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Celebrating National Library Week
What brings you joy? For me, it’s driving through our beautiful region to visit our branch libraries, serving ice …
Circus raises questions about animal acts
The Culpepper & Meriweather Circus is making the rounds in the Northwest, having visited Cle Elum and Kittitas this past week. Soap Lake was their stop in Grant County last night. Organizers tout the event as a one…
Grant Integrated Services has gotten scary
Grant County Mental Health plus PARC equals disaster for the mentally ill. It makes sense when you consider that lots of junkies are mental.
Thanks for a great powwow article
I would like to thank Rodney Harwood for his wonderfully informative and color picture-filled article on June 5 in the Columbia Basin Herald regarding the Soap Lake Powwow. I suspect it attracted many an eye for ad…
Keep teens away from alcohol this summer
We are concerned with the health and safety of Moses Lake teens.
A holy calling to get good sleep
When I was younger, I considered myself to be a night owl. I was convinced that my best ideas and creativity came later on in the day. I often would work on im…
SDA church to host fun run and walkathon
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church will hold its Fun Run/Walkathon on Sunday, June 4 at Crestview Christian School, 1601 W. Valley Rd. in…
A conversation with Ecclesiastes
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Applying for the open position
I have a job application in my hands.
Springfest kicks off summer
Unless you've been hiding under a rock (or just haven't been in Moses Lake), you've seen a lot of activity at McCosh Park and Lions Field the last few days. That's the preparations for Springfest, the blowout celeb…
Alumni Association offers lots of opportunity to serve
The Moses Lake Alumni Association (MLAA) has been quietly serving Moses Lake graduates for 10 years. Since 2007, the MLAA has provided $142,900 in scholarships to 140 students who attended school in Moses Lake. The…
Numbers don't lie in Trump election
Based solely on his belief, the president created a commission to investigate the voter fraud of 3-5 million illegal ballots cast for Hillary Clinton. He has asserted that he would have won the popular vote were it…
Leviathans come in all sizes
“There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.”
Freedom of speech?
The Columbia Basin Herald changed the policy regarding Letters to the Editor several weeks ago. Now only one letter is allowed per month. This restricts people who want to address problems in our community, and oft…
Trump's Mar-a-Lago trips expensive and wasteful
In 2015, Trump said he would “rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done.” Now, he is golfing and visiting a Trump-branded property every few days.
Reasons for hope on climate change
Why I’m hopeful we can stop climate change: