will be the new North Thurston Public Schools’ superintendent, replacing the retiring Raj Manhas, who had served the district since 2009.

According to a March 26 story in The Olympian, the North Thurston School Board voted unanimously to offer Clemens the job pending the acceptance of a mutually agreeable contract.

“Altogether, we believe that she was a very strong candidate,” North Thurston school board p resident Aaron Owada said in the story. “She has th...