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New La Conner School Board of Directors Loran James and Kim Pedroza hit the ground running last week in a two-hour marathon meeting.

James and Pedroza were appointed last month to fill sudden board vacancies. They did not have the luxury of taking time to get up to speed.

And despite the length, it was a relatively fast-paced session.

New ground was presented midway through in the form of a 30-minute presentation and proposal by Morgan Brown and Jen Willup of the Between Two Worlds indigenous science class to develop a native food medicine forest and barbecue pit behind the Bruce Perform...