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Northern Kittitas County TribuneWe are the community newspaper serving Cle Elum, Roslyn, Ronald, South Cle Elum, Easton, Thorp, Lake Cle Elum, Liberty, Mineral Springs, Hyak, Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie Pass, and all of the surrounding “upper” Kittitas County areas.Frequency: The Tribune is published every Thursday. Home delivery is available by mail, and single copies are available for purchase on our website, or on newsstands throughout the county.
Deadlines: The weekly general deadline for advertising copy and news is Tuesdays by noon. Letters to the editor are due by Mondays at 5:00 p.m., and letters sent by the previous Friday, to give adequate time for any needed contact, are appreciated.
Letters to the Editor: Have an opinion you would like to share with our readers? The NKC Tribune welcomes points of view that are well-reasoned, even if they are controversial. We do not publish views that are hateful or preposterous. We will consider letters to the editor or guest editorials for publication if they have a name (for print, no anonymous letters or those on behalf of others printed), address (city and state printed, rest for our contact purposes only) and phone number (for contact only, not printed unless included as an integral part of the letter). Letters under 300 words more likely to be published. We reserve the right to condense and edit letters and guest opinion/editorial pieces. Electronic submission is preferred, or typewritten letters are appreciated. Deadline for submitting letters is Monday, 5:00 p.m., but we prefer submission by the previous Friday to allow us to contact the author, if necessary, prior to publication date, which increases the letter’s chance of being published.
To submit a letter, email us via our feedback page, mail, fax or bring it in to our office. Be sure to include the author’s name, (for guest editorials, profession and title or group affiliation if representing an organization) daytime and evening phone contact information whichever method of submission is used. Return to top of page
)Oahe Specialty PublicationsProduces annual guides and niche publications for the Kittitas County area, which include the annual EXPLORE! Central Cascades Recreation & Entertainment Guide and the Upper Kittitas County Builders’ Guide along with pull-out sections inserted in the NKC Tribune, and other projects.Tribune Office Supply & Printing Your one-stop source for Office Supplies and quality custom printing in Cle Elum. Conveniently located inside the NKC Tribune news office by Safeway Cle Elum. To learn more, please visit the Tribune Office Supply & Printing website.Tribune Web Services Local provider of web hosting, website design, domain name registration, and more. To learn more, please visit the Tribune Web Services website.Oahe Publishing Corp.Parent company to Northern Kittitas County Tribune, Tribune Office Supply & Printing, Tribune Web Services, and Oahe Specialty Publications, which include the annual EXPLORE! Central Cascades Recreation & Entertainment Guide Website: www.oahe.com Principle owners: Jerri Stoner, Jana Stoner and Terry Hamberg.
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Oahe Publishing Corp.
P.O. Box 308
Cle Elum, WA 98922
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UKC Fuels Crews will be burning again on the Ridge Thursday/Friday. Smoke will be visible from Cle Elum and surrounding areas.
Paul’s Trail as well as the Main Ridge Road will be closed as of today to all traffic from the top of Ewok to the top of Rat Pack.
We will be assessing Rat Pack for re-opening today.

On April 7, the Ellensburg City Council approved the Water Street Overlay - Main Street to Bender Project, a 2.34-mile-long grind and overlay with ADA ramps upgraded from Main St. and Manitoba Ave. to Water St. and Bender Road.
A majority of this project is funded by the Federal Highway Administration through the Washington State Department of Transportation. This project will bring 145 ADA ramps to code and upgrade five intersections to the latest video detection equipment, which includes bicycle detection. The project will also consist of grinding 74,000 square yards of old asphalt and overlaying with 10,000 tons of new asphalt. That’s 250 dump trucks of new asphalt!
The contractor will be working 4 days a week, 10 hours a day (no scheduled work on Fridays), and this project is expected to last 5.5 months.
Current Schedule:
• Work starts April 14th with sawcutting at ADA ramps.
• Demo of ADA ramps starts the week of April 21st and will continue until early July. There are 145 ADA ramps to address along with associated concrete and utilities. The plan is to start at Manitoba and Water on the northeast corner and work every other intersection in the northbound direction.
• Roadway utilities will be lowered mid-June in preparation for grinding in mid-July.
• Paving will occur in late July.
• Pavement markings will occur in late August/early September.
The schedule is subject to change.
Visit: www.ellensburgwa.gov/construction for regular updates.
Please travel safe, follow traffic control signage and instructions, and be aware of your surroundings while driving through the project. For questions, call Public Works at (509) 962-7230.