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POMEROY–The Garfield County Board of Commissioners (BOCC) signed an interlocal agreement with Jamestown Networks (JNET) for installation and service of an internet and voice over internet phone system for the County Courthouse at their meeting on May 3. County Engineer Grant Morgan gathered information, communicated between the departments involved, and worked to bring the agreement to fruition. The BOCC passed Resolution 2021-11, transferring $25,000 from the current expenses fund to the f...
POMEROY–The District School Board approved policy 3241 regarding student discipline in an effort to minimize student removal from class, and policy 3432 relating to emergency drills, with one drill a month required during the recent meeting on April 27. The board went on to discussed the seventh grade six week curriculum course called “Making Healthy Decisions for the 21st Century” defining sexual assault behavior and providing ways to stop it. Parents are free to opt their children out of an...
Restricted area on West Capitol Campus no longer in place; fence to be removed OLYMPIA–An order restricting access to portions of West Capitol Campus since January is no longer in place, and that means fencing surrounding the area will come down. Removal work is scheduled for Tuesday morning May 4. Moffitt, USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs WASHINGTON D.C.–Jenny Moffitt, who presently serves as Undersecretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, will be nominated to serve as United State Department of...
OLYMPIA–House Bill 1091, the proposed "high-cost fuel standard" to improve the climate. Was passed on the final day of session, April 25, 2021. During my long drive home to Ritzville from Olympia on Monday, I stopped in Cle Elum for a short break. As I watched other drivers fuel up their vehicles at gas stations, I felt bad for them. Most of them aren't even aware that buying gas or diesel will be much more expensive in the coming years. That's because the Democratic majorities in the L...
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken...
For those of you who forgot how easy it was to get started in farming let me tell you about my friend Con. Many years ago, he bought a farm in the wilds of Minnesota. The feller that sold him the farm had his farm sale the day Con arrived to take possession of the land. Now, Con had been a cowboy type all his life and, upon viewing the farm machinery stacked in the yard, he was hard put to identify anything other than the handy man jack and a tractor. But he thought if this stuff was good...
As I gladly readjust to normal life in Ritzville after spending nearly every day of the past four months in Olympia, I have good news and bad news to report. The good news is that the 2021 legislative session ended on time last Sunday. April 25, 2021. In fact, we finished for good early that evening, before darkness fell on Olympia. In my nearly 30 years as a legislator, there have been only a few times when a legislative session adjourned in daylight. Unfortunately, this session was very bad...
Public records show lawmakers plan to use the capital gains income tax to set up a lawsuit to try to impose a broad-based graduated income tax. They’re going to get not one but two lawsuits from citizens fighting the unconstitutional income tax. It could be years, however, before we know if the state Supreme Court decides to uphold its numerous rulings saying that you own your income or if they’ll instead reverse course and take the bait from income tax supporters. Just days after the legislature adopted SB 5096 (income tax on capital gai...
OLYMPIA–A key bill for agriculture, Senate Bill 5172, took a bumpy route before being passed by the Legislature during the final weekend. Senate Bill 5172, introduced by one of my Republican colleagues, 14th District Sen. Curtis King of Yakima, attempted to defuse a potential time bomb caused by a recent court ruling that could cause a devastating problem for Washington’s dairy industry and other parts of our state’s economy. For 60 years, state law exempted the agriculture industry from payin...
CHENEY–Two Pomeroy High School grads were named to the Eastern Washington University Dean's List for Winter Quarter, 2021. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours and receives a GPA of 3.5 or better is placed on the Dean's List. Named were Evan Bartels and Toni Cloud....
Ten Years Ago May 4, 2011 Garfield County Sheriff’s deputies responded Sunday afternoon to 911 calls from fishermen who found a body on the shore of the Snake River between Willow Landing and Central Ferry. There was no identification on the body. Idaho State Police have taken over the investigation because that department is investigating two missing person’s cases, and this could match the identity of one of those cases. Lonnie and Inez Cannon of Pomeroy won KHQ-TV and The Davenport Hotel’s “Marital Moments” photo contest held during the mont...
Chris Salcedo interviewed A.F. Branco on the national conservative network, Newsmax, discussing the Biden Address, LeBron James, the Rudy Giuliani raid and Wokeness. Salcedo opened the segment, which aired on Newsmax on May 2, pointing out that Nielsen ratings of president Joe Biden's address to Congress last week had less than 27 million tuned in over 16 networks, while many 2017 addresses by former president Donald Trump pulled viewership of 50 million, on 11 networks. He then introduced A.F....
POMEROY––Junior Pirate pole vaulter Colton Slaybaugh set a new school record–and a personal best–and vaulted into the top position in the state 1B standings with a 14-5.5 effort here Tuesday, April 27. He also broke the tape in first place in the 100 m dash, and his PR in that event puts him in seventh place in state rankings. This Friday will be the District 7-9 Outdoor Track and Field EWA Championships at Ritzville High School, with the first event at noon. Slaybaugh's mark puts him 11.5 in...
CORVALLIS, ORE.–The Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) named 2019 Pomeroy graduate Deana Caruso one of Lewis Clark State College's selections to First-Team, All-Conference for Women's Golf last week. Caruso, a sophomore, and junior golfer Alexandra Schmidt joined the team's top golfer, Lauren Hamm, on the first-team, along with Carlos Davila, from the Men's program. Hamm was named the CCC Golfer of the Year. The CCC uses the three regular-season conference tournaments held in the spring as w...