Spokane residents can give their input for school names at the SPS board meeting Wednesday night. Author: Grace Arnis (KREM) Updated: 10:57 AM PDT May 12, 2021
SPOKANE, Wash. This is the first time four schools will be named at the same time. On Wednesday, SPS will hold
a meeting at 7 p.m. to ask for more public input on the finalists. Guests will be able to give their opinion at the meeting. The school board will then make a decision by May 26.
Community input has led to the nine finalists of three new Spokane middle school names. There are also suggestions to rename another school in Spokane.
Racist restrictions in old home deeds across Washington will get expanded scrutiny By Heidi Groover, The Seattle Times
Published: May 10, 2021, 6:00am
Share: Larry Gossett, a former King County Council member, says his father was told he could not buy a house in West Seattle because of his race. Gossett is shown during his election night gathering at Emerald Community Church in Seattle. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times/TNS)
SEATTLE Marlene Smick remembers sitting in the back seat of her parents’ car in 1958 as the family spotted an open house sign in Seward Park. Smick’s father, a second-generation Japanese-American who had been incarcerated during World War II, rolled down the window to ask about the property.
50 years ago, election ushered in new era for US tribes
May 10, 2021
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In this Dec 4, 2016, file photo, Dan Nanamkin, of the Colville Nez Perce Native American tribe in Nespelem, Wash., right, drums with a procession through the Oceti Sakowin camp after it was announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won’t grant easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
By Mark Trahant
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fifty years ago this week the federal government’s experiment with termination was crushed at the ballot box on the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state.
Unlike recent announcements from WSU, UW, PLU, Western WA U, CWU and some other universities, Eastern Washington University in Cheney will not require students to be vaccinated.
More specifically, the University is not making it a requirement have proof of being vaccinated to attend in-person classes or live on campus. Eastern’s leadership team is considering easing some restrictions for students who are vaccinated and there may be areas of campus and some activities where a vaccination requirement is implemented.
But the university feels at this time it is up to each of us to take the necessary steps for a healthy and safe return.
Family ties pull Olympic gold medalist back to Maine
Anna Goodale, a mother of two young boys, left a demanding coaching job at Ohio State for an opportunity to run the community-based rowing club in her hometown of Camden.
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Olympic gold medalist Anna Goodale and her 4-year-old son, Owen, are shown at Megunticook Lake in Camden, where Goodale has been executive director and head coach of the Megunticook Rowing Club for the last 18 months.
Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
CAMDEN The wind was whipping across Megunticook Lake on a recent afternoon, creating white caps that would make it difficult for anyone to row a boat, let alone for teenagers simply learning how to climb into the boat.