GSD tries to ride out McCleary storm

November 21, 2018

Severe Storm warnings have been issued for Goldendale.

"We're calling it a perfect storm, headed straight for the Goldendale School District," says Interim District Superintendent Ian Grabenhorst. District Business Manager Dean Schlenker echoes the forecast, poetically joining finances with climate change.

Long-term, the district's resources will become disastrous within two years unless something changes very soon.

The elements combining for this perfect storm all stem from one legislative high-pressure system, pressing everything in its path into inescapable no-win situations.

"A perfect storm is one critical disaster situation created by a powerful concurrence of key factors," Schlenke...

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