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By Lorie Palmer (community editor)
COTTONWOOD -- It's Montana-bound for Prairie school's top administrator.
"This was in the plans when I moved here," said Cottonwood Joint School District 242 superintendent Gary Blaz.
Blaz, who has been with JSD 242 for the past three years, will move to Montana at the end of this school year. He will begin work as the superintendent for Target Range, a small K-12 school district in Missoula, July 5.
"My wife and I purchased a house in the Missoula area a couple of years ago with plans to begin the retirement process to that area," Blaz, 52, explained. "Most all of our family -- parents, children and grandchildren -- live in Montana."
Blaz said the school board is currently debating about how to fill the superintendent's position, which will be part-time. Blaz has served as half-time principal and superintendent in Prairie schools.
"The job may be shared that way again," he said.
Prairie schools' enrollment, like most rural school districts across Idaho, has continued to go down throughout the past decade. The district plans to close the elementary building in 2011-2012 and house all students at the Prairie High and Middle school sites. Plans on how to best follow through with that are still being considered, Blaz said.
"One thing for sure, we will have to ask the community to support a levy to help maintain the schools," he said. "We are still in the process of figuring out how much. We hope to have that in place prior to the April board meeting."
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