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WAITSBURG – Waitsburg High School earned a well-deserved nod of recognition in an Aug. 10 article in The Seattle Times. The article, titled ‘Fewer Washington students who go to college need to take remedial courses,’ says that the state’s highest enrollment rate was in Waitsburg School District where 86 percent of the district’s 21 2015 graduates attended college.

Issaquah was a close second at 85 percent, followed by Mercer Island and Bellevue, which both had 81 percent of their students enroll in college. Mercer Island also had the second-lowest rate of students who enrolled in...