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While many staff members have been enjoying their summer break, Medical Lake central administrators like Superintendent Tim Ames and Chad Moss, director of finance, have been involved in getting things in line for 2018-19. For Ames, that has meant...

Registration for kindergarteners and new elementary students in the Cheney School District began Monday, Aug. 13, at all local elementary schools. Registering students before school starts is convenient for parents and for the school district, said S...

In accordance with state law, the Cheney school district will be destroying past students’ special education records unless they hear from the child’s parent or guardian by Sept. 30. Under state and federal law, special education records must be...

Cheney Public Schools announced in an Aug. 2 news release that Dr. Robin Andrus has been selected as the new Director Of Student Support Services. Andrus was selected for the assistant director position in June after an extensive interview process,...

The Medical Lake School Board heard and approved in unanimous fashion its operating budget for the 2018-19 school year at a special meeting prior to its regular July 24 meeting. Chad Moss, director of finance, prepared a detailed budget document...

The Cheney School Board officially adopted the district’s largest budget in its history at its June 27 regular meeting —a document that comes up just shy of $64.1 million in general fund revenues while slightly exceeding $64 million in general...

On June 18, 2018, Robert “Robbie” Cook, a 2013 graduate of Cheney High School and 2016 graduate of Washington State University, was awarded a master of business administration degree from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of...

Medical Lake High School has released its 2017-2018 second semester honor roll. Students making the honor roll are listed by last name first as follows: Freshmen Bridges, Cheyenne Deitschman, Breanna Earley, Natalee Eberhardt, Mayah Harper, Anne...

Medical Lake High School has released its 2017-2018 second semester Principal’s honor roll. Freshmen Acord, Ellie Beecher, Jessica Bode, Rachel Brown, Violet Cain, Kaycee Castro, Kyler Cook, Chloe Davis, Ethan Dickey, Cameron Dyess, Preston...

Expansion and renovation work at Cheney High School is one step closer to beginning, thanks to the approval by the school district’s board of directors of a resolution accepting a constructability review report. The review was based upon architect...

Eastern Washington University associate professor Gina Mikel Petrie, Ph.D., has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for a six-week English Language Specialist assignment in Amman, Jordan. The English Language Specialist Program is the...

The Washington state Future Farmers of America Association announced in a June 14 news release that Cheney High School’s agriculture education teacher and FFA advisor Allen Skoog had been awarded a $27,000 grant from the association. The funding...

The Cheney School District’s 2018-2019 general fund budget is scheduled to top $60 million for the first time ever — and that’s just the beginning. During a budget workshop at the school board’s June 13 meeting, Finance Director Jamie...

Cheney High School alum Amy Anderson was one of over 1,000 graduates receiving diplomas at Western Oregon University commencement exercises on June 16 in Monmouth, Ore. Anderson graduated magna cum laude (3.65-3.79 grade point average) with a...

Cheney School District officials and corporate partners Lydig Construction, ALSC Architects and OAC (the district’s construction and project management firm), are holding a groundbreaking ceremony at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 27, for the Cheney...