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your homegrown newspaper March 20, 2024
Vol. 20, No. 27
Shenanigans Celebrated PL 280 pg. 5
School sign pg. 6
SUMMER GODDARD / VALLEY JOURNAL
Ronan goes green for 35th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade By Beau Biggs for the Valley Journal
Sports pg. 16
RONAN — The Ronan St. Patrick’s Day parade rolled down Main Street for the 35th time on a sunny, warm afternoon last
Sunday. “The community loves a parade,” said Christy Bockman, one of the event coordinators. A new addition to the parade lineup, the Great Scots Pipes
and Drum group, led the parade with rousing bagpipe music that filled the air. The parade route started at the Ronan Senior Center and continued down Main Street,
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turning down First Avenue SW before getting to US Hwy. 93. Bockman said parade participants set up behind the hospital see page 2