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POMEROY––Two projects here are underway, the Pomeroy City Council heard at its January 5 meeting. The Gazebo Restoration Project at the City Park was started on December 29 and the Fifth Street Lift Station repair projects is underway. Concrete has been poured and, moving forward, the Gazebo project appears to have a week or two to go, discussion indicated. Council was told there has been some concern expressed about the paint colors of the gazebo. Mayor Paul Miller asked Council members to thi...
By Loyal Baker POMEROY––State auditors will likely include a “finding” in their report, Chief James Cleveland informed Garfield County Fire Commissioners January 12. Auditors requested additional information, Cleveland said, concerning a revolving account with a debit card that had been established at the former Pomeroy US Bank by former chief Kris Darby. “Because it’s a government entity, you really couldn’t have it, so what the former chief did was put it in his name, the ‘Chief Kris Darby Revolving Account,’” said Deedee Weymouth, District...
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill...
Inslee’s Unemployment Insurance tax recovery plan expands costs so much it will drive the proverbial stake through the heart of small business, stopping whatever remaining beats business in Washington State has left, killing it once and for all. If he thinks utilizing the Senate Bill 5061, which only spreads the huge tax increase over a longer period of time, will make it better, he isn’t thinking clearly. Employers have shouldered the majority of cutbacks, payouts for no work, lack of revenue due to shutdowns, increases of having emp...
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Dr. Fosse, once of Pretoria, told me about Martha and Arthur, two star crossed rare white rhinos. In a governmental gesture of goodwill, South Africa agreed to ship Arthur to Tanzania to mate with Martha. Brilliant veterinarians, competent game management officials, long-winded reproductive specialists and the press discussed at length the procedures involved and the benefits that would accrue with these international relations. They soon discovered that rhinos cycle according to the length of...
For years Washington's Department of Commerce has highlighted the state not having an income tax as being a competitive advantage for employers. Surprisingly, Commerce recently updated its "Choose Washington" website to remove the reference about the state not having an income tax on its "Pro-Business" webpage. Commerce's sudden removal is contrary to years of statements acknowledging that no income tax was a powerful inducement to locate business in the state. When testifying on SB 5096 (9%...
To the editor, Some of us from the other side of the political spectrum wondered has Garfield county always been so exclusively supportive of the Republican party as it is today. It led to some research on the voting history of the county. The first presidential election vote in the county took place in 1892. There has been a total of 33 presidential elections in this county. The county has voted the same as the State of Washington 76% of the time and the same as the nation 76% of the time including through the election of 1988. This includes...
Garfield County Hospital District is proud to announce November Employee of the Month, Mary Herres, R.N. She was nominated by her co-workers who state, "She is loved and respected by residents and employees." She was born and raised in the rural town of Sibely, Iowa. At age 13, she relocated to Kamiah, Id., and graduated from Kamiah High School in 1983. Her first job experience was working with the Forest Service through the Idaho Youth Conservation Corps, restoring trails for two summers...
POMEROY–WSU Extension in the Blue Mountain region and the Columbia County Weed Board are co-hosting a regional Weed Management and Cereal Grain Conference On-line on Thursday, January 28, 2021 from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–3 p.m. on Zoom. There is no charge to participate in the conference. Five WSDA and five Oregon Department of Ag pesticide re-certification credits have been applied for. Participants must sign into the meeting and register between 8:45–9 a.m. on January 28; be present for entire presentation to receive credits. Verific...
Expanding the power of decision By Sen. Mark Schoesler OLYMPIA–Senator Mark Schoesler is co-sponsor of bill SB 5039, to reform the emergency-powers law by making all proclamations subject to legislative approval after 30 days. Governor Inslee have made two kinds of proclamations during this pandemic using powers granted by state law after a state of emergency has been declared. The bans on inside dining and other activities are done with proclamations which prohibit such; the other proclamations suspend certain laws such as renewal of d...
POMEROY–COVID-19 vaccines should arrive here this week. Upon the shipment arrival, appointment scheduling and immunization for healthcare worker only can begin. For now, Garfield Health District (GHD) and Garfield County Hospital District (GCHD) are planning for mass vaccination by securing staff and space. Presently, GHD and GCHD have been notified State Guidance for B1 vaccine eligibility has been extended to 65 years and older. More information will be available in next week’s East Washingtonian newspaper and breaking news is available on...
Ten Years Ago January 19, 2011 Members of the Washington State Fairs Association, including the Garfield County Fair board, are urging voters to contact legislators to stop a proposed budget cut from Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire that would cut the state Fair Fund from $4 million to $1 million for the 2011-13 budget, and take $1.2 million out of the current balance in the Fair Fund. Taking weight class wrestling championships at the Royal Rumble Tournament in Royal City were Tory Knebel, Wyatt Jenkins and Austin Reisdorph. Twenty-Five Year...
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) expressed her point of view after voting against the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump. "I analyzed the Article of Impeachment through the lens that has guided my decision-making throughout my time in Congress: the oath I took to support and defend the Constitution. The Article presented before the House centers around whether President Trump's words directly incited the violence that took place at the U...
By Sen. Mark Schoesler, Rep. Joe Schmick and Rep. Mary Dye OLYMPIA–Just as 2020 will always be remembered as the "COVID-19 year," the 2021 legislative session already is being recalled as one in which nearly everything was done remotely, preventing the public from accessing the Legislature in person and hampering citizens' ability to fully connect with the legislative process. This year's 105-day session began January 11. Legislative sessions typically begin with plenty of excitement and a...