New teacher coming to work at Sunnyside

Sunnyside Intermediate School has a new fifth grade teacher from western Washington.

"I'm looking forward to getting to know my students in this new area," Amanda Hoefs said. "I'm new to the area, so new students, new people, new culture, so I kind of want to immerse myself in and meet everybody, I'm really excited about that."

She said she is from a small town called Aberdeen, Washington, where she not only grew up, but started teaching.

She attended Grays Harbor Community College for her first two years then finished at Western Governors University of Salt Lake City, Utah, online, she...