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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Protecting existing programs and restoring funding cuts that were made to help balance the state budget will be the focus of the Washington State Board of Education in the 2026 legislative session. “We’re looking at a framework that responds to the budget realities while also keeping student needs at the forefront,” Yazmin Carretero, the board’s government relations and policy analyst, told members in their August meeting. The legislative platform communicates the board’s top priorities to the Legislature and will guide the legislati...
preparing to start the school year without millions of dollars from a program meant to offset reduced revenue from logging on federal lands. The Secure Rural Schools program expired at the end of 2023 after Congress failed to renew it. Democratic and Republican lawmakers, along with local officials, are pushing U.S. House leadership to bring a bill renewing the program to the floor. The lapsed program helps pay for roads and schools, providing $7 billion in payments to more than 700 counties...
More than two dozen new and rare bee species were documented during the first year of a new Washington state project that's designed to get a better understanding of the insects. The Washington State Department of Agriculture is seeking new bee collection volunteers as its Bee Atlas initiative enters its second year. "We're already learning fascinating things about our native bees, and we're only getting started," said Karen Wright, pollinator taxonomist for the Washington State Department of...
