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FRONT PAGE NEWS:

  • Merry Christmas!!– (photo)
  • Cle Elum’s garbage pick-up rates to increase in 2022
  • Santa drops into Roslyn Friday night
  • Santa Tours Ronald Christmas Eve
  • End of an era: South Cle Elum opts out of police contract
  • Salvage and repair work ongoing after bridge collapse at Elk Meadows

STATE & REGIONAL NEWS:

  • Kittitas County Commissioners censure clerk
  • Update on Upper County’s Community Recreation Center project – (photo)
  • COVID news briefs
  • RV fire on Summit View Road – (photo)
  • Would you believe 4,267 I-90 wildlife crossings in 2021? – (photo)
  • DNR opens applications for largest urban and community forestry grant funding cycle in agency history
  • AccuWeather’s white Christmas forecast 2021
  • Shop with a Cop and Firefighter event makes 40 kids smile – (photos)
  • Thorp Fire District Commissioner Jason Badgerow sworn in – (photo)
  • Christmas Party for Children at the Eagles Club – with a twist – (photo)
  • Fly away with a prize in the bird watch photo contest

VOICES:

  • LETTER: No shame, no stigma, no ill feelings at all – Sam Puntenney – Hopesource Ellensburg
  • LETTER: Being a hero and helping someone who is impaired get a safe ride home – Eveline Roy – Target Zero Manager for Region 12
  • EDITORIAL: People helping people – Jim Fossett
  • LETTER: A walk through Tahoma National Cemetery – Ronald Arthur Slater – Cle Elum
  • How in Heaven on Earth do we overcome stress?
  • Frankly Speaking: A Very Merry Polenta, Bagna and Tinsel Christmas, Mt Friends! – (photo)

COMMUNITY:

  • Bird of the month: The Barn Owl– (photo)
  • Problem Solved: I missed my Breeze Airways flight. Does it owe me anything?
  • Court of Appeals affirms: Workers must be paid for work travel
  • Families in need helped by various local groups – (photos)
  • Fun facts about the holiday season
  • Fourteen Washington workers honored for saving lives on the job
  • CALENDAR: What’s Happening, Senior Living, Cle Elum Eagles #649
  • Tribune Rewind…
  • Another NASA first: Parker Solar probe enters Sun’s atmosphere- (photo)
  • LETTER TO THE NORTH POLE  – (photos)

OBITUARIES:

  • James R. O’Brien – 1948-2021
  • Gertrude Keaton
  • John l. Bendetto
  • Yolanda K. Hasson
  • Kathleen L. “Mama Kass” Robblee

SPORTS & SCHOOL

  • School district does it up big with food drive – (photo)
  • Warrior girls beat Kittitas in overtime
  • Warrior boys rack up two more wins
  • Senior Mixed Bowling League
  • SPOTLIGHT ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Gage Ellison – Cle Elum-Roslyn High School – (photo)
  • SPOTLIGHT STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Shelby Jo Wanechek – Easton School – (photo)

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