Board approves Clemens as Cheney’s next superintendent

The Cheney School Board decided at last week’s meeting that current associate superintendent Deb Clemens would be the school district’s next superintendent.

Pending successful contract negotiations, Clemens will take over for retiring Superintendent Larry Keller in July.

After 14 years of work in the school district and being selected as a finalist for the top job when Keller was hired in 2008, Clemens was overcome with emotion after the four attending board members (James Whiteley was absent) voted unanimously to offer her the job and the meeting’s attendees rose for a standing ovation.

“I al...