Board rethinks facilities plan after sticker shock

It sounded like a good idea at the time: See if there’s a way to gather the Grand Coulee Dam School District’s athletics facilities onto one campus.

With that direction from the board of directors, the district hired an architect last spring to look into the possibilities.

Anything is possible for a price, but maybe not one you want to pay.

When the new K-12 school was built with no local debt, fu...