OUR TOWN
SUMMER LIVING story by Marcus Goble photos by Jakob Burnham design by Makayla Zayic
You swear you can hear the lasting echoes of “Pomp and Circumstance” off the empty dorms. Hot sun rays bounce off the once hectic parking lot, absent of cars. The campus resembles what many describe as a ghost town. Many of the students at Central Washington University leave Ellensburg for the summer. How do the small businesses of Ellensburg survive the long days of summer without the students to hold them up?
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SPRING 2023