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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…
Safety in school lockdowns depends on everyone working together
By Jason McGuire I’m the chief with the Eatonville Police Department. In this capacity I also work with the Eatonville School District. The subject of school lockdowns is very serious…
Forum: ‘Big hearts’ fund-raising; Eatonville schools budget
A huge “thank you” to each and every person and business who donated to the Gary Sokol auction and spaghetti feed, the dinner at Elbe Bar and Grill, and who…
Columbia Crest deserves to stay open and keep educating kids
By Ken and Autumn Zentz As parents of a Columbia Crest Elementary School student, we were saddened to hear that closing Columbia Crest is once again a topic on the…
Sequestration’s 5 percent hit on Mount Rainier
By David Graves As we rapidly approach the March 1 edge of the fiscal cliff, or government sequestration, details about how these across-the-board cuts could affect our national parks are…
Forum: Big money and state Senate
Under Initiative 960, any bill introduced in the Legislature that would increase taxpayer expenses must have a 10-year estimate of its cost. Here are two of the latest offerings from the…
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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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