The Times presents our 2016 Christmas Special Edition, a longstanding Times tradition. As we do each year, we present the poems, stories and letters to Santa from students at Waitsburg Elementary School. A hearty thanks goes out to the Waitsburg staff and students for their help in making this issue possible.

This special edition would also not be possible without the support of the many local businesses whose advertising helps make these pages possible. Please consider these companies, large and small, and remember to patronize them in 2017.

The staff at The Times invites you now to share the joy of Christmas as seen through the eyes of local children, in their own words. We wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.

~Ken, Dena, Michele and Teeny