New administrative team starts Rosalia school year

Following the retirement of the Rosalia School District principal, secretary and part-time superintendent in June, three administrators have joined the district.

Matthew McLain is stepping in to replace Darrel Kuhn as Rosalia principal, bringing with him 20 years of education experience. Most recently the preschool-12th grade principal at Columbia School District in Hunters, for four years, McLain also served as an English teacher and an alternative program principal in Chewelah for the better part of a decade.

McLain said he feels at home in Whitman County, having spent six and a half years i...