The Wenatchee School District is preparing to ask voters to approve a $294 million bond next year, saying aging infrastructure at Wenatchee High School has reached the point where replacing the entire building is more cost-effective than patching problems.
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You’ve probably seen her if you’ve wandered into The Wenatchee World office over the past six decades. A sweet tea within reach, a puzzle of page layouts scattered across her desktop. She’s not a reporter, not someone whose byline you’d recognize. But if you’ve held The World in your hands in the last 60 years, you’ve held Karen Kell’s work.
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After nearly three decades in Wenatchee schools, Donna Moser has stepped into the principal’s chair at the district’s largest campus. She sees leadership not as command but collaboration — building spaces, relationships, and opportunities where students can thrive.
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Standing up
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Bob Bauer likes to tell people the fish can’t read.
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With a high school wrestling season like the one out of Okanogan this year, several things are clear.
They now have five new state champions (three boys and two girls), the most earned by any NCW school during the Mat Classic XXXVI at the Tacoma Dome in February, which also placed them second (273.5) as a team among 2B/1B schools.
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You could say Gary Millard’s future was predetermined.
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Everyone has days when they need their 1 p.m. pick-me-up, their 2 p.m. recharge, their 3 p.m. boost — anything to battle the afternoon slump. In The World’s editorial office, the go-to spot to cure midday drowsiness is Beer, Wine and More on North Chelan. Not for beer or wine, of course, but…
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No announcement was made. But Kyle Kniveton quietly stopped teaching at John Newbery Elementary.
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Wenatchee Valley College has suspended its College Assistance Migrant Program after losing federal funding — and more cuts could be coming.
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In our community, we have a multitude of people and groups doing good, making waves and shaking things up. But for the premiere piece in this new “Who’s Who-sday” series, I want to begin with a group that’s just over a year old — one that began as a conversation between strangers and is beco…
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Accessible, affordable and high-quality child care and early learning services continue to be under-resourced across Washington and the nation, making sustainability nearly impossible for many providers and more inaccessible to children.
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Lorene Vehrs wakes each day when she pleases. The coffee is always black — no sugar, no cream, no apologies — and it flows constantly, all day, every day.
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Gone are the days of drive-in movie theaters, but a big screen outside will play six blockbuster hits this summer at Ohme Gardens, in a much more beautiful setting than a parking lot.
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A bucket list theater experience: “The Sound of Music” by Leavenworth Summer Theater is running again from July through August. Not only that annual event in its 30th year, but also productions of “Carousel” and “The Little Mermaid” round out the 2025 season.
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Two friendly families of eight putting on a mini-golf course, a couple on their one-year wedding anniversary sipping drinks after a massage, two moms passing their adorable baby back and forth in the pool — it’s another picturesque day at the Icicle Village Resort.
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In the silence that follows 25 uninterrupted minutes of thunder and flame, just before the crowd’s cheers sweep across the water like a returning tide, Kylee Boggs listens. It’s the quiet she lives for — that breathless moment when time stops, the smoke drifts, and the sky exhales.
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The mascot of Leavenworth Adventure Park is Ludwig the Lion, who is inspired by the Bavarian crest, symbolizing courage. It takes courage to climb the rock wall where the lion's head appears in the shape of the artificial rock face, and recently the mascot’s costume was worn by claustrophobi…
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Nobody enters the 1A Washington state wrestling meet, the Mat Classic XXXVI at the Tacoma Dome, under the delusion that winning a state championship is a certainty — that rationale is a slippery slope that rarely pays off.
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Members of the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center have had and will have a strong voice in the development plans for the facilities and future of the historic space. Early architectural design renderings now released show visions of the museum in 2028 based on community input survey…
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A fresh mural now rises on the western wall of the Douglas County Museum — a tribute to the days when the wind lifted wheat dust and schoolboys hitched rides on gravity-fed buckets. It honors a vanished feat of frontier engineering and the people who believed in progress enough to build it.
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Chelan County officials have clarified courthouse security protocols following the arrest of a man by federal immigration authorities just outside the county courthouse three weeks ago.
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Those driving through Malaga, near Pangborn Memorial Airport or in Quincy may have noticed — a tech giant is springing up in North Central Washington.
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“I hope y’all ready to move!” called Shanghai Doom from the Beyond Wonderland festival mainstage Queen’s Valley at the Gorge Amphitheatre on Sunday around 5 p.m. as a few rain drops fell on a scarcely clad crowd picking up momentum again after Saturday’s start.
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Consider every sacrifice made and the amount of sustained effort necessary for high school athletes to put themselves in a position to win a state championship, especially of the individual variety, and it won’t be a shock as to why I wouldn’t necessarily recommend breaking your arm in the attempt.
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“I truly hope the legacy of the girls' lives lives with you forever," is Whitney Decker's wish for the community.
As more than 800 community members gathered on Friday at Rocky Reach Dam in shared grief and love to honor the lives her three daughters, Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8 and Olivia, 5. Attendees wore pink, green and purple — the girls’ favorite colors — and held candles.
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Long before Kyle Davenport, 54, clinched a high point national championship for his hydroplane class last year, he received a visceral introduction to the sport as a child in the ‘70s.
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Chat about a big church yard sale and garage sale circuits passed around a small group of junk-art artists, fans and friends on First Friday at Lynn Art Gardens. Visitors wound their way around the metal sculptures outdoors and on porches in the garden gallery.
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The most challenging event for Wenatchee High School’s Ben Madson, during the 2025 4A boys’ state swimming championships held at Federal Way’s King County Aquatic Center in late February, likely wasn’t his record-breaking, state championship race in the 100-yard backstroke.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a Quincy man outside of a court sentencing at the Chelan County Courthouse on Wednesday, June 4.
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“The system failed us all so much.”
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“Remember that I was working for a newspaper, so in that realm, I was also working for the community, I found,” said Don Seabrook, retired photojournalist with 40 years at The Wenatchee World. From tens of thousands of images, he’s picked a few favorites to share with the community again — p…
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PUYALLUP — Two years since their last appearance, and for the fourth time in its history, the No. 8 Wenatchee High School boys’ soccer team was back in the 4A state semifinals on Friday night.
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Anna Gullickson said she was a floatplane pilot for Kenmore Air when a friend and fellow pilot told her to watch “Blackfish,” a documentary about the performing killer whale Tilikum in SeaWorld.
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The Port of Chelan County is suing Great Northern Pacific and Burlington Lines, known as BNSF Railway, for easement access on a vacated part of Kittitas Street.
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As the Trump Administration slashes AmeriCorps funding nationwide, a wave of uncertainty ripples through Washington state, where 10 local organizations now scramble to maintain critical community services—from legal aid and conservation work to student support and after-school programs—witho…
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As wildfire seasons grow longer and more intense across Washington state, advocates are working to ensure that non-English speakers, many of them migrant or seasonal workers, are not left behind during climate emergencies.
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You might not believe it, but before Dennis Tronson was ever synonymous with the Wenatchee High School boys’ soccer program, there was a time when he knew very little about the game.
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Homelessness among students doesn’t always look like tents under bridges or cars parked overnight in a Walmart lot. For most homeless youth in Washington, it means staying on a friend’s couch, sharing a bed in an overcrowded apartment, or moving from house to house with no permanent place to…
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After the Apple Blossom Festival’s Stemilt Grand Parade, as confetti and candy wrappers dotted the sidewalks, more than 90 volunteers from across the Wenatchee Valley followed behind the procession with trash bags in hand — simply to serve the city they call home.
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At 106, Bea Karr isn’t counting candles—she’s collecting stories. Born on May 22, 1919, Birdena “Bea” Karr has lived through two world wars, the rise of the internet, and a century’s worth of change, but she credits her longevity not to luck or genetics, but to something far simpler: staying…
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Comedian Paula Poundstone gets on stage to work the crowd with her wit at Numerica Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. at 123 N. Wenatchee Ave., Wenatchee. Tickets are $35-$65 at numericapac.org.
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Anna Gullickson said she was a floatplane pilot for Kenmore Air when a friend and fellow pilot told her to watch “Blackfish,” a documentary about the performing killer whale Tilikum in SeaWorld.
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When Yarn Bird closed its doors on South Wenatchee Avenue last December, longtime local knitter April Pittsinger couldn’t stand the thought of the city losing its only yarn shop. Just a few months later, she’s the proud owner of a new fiber arts store — one that blends the spirit of Yarn Bir…
Community Reporter
NCW food banks are getting taxed further while providing nourishment to residents.
In March, the USDA announced $1 billion in cuts, which trickle down to local entities that use the USDA Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) Cooperative Agreement Program and Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).
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Housing market analyses released at the end of the fourth quarter of 2024 demonstrated a lack of first-time homebuyers, unfavorable construction commodity prices, declining single-family home inventory, remodeling market trends, and upticks in new building permits and housing affordability.
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Weidner Apartment Homes is developing a new, mixed-use, multifamily apartment community that includes the renovation of the old Wenatchee courthouse and jail, as well as the addition of two new retail spaces. The project will expand Weidner’s local footprint and provide a facelift for South …
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Mabel Hoffman says turning 105 doesn’t feel like the middle or the end. “It’s just a number,” she says, with a shrug that holds the weight of history and a century’s worth of clarity.
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Navigating community reentry requires the interplay of state resources, nonprofit advocacy and an intrinsic drive for self-preservation.
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The Wenatchee Valley is a destination for locals seeking a weekend getaway, regional residents looking for outdoor recreation in North Central Washington, and travelers from across the U.S. and abroad.
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