New LR principal plans to stay for years to come

April 17, 2019 | Vol. 78 - No. 3

Kirk Marshlain in the LR library during the Grand Coulee Dam School District's April 8 board meeting. - Jacob Wagner photo

Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School is getting a new principal.

Kirk Marshlain currently teaches English language arts and special education at Foothills Middle School in Wenatchee, and will take on the principalship at LR for the 2019-20 school year.

Marshlain grew up in Lake Chelan, and after graduating from high school there, received a baseball scholarship to Simpson University in Redding, California, where he played baseball and earned a bachelor's in English for teachers in 2010.

"I've worked with students in many different capacities," Marshlain told The Star in an email. "I...

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