Bus driver shortage hindering North Mason

North Mason School District Superintendent Dana Rosenbach sent district families a video message Sept. 17, the end of the district’s third week of school, to review existing and potential effects of the pandemic, with an emphasis on how COVID-19 could affect transportation.

To help the district keep students “in school, in class, in person” full time for the remainder of the year, Rosenbach asked families not to send students to school “when they’re not feeling well, when they have the sniffles, a fever or any kind of symptoms.”

Likewise, Rosenbach asked families of quarantined...