Category Archives: Culture

Rainier Independent Film Festival enchants in Ashford

  The 5th Annual Rainier Independent Film Festival brought three days of quality feature films and shorts, plus a bevy of documentaries and cinematic workshops to Ashford this weekend.  However, the festival had to compete with blue skies and blazing … Continue reading

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Newbie in Graham – For a Wild Bunny

by Paula Morris My daughter was on her way to work last Thursday afternoon when she spotted the neighbor’s cat with something “largish” in her teeth.  She slammed on her brakes, took off after the cat, and caught her before … Continue reading

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Japanese TV crew in area filming DB Cooper episode

by Bruce A. Smith A Japanese TV film crew has been in the area this week, and on Thursday they interviewed me on the topic of DB Cooper – the legendary skyjacker who parachuted into the night air over western Washington … Continue reading

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Holiday weekend activites herald lots of summer fun

  Although the Memorial Day Weekend has its origins as a time to commemorate wartime casualties, it has also come to represent the beginning of summer.  We may not have gotten much summertime weather, but the festivals and special events, … Continue reading

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Comedy night at JR Whistle Stop delivers the laughs in Spanaway

  A packed house got their money’s worth of comedy last Thursday at JR’s Whistle Stop restaurant in Spanaway.  Over the past several months, owner John Reynolds (the JR) has brought professional comedy acts to his three-year old restaurant in … Continue reading

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Newbie in Graham – Nuggets of Inspiration

For the past ten months I have been able to claim “Newbie” status here in Graham, Washington, three months of which I have had the privilege of writing for the Mountain News under its hard working, able-bodied editor, Bruce Smith. … Continue reading

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Mariners a powerful magnet for baseball fans throughout region

  Although an unusual six-game winning streak has propelled the Seattle Mariners out of last place in the Western Division, many of the baseball fans heading to Safeco Field these days may not care, ironically, because they’re going to root for … Continue reading

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Cedar Creek Treehouse – a gem in the Ashford woods

  Peering out from the canopy of Douglas firs thickly splayed across the Nisqually River valley near Ashford perches the Cedar Creek Treehouse, a unique one-room hotel that soars fifty feet above the forest floor. The handiwork of Bill Compher … Continue reading

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Bethel seeks county code changes for electronic signs in Frederickson

  The Bethel School District launched its latest effort to win approval for electronic readerboards at last Monday’s Frederickson Land Use Advisory Commission meeting (F-LUAC).

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Bethel holds forum on bullying

  Before a lightly attended, but often impassioned audience, the Bethel School District held an evening forum on bullying, harassment and intimidation May 3.  Held at Bethel High School, site of pronounced racial strife a few years ago, the forum … Continue reading

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