Medical Lake 21-22 school calendar approved

MEDICAL LAKE — The easy part seems to have been accomplished when the Medical Lake School Board approved its 2021-22 school calendar at its Feb. 23 monthly meeting.

Projected to start on Wed., Sept. 1 and finish June 15, the school year will do its best to launch amidst hopefully diminished COVID-19 restrictions, but confident because of measures taken in the 2020-21 term

There were, as always, a number of options presented to the calendar committee, and one consideration was because Labor Day is late this year — Sept. 6 — would be to begin in August, Superintendent Tim Ames explained.

But the...