Airway Heights offers summer citizens academy

Airway Heights residents who want to learn more about how their city’s government work will get a chance to peek behind the curtain.

The city is offering a citizen’s academy for residents in the summer. The academy, which will take place for 1-2 hours, one day a week for six weeks, gives people a look at how Airway Heights’ City Council and the city departments operate.

City Manager Albert Tripp explained that the academy was created as a part of the goals the City Council adopted in 2015 — specifically relating to public outreach and civic engagement. Airway Heights has spent the last several...