Tumwater, North Thurston appoint new school board members
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Two new faces have joined area school boards.
The Tumwater School District announced Friday that Laurie Sale has been appointed to fill the District No. 1 seat on the school board left vacant by Stephanie Goebel.
Sale, who has three children — two of whom attend a school in the district — has co-founded a local nonprofit called Helping Schools 360, according to a news release. She’s a graduate of Ohio State University.
Sale will be sworn in to her new role at the May 13 school board meeting.
North Thurston Public Schools also has a new school board member.
In late March, Jennifer Thomas was appointed to fill the District No. 3 seat left vacant by Melissa Hartley.
Thomas is a nurse who also holds a doctorate in nursing from Washington State University. She’s on the nursing faculty at Pacific Lutheran University.
Both Sale and Thomas will have to decide whether they plan to run for the seats they were appointed to. Candidate filing week for the 2021 fall municipal and school board elections is May 17-21.
This story was originally published May 2, 2021 at 10:48 AM.
