From the Editor,
Readers are always asking editors, "Where do you get your stories?" The easy answer is, "From people, organizations, and businesses that send them in."
However, a few of the articles in this newspaper come from the need to find information. I admit, though, that I love surfing the web, and I'm always curious, which I've learned is a great combination that leads me to all sorts of undreamed of wonders!
Most evenings, after dinner I'm relaxed in my lounger with my laptop on laptop-desk. I check my email for the latest news, format and edit whatever news someone sends me, and then publish the article.
When announcements of upcoming events arrive without a street address of where the event will take place, if I can't locate the address myself, I publish the story, and then email the sender to ask for the address so I can publish it ASAP.
Usually, impatience leads me to check Towns (page), in hopes the town's website will contain the street address I want, or I check the paper's archives. Sometimes I'm lucky. Other times, like this evening, I surf the web, and now and then, stumble on a wonderful story about a Palouse town, and the need to share overtakes me.
Tonight's treasure is a story about Endicott that portrays the rural culture as well as the town. "A one-store town struggles to keep sense of community," By Jack Broom, Seattle Times staff reporter. published in The Seattle Times, Local News.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
Mona Vanek
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