The Gonzaga women are halfway through the West Coast Conference season, and things couldn’t be going much better. The Zags moved up to 12th in this week’s Associated Press poll, became the first 20-win team in Division 1 last weekend and have a nation-leading 18-game winning streak.
Beginning on Monday, Rogers will be the first high school in Spokane to host a comprehensive health clinic, thanks to a three-year, $590,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente.
Jill Townsend notched a double-double of 18 points and 10 rebounds to lead No. 13 Gonzaga to a 70-36 victory over Pepperdine on Thursday at the McCarthey Athletic Center.
Spokane Public Schools is willing to consider building a new high school sports stadium downtown, but only if “circumstances change significantly,” according to board President Jerrall Haynes.
Spokane Public Schools will host four community forums during the next week on the elementary school specialist model, which was one of the most contentious issues arising from last year’s budget cuts.
Good things happen for a reason, though Jerrall Haynes couldn’t see it through the snowflakes. A newly minted airman from South Carolina, he arrived in November of 2010 for his first assignment at Fairchild Air Force Base. Now, only 31, he’s the board president of the second largest school district in the state.
Currently 16th in the Associated Press, the Zags will certainly move up after No. 12 Texas A&M, No. 13 Florida State and No. 15 Indiana lost on Thursday night.
“Actually it’s way more important than Rubber Chicken,” said Braden Albertini, who will turn 18 on July 20, of registering to vote. “People in government are deciding what they’re going to do for you, and I think that having a say in that is really important.”
Unlike several other teams in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, the Gonzaga women avoided the upset bug. However, despite the turmoil – 11 ranked teams lost at least one game last week – the Zags weren’t able to move up in this week’s poll and remain 16th. They also stayed seventh in the Rating Percentage Index, or RPI.
Thirty-two years after hosting one of the biggest rock ‘n roll events in local history, Albi Stadium will do it again this summer after the Spokane Public Schools board gave tentative approval Wednesday night for the Monsters of Rock 2020 concert.
The flyers, tens of thousands of them, arrived during the holidays at the homes of educators in Spokane and throughout the state. They were invitations from an Olympia-based conservative think tank to save that money by opting out of paying membership dues to the Washington Education Association, the statewide teacher’s union.