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Tamara Lee Titus
December 3, 2025
The Woodland Theatre, built in Kettle Falls in 1940, is the main performance site for Woodland Productions, a nonprofit community of local performing artists. Thanks to donations from grants, Friends of Woodland Theatre, and other major donors, the theatre now has the funds needed to complete upgrades.
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Meredith Carroll
November 19, 2025
Glaze It Up Pottery is the new Colville-based pottery painting business that brings ceramics to their customers. “I pull up, I set up, and I bring the pottery, the glaze (paint), the paint brushes, and the paint pallets,” said Glaze It Up Pottery owner Heather Fryer. “I even bring the garbage bags to haul away the trash.
Bruce Rushton
January 21, 2026
Stevens County commissioners said they are scaling back plans for a new jail and courtroom facility two years after voters approved taxes to pay for a justice center adjacent to the existing courthouse.
“(W)e can’t build the building that we want,” Commission Chairman Greg Young said at a board meeting called to discuss the project on Jan. 15. “Like I said, it’s too darn expensive.”
Meredith Carroll
January 21, 2026
“Every child is an artist.”
It is Donna Matter’s heartfelt belief that all children contain untapped creativity and that it is her purpose to provide them with an outlet.
The Kettle Falls Children’s Art Program, located at the Kettle Falls Library, was launched 10 years ago by Donna Matter and her husband, George Matter.
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Feb. 4 & 11, 2026
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Feb. 4, 2026
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Feb. 4, 2026
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Senior Citizens' Center
Feb. 4, 9 & 11, 2026
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302 E Main Ave, Chewelah, WA 99109, USA
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Colville Library
Feb. 4 & 11, 2026
10:30-11:30 a.m.
195 S Oak St, Colville, WA 99114, USA
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Kettle Falls Library
Feb. 4 & 11, 2026
3-4 p.m.
605 Meyers St, Kettle Falls, WA 99141, USA
Call: 509-684-1475.
Bingo
Kettle Falls High School
Feb. 4 & 11, 2026
5:30 p.m.
1275 Juniper St, Kettle Falls, WA 99141, USA
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Kettle Falls Library
Feb. 4 & 11, 2026
11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
605 Meyers St, Kettle Falls, WA 99141, USA
February 4, 2026
Walter Stichart
Colville
To the Editor:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Since 1941, I've made that pledge, before and after the amendment, over 2,000times. It always ended the same way. "with liberty and justice for all."
Anyone who has recited the pledge even once should learn that the full meaning of being American is to be "one without prejudice" – one who even pledges "liberty and justice for all." And who pledges – with even greater force – as a citizen of a "Nation under God."
Unfortunately, some citizens no longer take the pledge seriously, and even some of the leadership of our country, having taken the pledge, violate it. This is the time for someone in Congress to take a stand.
Fortunately, there is an increasing number of citizens with signs and banners, whose presence protest injustice, crying loudly "liberty and justice for all." Someone once said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Births
Miles Lee Flanigan was born on Jan. 21, 2026, to parents Alicia and Phillip Flanigan of Valley, Wash. He weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces at birth, and has two brothers: Oliver, age 6, and Henry, age 4. His maternal grandparents are Rob and Pam Murrow of Wahiawa, Hawaii. His paternal grandparents are Dan and Karen Flanigan of Deer Park, Wash.
Births
Lina Jazmin Vega was born on Jan. 10, 2026, to parents Madeline and Luis Vega Benitez of Colville, Wash. She weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces at birth, and has one sister, Arabella Vega, age 3. Her maternal grandparents are Jeff and Michelle Michaelson of Wallace, Idaho. Her paternal grandparents are Luis Vega and Petrona Benitez of Paraguay. Her maternal great-grandparents are Leon and Jennilynn Benson of Colville, Wash.
Births
Jace Alexzander Kade Ruiz was born on Jan. 9, 2026, to parents Jennifer Buffan and Jose Ruiz-Stroder of Colville, Wash. He weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce at birth, and has two brothers, Okecr, age 3, and Damon, age 3, and one sister, Phoebe, age 11. His maternal grandparents are Pamela and Daniel Miller of Colville, Wash. His paternal grandparents are Mary Ruiz-Rodriguez and Chris Barns of Valley, Wash.
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