MEDICAL LAKE — The school board celebrated the end of the 2020-21 school year at their June 22 meeting. Members reminisced about a successful last week of school and graduation ceremony in a year defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. In true pandemic fashion, the school received a half million sanitizing wipes that were supposed to arrive in October just in time for school to let out.

The board heard two new policies for the first time. The first one applies to non-resident students and the lengthy appeals process that follows a rejection. The new policy allows a parent’s appeal to go strai...