The Hood River County School District has filled two vacant principal positions in its elementary schools.  Ocean Kuykendall will be principal at Westside Elementary.  Kuykendall replaces Bill Newton, who left to take the district’s Curriculum and Instruction Director position.  Kuykendall has served as assistant principal at Hood River Middle School since 2014.  Prior to that, she taught at that school for eight years.  Adrienne Acosta was selected as principal at Cascade Locks School to replace outgoing principal Amy Moreland, who resigned to move closer to family.  Acosta has been a teacher in the district since 2007 when she started at Cascade Locks School as a special education teacher and reading specialist for grades K-12.  From 2010 until February of this year, she was a special education teacher at May Street Elementary School, and then became the district’s migrant summer school program director.