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  • Poland and America heading in opposite directions

    Don C. Brunell, president|Updated Aug 23, 2012

    Poland and the U.S. are like two trains passing each other in opposite directions. Poland broke the shackles of Soviet domination two decades ago with the rise of Lech Walesa and the Solidarity labor movement. Free for the first time since World War II, Poland cast off its yoke of government control and central planning in favor of an American-style free enterprise system. Today, Poland is the European Union’s largest eastern economy, the only member of the 27-nation bloc to avoid a recession in 2009. While most of E...

  • Lind-Ritzville students begin classes Aug. 27

    Updated Aug 23, 2012

    Monday, Aug. 27, marks the first day back to school for Lind-Ritzville students as well as the beginning of the academic cooperative. The start of school is the first time when students will attend Lind-Ritzville High School in Ritzville and Lind-Ritzville Middle School in Lind. The Lind and Ritzville school boards are meeting for the regular monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday in the Ritzville Grade School gymnasium....