A listing of school board meetings scheduled for this week in Skagit County
Education
Skagit Valley College is inviting the public to take part in two community forums on the search for the school’s next president.
MOUNT VERNON — Carrying on a 26-year tradition, Skagit Valley College culinary arts students prepped Thanksgiving meals from scratch this week for 38 Skagit County families.
CONWAY — The Conway School Board approved two resolutions Monday night to put two replacement levies on the Feb. 8 special election ballot.
A listing of school board meetings scheduled for this week in Skagit County
ANACORTES — The Anacortes School District will ask voters in the district to approve two replacement levies.
A listing of school board meetings scheduled for this week in Skagit County
LA CONNER — The clouds parted and the sun shone Wednesday morning upon several hundred people gathered at La Conner High School for the rededication ceremony of the John K. Bob Memorial Totem Pole.
Voters in the Sedro-Woolley School District will decide on a replacement educational programs and operations (EPO) levy in the Feb. 8 special election.
Three public school boards in Skagit County are set to meet next week
Former Seattle Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette was in Skagit County on Friday to talk to kids and to help raise money for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit County.
Meredith McIlmoyle and Diana Farnsworth are leading in races for seats on the Anacortes School Board.
The Mount Vernon School Board will be the lone public school board in Skagit County to meet next week.
BURLINGTON — The Burlington-Edison School Board approved Monday sending two replacement levy proposals to voters in the February 2022 special election.
MOUNT VERNON — With music, dancing, piñatas and skulls made of sugar, Mount Vernon High School students on Wednesday celebrated Dia de los Muertos — Day of the Dead — in traditional style.
MOUNT VERNON — A mystery had been brewing at Centennial Elementary School. What was in the big, wrapped box outside the school library?
LA CONNER — The La Conner School District is looking for help in designing a new school logo.
Heading into this school year, half of Skagit County’s six public high schools had new principals.
A program focused on helping students take environmental actions within their own communities has expanded to Skagit County this year.
School board meetings scheduled for next week in Skagit County
CONCRETE — With COVID-19 case numbers remaining high in parts of Skagit County, Concrete Elementary School will on Wednesday close and shift to an online learning system.
EDISON — When students at Edison Elementary School are feeling upset, they now have a place to go to help center themselves.
The Anacortes and Mount Vernon school boards are scheduled to meet next week.
FIDALGO BAY — Holding up a jar filled with water and sand, students looked at roughly 400 tiny, white eggs floating inside — surf smelt at the very early stages of their lives.
MOUNT VERNON — Tom Keegan, whose first experience on the Skagit Valley College campus was as a student in the 1970s, will in August retire as the college’s president.
MOUNT VERNON — A Jefferson Elementary School teacher has been honored for finding innovative ways to teach her science students.
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — For students and teachers in the Sedro-Woolley School District, getting a library card is about as simple as walking through the doors of the Sedro-Woolley Library.
The Burlington-Edison, La Conner and Sedro-Woolley school boards are set to meet next week
CONCRETE — This school year, some students younger than ever are attending Concrete Elementary School.
Meetings this week of the local school boards.
The Anacortes School Board is set to have two new faces on it.
Sedro-Woolley School Board incumbent Enrique Lopez-Cisneros is looking to retain his seat in the Nov. 2 election against Brent Schiefelbein.
Longtime Burlington-Edison School Board member Roger Howard is facing off in the Nov. 2 election against former Burlington City Council member Tonya Bieche for the board’s District 2 seat.
Two first-time candidates are running against each other for a position on the Concrete School Board.
LA CONNER — Students and staff in the La Conner School District wore orange shirts and wristbands Thursday to remember the past, and look to the future.
MOUNT VERNON — Flora Perez-Lucatero’s dream is coming true.
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — A state-of-the-art boiler system is now heating Sedro-Woolley High School.
MOUNT VERNON — At lunchtime Thursday, Mount Vernon High School hosted something of a celebration.
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen visited the Sedro-Woolley School District on Wednesday to talk with Superintendent Miriam Mickelson about federal COVID-19 relief funds and a new federal grant benefitting the district.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some districts are holding their school board meetings electronically, while others are holding them in a combination of in person and online. For information, visit district websites.
MOUNT VERNON — U.S. Sen. Patty Murray visited Skagit Valley College on Tuesday to talk about the push to make community colleges free nationwide.
When planning lunches for the Sedro-Woolley School District’s recent summer school program, Food Services Director Allison Johnston didn’t know she would end up missing one of her planned key ingredients: apples.
MOUNT VERNON — Mount Vernon Christian School is unable to use two portable classrooms it installed in July to address growing enrollment because it lacks the required permits from the city of Mount Vernon.
BURLINGTON — After arriving Wednesday for her first day of school a few minutes before her classmates, Angelina Meza meticulously helped her teacher place lines on the floor 3 feet apart to encourage social distancing.
CONWAY — With COVID-19 still looming, the new school year started Monday in Skagit County.
MOUNT VERNON — When high school freshmen start school Wednesday in Mount Vernon, some will do so a few blocks from the high school campus at the former Lincoln Elementary School.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some districts are holding their school board meetings electronically, while others are holding them in a combination of in person and online. For information, visit district websites.
MOUNT VERNON — For many, the past 18 months have been difficult.
The Anacortes and Burlington-Edison school boards passed their school districts’ budgets Thursday night for the 2021-2022 school year.
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — As students prepare to begin another school year with COVID-19 looming over them, school districts have been trying to find as many ways as possible to get back to normal.
About 18 months after first shutting their doors because of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools in Skagit County are preparing to reopen their doors full time to students.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some districts are holding their school board meetings electronically, while others are holding them in a combination of in person and online. For information, visit district websites.
MOUNT VERNON — A Mount Vernon School Board meeting was switched to online only Wednesday after a person attending the meeting declined to abide by a mask mandate.
On the heels of Gov. Jay Inslee’s announcement Wednesday that staff in schools statewide must get vaccinated against COVID-19, small groups throughout the county took part in planned rallies decrying Inslee’s mask mandate for schools.
LA CONNER — Sports and education have been a big part of Mikki Gifford's professional and personal life.
