So long as there are strictly-enforced rules, Thanksgiving dinner can also include politics.
This is the second of two columns.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
When the left fielder went missing
Ramon Rivera, the director of the nationally renowned mariachi music program in the Wenatchee School District, has done a masterful job of building bridges both in our valley and around the country during his 15-year tenure.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Chelan County PUD had a party last week to celebrate the closing of its Museum of the Columbia at Rocky Reach Dam and the beginning of a two-year construction project that will result in a more interactive and updated museum at the dam’s visitor center.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
For a state department with an annual budget of more than $370 million, the Department of Natural Resources is surprisingly anonymous. In coordinating Washington’s defense against wildfires, the agency receives attention during hot, smoky summers, yet otherwise is easily overlooked.
East Wenatchee Council
I’m always a bit nervous before covering the downtown Halloween trick or treat event because I’m never sure what I’ll find. What I’ve discovered over the years though is that if I’m focused and patient there can be some wonderful photographs to be found.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
Wenatchee School Board
One of the great challenges and opportunities facing our communities is how we can constructively address our mental health challenges. We are fortunate that Chelan and Douglas counties have a chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) that is providing training and support gr…
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
A few weeks ago, a tiny news operation down along the Columbia River conducted an interview that revealed how marooned Republicans suddenly are by impeachment.
Wenatchee School Board Meliesa Tigard understands the needs of children
Malia Renner-Singer, the 2020 Regional Teacher of the Year for the North Central Education Service District, has some powerful insights about the impact of teachers in our communities.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Wenatchee School Board Support for Martin Barron
As they work to repair flawed software that is believed to have caused the crash of two 737 Max planes in the past year, Boeing officials also must repair the public's trust in the aerospace giant that is the largest private employer in Washington.
To anyone who’s followed the news of wildfires in California in recent years — or this week’s Tick fire — the 200-page report commissioned by Los Angeles County officials on last year’s Woolsey fire will sound familiar.
Wenatchee School Board
By Sean Flaherty
Wenatchee School Board
Our Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center will soon be embarking on a public engagement effort to understand what issues the community is concerned about, the perceived strengths of the museum and ideas about how it can make meaningful contributions going forward.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Earlier this month on a Monday I called the Wenatchee Museum & Cultural Center to see if someone was getting the building ready for their Haunted Museum. I had received an invitation to browse the finished haunt later that week but I wanted to get something published earlier to give the …
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
Chelan City Council
Wenatchee School Board
Confronting the reality of abortion
About 15 years ago, we hired an employee with developmental disabilities at The World. Brian was hired because I felt that he could make a contribution to the company and because I thought it would be a productive way to help our staff gain a greater understanding and appreciation of folks w…
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Chelan City Council Support for John Olson
Serendipity sometimes plays a magical role in life — a fact that that Lena Paige knows as well as anyone. The North Central Washington native once spent seven years singing in Nashville before giving up on her dream of recording the country and western songs she and her mother have spent the…
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Parks don’t mix well
Shared prosperity, the commitment to the health and well-being of everyone, is a core principle of the visionary leaders who built North Central Washington. They took great risks in building, for example, our local public utility districts — organizations devoted to serving local communities.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
I am impressed by efforts being made by the Cashmere School District to ensure a quality education for all of their students. The district has a keen understanding of and appreciation for the toxic stress that impacts many students and is trying to foster resilience by creating programs to s…
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Watermelon, mango, mint — as well as strawberry milk and strawberry lemonade — are a few of the fruit and candy flavors that were available to vapers last week. No more.
The Spokesman-Review
The United States may not be the only target of Vladimir Putin’s social-media warfare, but many Americans do seem particularly vulnerable to Russian agents’ tricks.
Some weeks here in the newsroom are pretty well planned out as I go from one event or subject to another, making photographs for the newspaper.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
Wenatchee School Board election
Along with electing several local officials on Nov. 5, voters will be asked to do a bit of constitutional housekeeping.
There are some photo stories that just take time to shoot. I work days, weeks, months, sometimes years in advance working with the people I’m going to photograph to figure out the day/time that I could show up and start documenting what’s interesting in their lives.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
Thanks for a great Autumn Leaf Festival
One of the more powerful examples of overcoming animosities and finding common ground and mutual trust and respect can be found in the work of the Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
“If you’re going to San-Fran-Cis-Co…wear flowers in your hair” and … bring 20 gallons of gasoline in the trunk.
Good at taxing, but not paving
One of the truly exceptional nonprofits in our region is Court Appointed Child Advocates (CASA) of Chelan and Douglas counties, a nonprofit that is celebrating 25 years of service to some of our most vulnerable children this month.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Tribune News Service
A new California law allowing college athletes to profit from marketing their own likenesses has ruffled the feathers of the mighty National Collegiate Athletic Association.
There is a new word in our lexicon: Nomophobia. Two of every three of you reading this have it. What is this fear gripping the good people of this nation? Nomophobia is the fear of being away from your phone.
More battery operated cars and trucks are making their way on to streets and highways, so why not trains? That may not be too far off if BNSF Railway tests are successful.
Careers After School, a program that educates students grades 6-12 about a variety of career paths through hands-on learning, returns later this month for the fourth consecutive year.
The World: A subtle slant to Trump
There is something moving in carrying on the community- building work of one’s parents after they pass away.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
