WAITSBURG - After serving 24 years on the Waitsburg School Board, Greg Zuger will step down in November. Two candidates, Russ Knopp and Margaret Terry, are running for the School Director Position 5, being vacated by Zuger.

Former Waitsburg Elementary principal and teacher, Russ Knopp, says his four decades as a teacher, principal, and school board member, along with his commitment to putting students first, make him a well-qualified as board member.

Knopp attended Seattle Pacific University from 1962-66, but took a break from school to accept his first teaching/coaching job at Bridgeport,...