Within the past three months, we have lost two respected friends. Gabe Gonzales and Gil Valenzuela both gave generously from their hearts to these Mountain Communities and to our community’s children. Both lost their lives to covid-19—with their own young children left behind, mourning the loss of their dads.

Community journalism’s mission is to help build and support an informed citizenry, and then to host community dialogue.

Today, a spiral helix of disinformation about the 2020 election has become wrapped around disinformation on social media about medical choices on vaccines as the rate of infection with the highly contagious Omicron variant rises. Local families are at risk in what has become a pandemic of the unvaccinated

Across America, local news editor colleagues are seeing the same tragic and preventable deaths from covid-19 as we have recently seen here. Associated Press has stepped up to offer a rigorous examination of election fraud allegations. We publish that this week in hope it may be a first step to re-open the  local conversation about making wise medical choices disconnected from politics.
—Patric Hedlund, Editor, The Mountain Enterprise

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This is part of the December 24, 2021 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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