Woodring College of Education

Sister Cecilia Marie Gri, the longest-serving nun in the western region of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, died early Sunday in Bellevue at the age of 98.
She was born July 15, 1913, in Greenwood, British Columbia, to Francis and Lois Gri. She went to convent school in Nelson, British…

BELLINGHAM - Shelley Jefferson teaches kids about the tides.

"Remember how we talked about the eelgrass?" she asks a small mob of fourth-graders at Carl Cozier Elementary School. "Who can tell me why tides are important?"

Jefferson doesn't give them the…

Western Washington University’s Woodring College of Education will offer its Master of Education in Continuing and College Education degree program via an online-only format beginning fall 2012. The Master of Education in Continuing and College Education, Western’s first online master’s degree,…

The new Crescent School District superintendent is Clayton Mork, a graduate instructor at Western Washington University.

Mork, 59, accepted the job offer Thursday night, said present superintendent Tom Anderson on Friday.

Mork, who holds a doctorate, replaces Anderson, 66, who…

Bill Lahmann’s office is filled with silly retirement cards, baseball caps and T-shirts. He even has a new set of golf clubs to break in. They are plastic toys, but golf clubs nonetheless.

During the past few months, students and employees in the 9,200-student Olympia School District have…