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Young engineers win awards  >>
May 16, 2008

A number of Lewis & Clark Elementary School students earned top awards at the Washington Science Teachers Association Science & Engineering Contest.

CBC scholarships awarded to alternative high school students  >>
May 15, 2008

Four seniors from local alternative high schools have been awarded $1,500 scholarships to attend Columbia Basin College next fall thanks to the generosity of the Fluor Corporation and the CBC Foundation.

Board approves renovation of auditorium classrooms (Tri-City Herald)
May 14, 2008

Band students at Richland High School have to store their instruments in the hallway. And there's no place to keep the sets created for plays that drama students put on each year. At least that's how it used to be. The school board Tuesday agreed to spend about $1.8 million to renovate the school's auditorium...


Richland High School alum makes Broadway debut  >>
May 13, 2008

Santino Fontana, 2000 graduate of Richland High School, is currently performing in "Sunday in the Park with George" on Broadway.

Children send salmon swimming (Herald article with video)
May 7, 2008

Alisha Gonzalez gripped the binoculars and rocked up on her tip-toes to get a better look. "Where is it?" she asked. Then she spotted it, a baby owl resting in a tree at the Horn Rapids park near Richland. "It was really fuzzy," said Alisha, 10, a few minutes later, still smiling.

The fifth-grader at Jason Lee Elementary in Richland was one of 1,500 pupils from across the Mid-Columbia at Benton Conservation District's annual Salmon Summit.


Destination Imagination teams headed to global finals (Tri-City Herald)
May 5, 2008

Oh yeah, they're excited. The plane ride! Staying in the dorms! Trading pins with other kids from around the world! Two teams of students from Richland are going to the Destination Imagination Global Finals in Tennessee later this month....

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