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Articles from the September 28, 2023 edition


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  • Pleasant Valley School's spirit lives on through wood carving

    Cade Barker, The Reflector|Updated Sep 28, 2023

    Pleasant Valley School's campus sees community identity live on through a wood carving of the school mascot, Buddy the Beaver. When the campus opened in 1976, two red oak trees stood in the front lawn of the primary school. Last spring, an arborist noticed the larger of the two trees was dying, and, for the safety of students and staff, the red oak came down. Principal Craig Pearson knew the tree meant a lot to the identity of the community on the far south side of Battle...

  • The Power of Love

    Don Seabrook, Wenatchee world|Updated Sep 28, 2023

    In an 8-foot by 20-foot metal box near East Wenatchee, five men crowd inside to run electrical cables from one panel to another. They are finishing up a two-month project to electrify a small mission compound in Papua New Guinea some 6,800 miles away. After they are finished, the container will be packed with 2,500 pounds of lithium-ion batteries and 67 solar panels then sent off on a 75-day cruise across the Pacific Ocean arriving in March to Mike and Ruth Butler's Friends...

  • Local Ghost Hunters Document Paranormal Experiences on YouTube

    Eddie Macsalka, Key Peninsula News|Updated Sep 28, 2023

    Derek Grannes and Alex Donahou were tossing back a few drinks at The Floatation Device Pub & Grill near the Purdy Spit last December. Nothing strange about friends of nearly 20 years getting together for some beer and tequila to celebrate the holidays. But then from out of nowhere, Donahou asked Grannes a pretty strange question: "Have you ever wanted to go ghost hunting?" Even stranger: Grannes was about to ask him the same thing. Earlier that month Grannes had a vivid dream...