Imagine living in a home without a computer. Or access to broadband internet. Imagine your family’s only connection to the internet is a smartphone with a data plan that is prohibitively expensive. Now imagine your kids — both of them —need to get their education through that smartphone. But…
The high rate of COVID-19 infections among the Latino population in Yakima County didn’t take me by surprise. Knowing well that poor dissemination of news in Spanish still exists, it was just a matter of time before we would see the adverse effects on our community.
This is the time right now when young people from every grade level in our local schools would be going through all the rites of passage that are familiar to us in concluding the latest cycle of a school year. We all know June as the time when students are gathering in classrooms for those l…
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To the editor — In view of the fact that only three assisted-living facilities in the Yakima area have been COVID-19 free, the staff at Blossom Place has done a good job of shielding us from c…
To the editor — On June 24, Selah held a special session to decide how to how to address issues with our city administrator, Don Wayman. The decision was to take no action.
To the editor — The paper tells us how many people are being checked for the virus every day. My question: Is there any follow-up on the folks who test positive? What percent of the people act…
To the editor — There are so many good reasons to not wear a mask.
To the editor — When landlords were under fire in Olympia earlier this year, we went to Rep. Jeremie Dufault from Selah for help.
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