Variety of items: Colfax Supt. Pugh updates board on his Olympia trip

The Colfax School board met Monday night with a modified agenda due to snow, postponing a Jennings Elementary board appreciation event at the school library.

Board members instead gathered in their regular meeting room and Superintendent Jerry Pugh opened by thanking city and county snow-plow crews.

“Even the gravel roads got it today,” he said, as snow continued to fall outside the window, after a two-hour school delay earlier. “You won’t be able to tell in the morning.”

Pugh noted that Mark Brown, the district’s maintenance director, was in by 3:30 a.m Monday. Pugh specifically thanked Todd...