OPINION
Editorial Cartoon: Sept. 15
Letters to the Editor: Sept. 15
Kiwanis appreciates Dear Editor: Our annual Winthrop Kiwanis Duck Race held on Labor Day was a great success this year due to the help and support of many people. First, our community members purchased many duck tickets for the chance to win the race. We appreciate the Tenderfoot, NAPA Auto Parts, Winthrop Physical Therapy & […]
Note to readers from Publisher Don Nelson
I don’t have a lot to say this week, and wish I could say that I’m just taking some time off. Instead, I’m writing this from a hospital bed thanks to a difficult-to-diagnose, hard-to-pronounce but treatable autoimmune system condition that is not COVID-related (I’m vaccinated, and tested negative three times in the past 10 days). […]
No Bad Days — Reminder to self
Before I purchased the Methow Valley News in 2011, I thought a lot about what that would mean. I came up with a mission statement and vision statement that I intended to guide the newspaper’s operations and establish its commitment to this community. I reprint these statements every year to remind myself, my staff, our […]
Box 97: Letters to the editor
When will we learn? Dear Editor: Secretary of State Blinken recently said that “Kabul is manifestly not Saigon.” He is wrong. George Santayana famously wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We might add, those who work from theory unsupported by fact are doomed to failure. Did we learn anything […]
Guest Column: Dollar General seeks to reshape small towns
By Brian Depew/ Center for Rural Affairs Dollar General has become a ubiquitous feature of America’s small towns. The discount retailer is opening new stores at a rate of 1,000 a year. There are now more than 16,000 spread across the country, including two in the county where I live in Nebraska. The unmistakable concrete […]
Harts Pass: Sept. 8
Editorial Cartoon: Sept. 1
Letters to the Editor: Sept. 1
Powerful roll call Dear Editor: The lead to your Aug. 18 editorial is a gem. It would not be a stretch to hear names like Antietam and Shiloh included in your haunting “roll call” of valley fires. Powerful piece. Thank you. Jon Hawley Twisp Watch the PUD Dear Editor: Since my introduction to electricity generation, […]
