• Students Honor Veterans – (photo)
  • Weis resigns from Parks and Rec Board
  • Nature Conservancy working with Law enforcement to prevent Prohibited use of its landholdings
  • Pedestrian killed on SR970
  • Walter Strom Middle School among ten organizations to receive STEM grant

STATE & REGIONAL NEWS:

  • Spectacular Zoo Lights Show
  • Open Enrollment advisory
  • BPA rate proposal
  • WA retail sales up
  • k-12 voter turnout record in mock election
  • Future of BLM’s renewable Energy program
  • EPA updates standards for toxic pollutants in WA
  • Black Friday fishing
  • 48.7M predicted to travel for Thanksgiving
  • Washington draft education plan
  • Safeway construction crews up against the seasonal clock
  • Enterprise Challenge Business Plan 2017 Contest kicks off soon
  • Whooping cough diagnosed in two Ellensburg schools
  • Cle Elum restrooms closed for renovations

VOICES:

  • Frankly Speaking – I Yam what I am, a sweet potato story
  • Letter: Hoosiers lessons for Cle Elum/Roslyn girls’ volleyball – (Lisa Thurgood – Cle Elum)
  • Letter:  Votes matter – (Jerry Spriggs – West Linn, OR)
  • Celebrating 127 years of the Evergreen State – (Congressman Dan Newhouse)
  • A commitment to prevention – (Susan Johnson Regional Director, US Department of Health and Human Services Region 10)
  • Why were the presidental polls wrong? – ( Dr. Gary Welton)

COMMUNITY:

  • Cooke Canyon Hunt Club – patridge n’ pheasant heaven
  • Recipe for Herb-crusted pheasant with cranberry-orange butter
  • Tony Davey donates to preschool kids fundraiser
  • Graham settling into county EMS role
  • Hand carved eagle perches overhead
  • Carpenter memorial library improved
  • Kapaska graduates from boot camp
  • Host needed for visiting Japanese student
  • Chamber opens incubator in Ellensburg
  • Enter the 2017 teen video challenge
  • Life after 80: Bev Allenbaugh
  • name change for Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital
  • Thanksgiving turkey fun facts
  • New Rodeo board member announced
  • Pettit elected to WACO board

OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES:

  • No obituaries this week

SPORTS & SCHOOL:

  • Local Veterans receive heartfelt appreciation and gratitude during assembly
  • Veterans roll call
  • Vanessa Geiger retires after 23 years of volleyball coaching
  • Athlete of the Week: Owen Dodge (Easton School)
  • Student of the Week: Kaleigh Rainwater (Cle Elum-Roslyn School)
  • PLUS RECIPES, COMICS, PUZZLES, HOROSCOPE, CALENDAR AND MORE!