Halloween Celebrations Flood City – Boo Elum on October 31 – front page photo/A7

South Cle Elum approves standard 1% property tax hike – front page/A5

Historic change in water resource management coming Dec. 7 – front page/A5

A fond farewell to hardware store owner Bob Harper – front page/A8 (photo)

REGIONAL:

  • Health plan rate change
  • Crackdown on e-cigarettes
  • Hornets kill camper
  • Unofficial (Nov. 3) general election results
  • New mural project officially complete (on South Cle Elum Way) after dedication ceremony (photos)
  • Scott weighs in on Roslyn’s 2016 budget
  • Tacoma woman hurt in crash on Tuesday
  • Celebrating William Craven Day (photo)
  • Legislators meet with public Nov. 9
  • Rain and diesel slick combine to cause major I-90 backup Friday
  • Darrow gets 68 months
  • Kittitas County Commissioners consider an Admissions Tax

BUSINESS:

  • Roslyn sandwiches named as some of the ‘Best in the State’
  • Cle Elum CPA firm moves to Oakes Avenue suite (Carigen’s Certified Public Accountants)
  • Inland Networks offers free smoke detectors to customers
  • Focus on retirees: What ‘the bull’ learned from farming the family homestead (Curtis Bull)
  • Helping fund student field trips (photo) – Windy Chevrolet presents $500 check to Thorp School
  • (Stacy) Walker joins crew at The Last Resort
  • (Rep.) Manweller to speak on Common Core Standards
  • Significant rate decrease for Washington natural gas customers

VOICES:

  • Frankly Speaking – “A Clean & Green Holiday Kitchen” (making your own home cleaners)
  • Letter: Let’s take some pride in out public restrooms please (Lisa French)
  • Drowsy and drunk driving are the same
  • Area schools hosting Veterans Day assemblies next week

COMMUNITY:

  • I communicate to my son, the Metal Man, through the medium of music (Asperger’s Syndrome)
  • Free geology field trip – CWU professor Nick Zentner leads trip to Lower Grand Coulee
  • ‘Where I-90 meets I-82 exhibit opens today (Sarah Spurgeon Gallery)
  • The giving season is on, food bank in Easton needs your help
  • Grange Country Christmas Bazaar coming Nov. 4
  • Nick Maupoux to direct Mountain Voices
  • Operation Christmas Child in Ellensburg

OBITUARIES & DEATH NOTICES:

  • John H. Adams
  • Charles Michael Barr
  • Norman Matthew Mohar
  • Dorothy Mae Roletto
  • Gloria Jane Willis Scott
  • Cindy Christine Harrison Steiner (death notice)
  • M.D. ‘Bill’ Stone

SPORTS & SCHOOL:

  • Rinaldi qualifies for state cross country tournament
  • UCK Men’s 8-Ball Pool League
  • Second grader Miranda Barr talks about life and school
  • CER soccer finishes their season with loss to LaSalle
  • Athlete of the Week: Zuley Perez, Cle Elum-Roslyn School
  • Student of the Week: Taylor Hotchkiss, Cle Elum-Roslyn High School
  • Cle Elum-Roslyn High School Football: Sanchez, Hawk combine of almost 400 rushing yards in 49-36 win over Granger
  • First school concerts of the year (photos)
  • Volleyball gets one win out of last two games of season
  • Still on the Radar: Evan Schmitt in Pittsburg