For lack of a nurse, school shuts for a day

Lake Roosevelt Schools took an unplanned day off Monday after the district learned on Friday it would not have a school nurse.

Superintendent Rod Broadnax said he learned as he was out of town Friday that the nurse who had been supplied to the schools for two days a week by the local hospital district would no longer be available.

Registered nurses are in short supply in Washington state, and Coul...