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It’s onward and upward for our Teen Focus contributors
PAT JENKINS Dispatch editor Kids grow up and move on – and sometimes stop writing newspaper columns. Both apply to Lydia Nyhuis and Corrie Morgan. Readers have become accustomed the…
Keep our county open for business, employment and financial stability
By Jim McCune Thank you for this opportunity to respond to an op-ed written by a Mr. Josh Magill in the April 17 issue (“County road closure makes some sense,…
Forum: Where are the big hearts?
Remember the “small town, big hearts” era in Eatonville? I still have my t-shirt with hearts. We were all proud of the way we took care of our own. But…
Marketing mountain and communities is a worthy investment
By Mary Kay Nelson National parks continue to be important, even critical economic engines for local communities, with visitors generating $30.1 billion in economic activity and supporting 252,000 jobs nationwide…
In reducing school expenses, some luxuries just aren’t affordable
By Robert Fincham Eatonville School District is operating in the red. The student enrollment has been dropping for years with no signs of any future reversal of this trend. It…
Museum of Flight expands horizons of local students
By Shannon Steedman For all its beautiful airplanes and great educational programs, what the Museum of Flight does best is inspire. As an educator, I’m constantly on the lookout for…
Selling property won’t help school district’s budget
By Paulette Gillardi I would like to begin by thanking everyone who has attended public meetings, written letters and e-mails and made phone calls to the School Board to give…
Some loosening in the blockade on library e-books
By Neil Parikh This winter, Pierce County Library System asked residents to take its frustration about e-book offerings directly to the six major publishers. At the time, the book publishers…
Forum: Be heard on Columbia Crest
I am writing this letter to encourage everyone that I know to please let the School Board members of Eatonville School District know how you feel about them potentially closing…
Forum: Trash, abortion and taxes
I enjoy receiving and reading The Dispatch each week. I applaud the Teen Focus column from Lydia Nyhuis (Feb. 27) regarding the “thoughtless or careless” individual who threw a bag…
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Community remembers 9/11 victims and rolls up sleeves
By Nancy Ardmore Contributing writer Last Saturday morning at 9 o’clock, while 178 people from the Eatonville area looked on, a special U.S. flag was raised on the Eatonville High School flag pole. What made this flag special was that the stripes on the flag contained all of the names of the victims who died [...]
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