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WENATCHEE - The 2023 AI (Artificial Intelligence) Expo, hosted collaboratively by the NCW Tech Alliance, North Central ESD, and the Apple STEM Network, will be held from 12:30-5 p.m. on Thursday, August 17, at the Wenatchee Convention Center. This year marks a significant milestone as the AI Expo...
Terry Ward and Amy Yaley of Ward Media LLC, have purchased NCW Media Inc. The newspapers involved in the transaction include The Leavenworth Echo, Cashmere Valley Record, Lake Chelan Mirror, Quad City Herald, and the Wenatchee Business Journal.
NCW Media Inc., a prominent media company in North Central Washington, has finalized the sale of its five well-established local newspapers to Ward Media LLC, owned by Terry Ward and Amy Yaley. The newspapers involved in the transaction include The Leavenworth Echo, Cashmere Valley Record, Lake...
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In a July 25 meeting, the Leavenworth City Council tabled the motion to sign a letter of intent to investigate a proposed land swap with Willkommen LLC owner Thomas Lin. Over 100 people attended the meeting in person and via Zoom. The conversation resolved around the City’s desire for a year-round...
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Hospitals across the state of Washington did not have it easy in 2022. According to data from the Washington State Hospital Association, hospitals in our state posted collective losses of $2.7 billion dollars.
Thankfully for the Upper Valley community, Cascade Medical was not one of them.
In 2022,...
Chumstick Highway Phase V: The road improvement project between Plain and Leavenworth begins Monday, Aug. 7. A contractor for the county will be working between milepost 5.15 to milepost 6.60 (starting at the end of the previous phase constructed in 2014 and ending just north of the Chumstick...
DaveTosch and Mariachi Noroeste with their Kindness banner at the Wenatchee Senior Center for Cinco de Mayo. Photo Submitted by Gene Sharratt
WENATCHEE— Charles Dickens published his classic A Christmas Carol in December 1943. The masterpiece’s opening stave shows Fred exhorting his Uncle Scrooge to view Christmas as the only time in the long calendar of the year “when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely...
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OLYMPIA - The BLS estimates Washington’s preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June 2023 is 3.8 percent. The revised estimated May 2023 unemployment rate is 4.1 percent. According to BLS estimates, the number of unemployed people fell by 10,500 in June 2023 compared to May 2023. At...
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Drug education and prevention work; it's proven effective. Parents' or caregivers' early conversations with their kids make a real difference. Amid the opioid epidemic, these conversations have become critical.
Fentanyl and fentanyl analogs are found in most drugs and are even made to look like...
Goodwin Road/Sunset Road Improvement Project: The project remains on schedule, with the temporary closure of Sunset Road between its intersections with Mill Road, were lifted July 12. The roadway will be at one lane, with flaggers directing traffic. In addition, motorists will encounter one-lane,...
Ward Media Newspapers
- The Leavenworth Echo | Leavenworth, WA
- Cashmere Valley Record | Cashmere WA
- Lake Chelan Mirror | Chelan, Manson, Entiat, WA
- Quad City Herald | Brewster, Pateros, Bridgeport, Mansfield, WA
- Wenatchee Business Journal | Chelan, Douglas, Okanogan Counties, WA