Remem­ber in the mid-1990s when Jeff Davis was here? Looks like he just moved to the Ore­gon coast. Here’s more, from the Flo­rence, OR, news­pa­per: After review­ing 22 appli­ca­tions for the super­in­ten­dent posi­tion, the Sius­law School Dis­trict announced last week that Jeff Davis of Ort­ing, Wash., will take over the reins begin­ning July 1. Davis, 62,  Con­tin­ue Reading

It was a lit­tle sur­pris­ing to see FHHS teach­ers Ruthie Paull, Marc Ver­miere, and Susie Hale on the fer­ry Tues­day (like, who is there left to teach the kids?!?) but it was nice to find out why they’re going.… Ser­vice learn­ing is becom­ing more & more used by schools around the USA and Cana­da —  Con­tin­ue Reading

Last night at Coupeville, the Fri­day Har­bor Wolver­ines beat the Wolves 13–3 in their sea­son open­er. Led by pitch­er Ker­ri Goff, last year’s league champs showed pow­er at the plate and strong defense. Head coach Kevin Carl­ton said he was “thrilled” by the girls’ strong start, and said the team is look­ing for­ward to their  Con­tin­ue Reading

Cathy Cole told me they tried: This week­end, Liam con­struct­ed a Lep­rechaun Trap for his 2nd grade class. He and his class­mates put the traps out yes­ter­day in hopes that they would catch them­selves some lucky lep­rechauns on St. Patrick­’s Day. In the past, the only evi­dence in Ms. Evan’s class­room were lit­tle lep­rechaun foot­prints on  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Wolver­ines start­ed strong, hold­ing the more expe­ri­enced Wolves score­less for the first 16 min­utes, but the young FHHS team allowed five goals before the half, before los­ing 13–1 yes­ter­day. Fri­day Har­bor scored a cou­ple of min­utes into the sec­ond half (Conor Lan­phere fin­ished a Cameron Bying­ton cross to the right side) to offer a  Con­tin­ue Reading

Deb Nolan has more: The sale is Sat­ur­day, March 21, 2009! Did you get too many Christ­mas gifts? That dia­mond ring no longer fits? Don’t know what to do with all the stuff from spring clean­ing? Bring us your stuff!! Donate all your unwant­ed ‘trea­sures’ to the Fri­day Har­bor High School PTSA Project Grad­u­a­tion Rum­mage Sale. We need  Con­tin­ue Reading

Vis­it­ing Merid­i­an swept past a rapid­ly improv­ing FHHS squad last night by scor­ing four in each half. In spite of the score, the Wolver­ines were still hus­tling with ten min­utes to go in the game, and near­ly con­vert­ed a hand­ful of chances in the sec­ond half. In a sea­son that is like­ly to be mea­sured by  Con­tin­ue Reading

The SJISD Super­in­ten­dent Search meet­ings are Thurs­day of this week! These meet­ings are for gath­er­ing input and infor­ma­tion from the school com­mu­ni­ty and oth­er inter­est­ed par­ties. Time­lines, sched­ules and desired qual­i­fi­ca­tions in lead­er­ship will be dis­cussed.  A sur­vey is avail­able to any­one who can­not make the meet­ings.  Peo­ple can con­tact Maude at the dis­trict office  Con­tin­ue Reading

Deb­bi wrote and says she’s look­ing to make a com­plete guide for kids about what they can do this sum­mer — and she needs your help. Here’s more: Hey, Ian! I have a favor to ask. I’m work­ing on the SJI Sum­mer Activ­i­ty Cal­en­dar for our Youth 2009. This will be our third year to offer  Con­tin­ue Reading

Deb­bi wrote and says she’s look­ing to make a com­plete guide for kids about what they can do this sum­mer — and she needs your help. Here’s more: Hey, Ian! I have a favor to ask. I’m work­ing on the SJI Sum­mer Activ­i­ty Cal­en­dar for our Youth 2009. This will be our third year to offer  Con­tin­ue Reading

Lin­da & Mau­reen have been help­ing the folks with the Slow Food Project & the cool direc­tion that healthy eat­ing is going on the island (I love it! Have you eat­en at the high school late­ly? It rocks!) Here’s more from our friends: Please see our lat­est update: http://slowfoodlandandsea.blogspot.com/ Enrique Cer­da, the truf­fle mak­er from  Con­tin­ue Reading

Just received this note from schools super­in­ten­dent Michael Soltman.…as you know, the school board cut the fund­ing for school-fund­ed sports last week. Now, the schools are look­ing for anoth­er enti­ty to work with on this, so they’re get­ting a cam­paign ready to reach their goals, with Island Rec. Here’s more: Island Rec and SJISD Announce  Con­tin­ue Reading