Picture of a truck rolling coal past Stand With Us demonstrators on Highway 20. Photo provided by Isabelle Spohn.

It has been one year since the Stand With Us demonstrators began assembling on Saturdays in Twisp along Highway 20, south of the school bus garage, but not everyone is happy about it.

A few people drive buy and intentionally emit what’s called “rolling coal” from their vehicle exhaust. Rolling coal is black soot emitted from diesel engines modified to produce the maximum volume of black smoke. It is used as a form of protest…

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