The Matanuska Susitna Borough school board has announced a replacement for outgoing school superintendent Deena Paramo. On Wednesday, the board offered the Borough’s top school administrator job to Gene Stone, who is currently the district’s assistant superintendent of instruction. Stone’s contract is for one year only.
Stone has served in his current position since 2010. He has also been a principal at Palmer Junior Middle School. The school board is expected to approve Stone’s contact by June. His job starts July 1.
APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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