Publisher & Editor
Don Nelson
Don Nelson has been editor and publisher and reporter and photographer and delivery boy and coffee maker and dishwasher and post hole digger (not really, just threw that one in to see if you are paying attention) and all-around whatever-needs-doing guy since the Fourth of July, 2011, his personal Independence Day (just ask the IRS). Don has worked a lot of places but likes this place and this job the best. He does, however, drive an 8-year-old “rig,” lives in a cabin way outside of town and is learning to love “Methow Time.” Just writing this made him 15 minutes late for something or other.
Reporters & Photographers
Marcy Stamper
Marcy Stamper covers Okanogan County issues, politics, and policy; education; the Public Utility District; and state or national matters that affect the Methow and the county. Marcy also covers land-use and development matters in the Methow and the county, and health and social issues including economics (employment, housing and homelessness, and access to social services).
Along with her colleagues, Marcy shares the News’ reporting about arts and culture and about matters pertaining to fish, water, and river restoration. She is always interested in delving into other topics of local import that arise.
Ralph Schwartz
Ralph Schwartz has worked for newspapers on both sides of the Cascades since 2002, including The Leavenworth Echo, the Lake Chelan Mirror and The Bellingham Herald. He mostly covers politics and government, but he’s written about everything from hip-hop to the local impacts of climate change. Ralph lives in Carlton, sharing his (rented) spread with deer, turkeys and a mama black bear.
Office Manager & Advertising Manager
Tera Evans
Tera Evans manages advertising, subscriptions, classified ads, legal notices, obituaries, inserts and accounts receivable/payable, not to mention she understands the mysteries of QuickBooks and knows where all the supplies are hidden. You also may have seen her delivering our papers each week!
Publication & Ad Designer
MyKenzie Bennett
MyKenzie designs the layout of the newspaper each week, as well as the magazines. She is also our ad designer, and “social media goddess”.
MyKenzie has perfected the phrase “I’m just the designer!”
Contributors
- Rick Lewis – Sports
- Erik Brooks – Hart’s Pass
- Len Baublitz – Editorial cartoons
- Joanna Bastian – Lower Valley
- Shelley Smith Jones – Mazama
- Ashley Lodato – Winthrop
- Anastasia Green – Twisp
- Sue Misao – SueReal
- Solveig Torvik – Hello?
- David Ward – Naked Eye
- Colleen Ramiskey – Senior Center
- Ann McCreary – Contributor
- Sandra Streiby – Contributor
- Mark Eschbach – Distributor
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