School board approves new faculty

The Colfax School District board met Monday night for a mid-summer meeting and approved a budget for the 2019-20 school year, hirings from new teachers to a new volleyball coach and the resignation of Nathan Holbrook as P.E. teacher and athletic director.

The board was introduced to a series of the newly-hired, including Michael Dorman, social studies teacher, a Colfax resident who has spent the last 12 years teaching at Washtucna; Joey Reed, a 16-year middle/high school teacher at Oakesdale, who will join the Colfax junior high staff, and new principal David Gibb, who arrives from Selah, repl...