OPINION
Editorial Cartoon: Dec. 1
Letters to the Editor: Dec. 1
Thanks to all Dear Editor: Thanks to everyone who called, sent or gave cards after Lulu Belle’s passing on. To Janie and Molly, also, who gave cards and food. To all who attended the memorial and to those who related stories of their personal interactions over the years with her. To Greta, whose temporary job […]
No bad days: Counting on counting your votes
If you like predictability and routine, the newspaper business isn’t for you. We start each of our weekly news cycles on Wednesday morning with no idea what might pop up, news-wise, over the next several days, and knowing that we will need to react and adjust to circumstances as they develop. It requires a lot […]
CORRECTION: Dec. 1
The Nov. 24 Twisp Valley Life column incorrectly identified the burial place for Lulu Belle Ames. She is buried at Sullivan Cemetery in Winthrop. The News regrets the error.
Guest Column: Team of wildfire experts dispels common misconceptions about forest management
By Kylie Mohr, High Country News This year’s fire season broke records: In July, the National Interagency Fire Center raised its preparedness level to Level 5, the most critical status possible, indicating that 80% of all wildfire fighting resources nationwide were already allocated. It remained there for 69 days, the longest stretch ever. Firefighting resources […]
No bad days — Turning down the volume
I’m thinking we could all use a quiet week. We have somehow lurched almost entirely through a relentlessly disquieting year, likely on the cusp of another one, and a few moments of calm would be a healthy antidote. Perhaps it’s because I’m writing this from a quiet place enjoying quiet companionship, watching a robust fire […]
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 24
Don’t fall for it Dear Editor: Recently I was in line for my COVID 19 booster shot. I suddenly felt patriotic to be there and to see so many others there too. I felt we were locking arms against this threat to our national well-being. I was proud of King County with its current rate […]
Hello? The definition of insanity
That irritating Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, a sharp critic of empty posturing on climate change, aptly summed up the recent Glasgow COP26 international climate crisis confab: “Blah, blah, blah.” The elephant in Glasgow labored mightily — and brought forth a mouse. Once again. Thunberg and her cohorts — 100,000 of whom reportedly showed up to […]
