The Petersburg School Board officially approved the hire of Heather Conn as Rae C. Stedman Elementary School principal

on Tuesday beginning August, 2019.

"I am sure as I walked through the halls today and saw the two principals together meeting already, that Heather has already hit the ground running and planning for next year," said school board president Mara Lutomski at Tuesday's school board meeting.

Conn has been with the school district since 2014 when she began working on her internship for her master's degree in educational leadership through University of Alaska Southeast. She wa...