The Wenatchee Valley is losing two highly effective and prolific community builders with the departure of Gil and Kay Sparks, who with little fanfare and great humility have made enormous contributions to civic life...
Jeff Neher, the long-time managing partner of Cordell, Neher and Co., is retiring after more than four decades of public accounting, after creating a rich legacy of business leadership and community service. Neher is...
What can we do in our communities to help small local business owners ride out the Coronavirus pandemic? It was difficult in March and April but it’s getting a lot more challenging as the...
My friend Dr. June Darling has a wonderful habit of passing along nuggets of interesting perspective and wisdom. She has disciplined herself to apply a relentlessly constructive mindset to challenges — a practice that...
One inescapable and disturbing fact about our education system is that children from wealthy families who start school will end up near the top of the academic ladder as high school seniors, while kids...
Jim Telford made quite an impact in this valley as a business owner and civic leader, and I was honored to hear more about his life during a recent interview. Jim and three other...
There’s going to be a special celebration for the late May Segle on Sept. 12, 11 a.m. at Entiat City Park. May, who passed away in July, was a true force of nature and...
A young woman with deep connections to the Wenatchee Valley, Zoe Gotthold, has won a prestigious national science award — the 2020 U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize — because of her work on reducing...
Dr. David Notter has had a long and soulful connection with his violin and found that playing music complemented his practice as an oncologist and his growth as a human being. At times in...
This is a follow-up conversation with Dr. David Notter, the retired cancerdoctor in North Central Washington and we focus on how playing music has helpedhim through some tough times and helped his patients and...