Thursday, October 1, 2026
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Nodding to the ghosts of Christmas past, Theater Artists Olympia (TAO), for one night only on Dec. 19, will engage in the immortal 16th century ...
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By Rachel Benton
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12/8/25
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At recent Port of Olympia meetings, the conversation has focused on how to make the waterfront “pay for itself.” Commissioners have ...
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The day after Thanksgiving, a dandelion bloomed in the front yard. On the first of December, a charming but invasive flower called ...
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December heralds the darkest season of the year. When I get home from work, it’s so dark that the local great-horned owls have already begun ...
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Prior to attending this performance, I reached out to my friends to see who among them has either never attended the ballet, or attended so ...
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By Rachel Benton
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12/3/25
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"Saving the Nisqually Delta," by Olympia-based journalist Janine Gates, tells how one of Washington state’s most fragile and ecologically ...
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“It's coming on Christmas, they're cutting down trees. They're putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace. Oh, I wish I had a ...
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By Rachel Benton
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12/2/25
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In 1970, when the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created, William Ruckelshaus, its founding administrator, said ...
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Thanksgiving is the sole American holiday whose name tells us exactly what we are meant to do. This Thanksgiving ...
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By Jim Friedlich
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11/27/25
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This is the final of a series of three columns about bird feeders, for readers who are considering putting one up, and for those who want to ...
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As we approach Thanksgiving and all the other holidays that follow, society wants us to join the hustle and bustle of commercialism and rush to buy ...
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By Rachel Benton
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11/26/25
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This week our column is going to be about animal movies, but we were asked to make a request by our Friends of JAS ...
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By Trish Lynn and Thom Donitz
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11/25/25
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It has been four hundred and four years since the first Thanksgiving in 1621! During that three-day event in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 50 pilgrims ...
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On Saturday night, Nov. 15, my mom and I had the honor of watching Studio West Dance Academy’s “The Nutcracker” dress rehearsal, and it was a really ...
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By Rachel Benton
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11/24/25
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Looking out the kitchen window, a sudden surprise filled my eyes: the sky, bold and bare, was emptied of maple, black locust and cherry tree ...
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Just as a shadow grows bigger when the light moves closer to the object, so does the blatant truth of history repeating itself when we allow fascism into our government and society. The larger that …
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In Part 1 of this bird feeder advice, I wrote “you provide it and they will come.” I was thinking about birds, but the same is likely true for squirrels ...
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Our community has known and cherished both the Captain Little toy store and Compass Rose for many years, and we owe an abundant thank ...
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By Rachel Benton
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11/19/25
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I’ve never felt so loved by this community as I have this week, and I’ve never needed that love more. Readers of this column have been a light in this ...
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They say you cannot judge a book by its cover, but if we did judge it on some level, there would be no point of cover art or any visually ...
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By Rachel Benton
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11/18/25
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