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)
PLUS RECIPES, COMICS, PUZZLES, HOROSCOPE, CALENDAR AND MORE
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