Dolly Parton's Reading Library Becomes Law in WA State to Much Delight
In March 2022, Washington state Governor Jay Inslee signed into law HB 2068. This law became effective on June 9, 2022, making international country music and entertainment icon Dolly Parton's library program a interim permanent part of Washington state history!
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The city received $2 million in state funding for the $2.2 million project. City funds are also being used for the facility planned for the corner of the city campus property on Ahtanum road.
SEATTLE (AP) — When Pat Bliquez interviewed for the librarian job at McDonald International Elementary in Seattle's North End a few years ago, she asked what her library budget would be.
For more than two decades, she had dealt with a shrinking library budget at another school in a poorer neighborhood...
The Robertson Elementary School Library in Yakima caught fire due to arson - Hundreds of books were destroyed destroyed after an arsonist sets fire to the school's library.