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At the same time Washington High School students will enter a new building next year, they will each receive a laptop computer to be used throughout their high school career.On Wednesday, the Washington School Board approved a $695,000 expenditure to lease 575 MacBook computers for ninth through 12th grade students. According to the district?s ?1 to 1? plan, each student will be issued a computer when entering ...

Whenever the two teams of Washington and Mt. Pleasant are on the basketball court together, fans from both teams never know how the games will end, and that was the case Friday, Feb. 10, when the Mt. Pleasant girls traveled to Washington to play in the last regular-season home game for both teams.Mt. Pleasant would get on the board first with a 3-pointer, but Washington would come back by scoring eight in a row. ...

Editor?s note: Emily Robinson, a Creston eighth grader, won first place in a statewide essay contest, sponsored by the Iowa Department of Human Rights, the Iowa Department of Education and the State Historical Society. Robinson won her award in the Science and Engineering for 8-9 grade divisions. The contest is called ?Write Women Back into History? and Robinson?s essay was on Barb Welander, Mt. Pleasant. ...

NEW LONDON ? The New London girls ran in to a tough matchup Saturday, Feb. 4, in their SEISC Shootout game with Columbus.The speedy Wildcats used fastbreak points in the second half to run away from the young Tigers late, eventually taking a big 47-27 win for the South.The game was close throughout the first half. New London stayed in the game with solid defense that slowed down Columbus senior guards Shania ...

The Washington Archery Program had another successful tournament at Cedar Rapids Prairie Point Saturday, Feb. 4. The high school and middle school teams placed first and the elementary team placed fourth.The high school team scored a season high 3,351 points, giving them first place out of eight teams.In the girls? division, medal winners were Samantha Mellinger in first place with a score of 293 and Grace ...

WELLMAN ? Baskets were hard to come by for the Washington Demon girls basketball team as they struggled against the Mid-Prairie Golden Hawks, losing their contest 42-64.Mid-Prairie would get on the board early with four points before Washington had a chance to score, but Mid-Prairie would control the scoring the rest of the first quarter as they would go ahead 24-12.Washington started off the second quarter ...

?It was an up-and-down game,? said Washington boys coach Collin Stark when talking about their contest with Mid-Prairie which kept fans on the edges of their seats the entire time.Mid-Prairie started off with a 3-pointer, but Washington followed by scoring five points to take the early lead.Both teams would battle it out on the court the remainder of the first quarter with the Demons having a nine-point lead at ...

RIVERSIDE ? The No. 9 New London boys needed to pick up a win at Highland Tuesday night to earn a spot into the SEISC championship game this weekend but a hungry Husky team was just too much.Highland led start to finish and held off a late Tiger run to win the game, 72-62.The Huskies got off to a fast start, getting points inside at will to start the game.Freshman Zack Lasek was on fire from the opening tip. ...