The Bellingham Herald

• County schools say goodbye to retiring teachers
  For the last 40 years, Judith Timothy Shepherd, or Tim as she's better known, has worked as an educator. She's done it all, from working with the Nooksack Tribal Headstart program to teaching English at Mount Baker High School to working as a teacher-producer for PBS to teaching at Western Washington University.
  But her favorite is teaching the sixth grade, which she's done for the bulk of her career.

The Seattle Times

• Wazzu to cut 359 jobs
  Washington State University will cut 359 jobs and eliminate several programs to deal with severe budget cuts imposed by the state, according an advance copy of a news release obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
  In a speech WSU President Elson Floyd was to deliver Wednesday morning, he says the school's departments of Theater and Dance, and Community and Rural Sociology will be phased out, and the German major will be eliminated because of budget cuts of $54 million over the next two years that were imposed by the Legislature. But the sports management program, which had been slated for elimination, will be retained.