M&O levy
About the Measure
Three-year M&O levy amount: $26.4 million
Cost per $1,000 assessed value now: $2.94
Estimated new rate: $3.19
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Sunset Elementary opens health clinic
When a Sunset Elementary School student fell on the playground this week, the boy walked across the parking lot to the school’s new medical clinic. He was visiting Spokane County’s first school-based health clinic, which opened Tuesday at the Airway Heights school. The project, which has been in the works since fall 2010, will serve as a primary and urgent care clinic for the school’s K-6 students.
Republicans vying for Ahern’s seat
A pair of Republicans will compete against a former Democratic legislator for a newly open seat in the state House in Spokane’s 6th Legislative District. Larry Keller, the superintendent of the Cheney School District, and Spokane attorney Jeff Holy will try to keep Rep. John Ahern’s seat in Republican hands, while Dennis Dellwo will try to return to the Legislature after a 16-year absence, and in a new district.
Central Valley schools face suit
A Seattle attorney filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Central Valley School District, alleging that a former teacher sexually assaulted his client as a child some 45 years ago. Attorney James Rogers said in a news release that his client was abused several times by former teacher Howard Clayton Moos between 1964 and 1966. Rogers didn’t name his client, who is listed in the suit as “John Doe,” but said the former student was born in 1954.