ML school employee tests positive for COVID-19

MEDICAL LAKE — Just as Medical Lake parents and employees were trying to grasp the magnitude of Gov. Jay Inslee’s decree that all state K-12 schools would be forced to close for up to six weeks due to the COVID-19 virus, news that a staff member had tested positive was announced.

The governor announced on Friday, Feb. 13 that schools across the state —both public and private —would remain closed from March 17 through April 24. This decision expanded a closure that Inslee announced March 11, affecting schools in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties in the Puget Sound.

In the meantime, many schoo...