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POMEROY––The Garfield County Board of Commissioners (BOCC) approved the Garfield County Health District accepted plan for this year's "restructured" Garfield County Fair events, as submitted by the Fair Board with one exception: RV camping. The Fair Board and Health District recommended the RV park remain closed for Fair weekend. The BOCC contended the area should be available families participating in the livestock show and sale as a space to retreat between shows because congregating in pub...
GARFIELD COUNTY–The Rattlesnake Fire is burning in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness on the Pomeroy Ranger District, approximately twenty miles south of Pomeroy and thirteen miles southeast of Dayton. The fire is burning in a fifteen-year old fire scar which left a mosaic of vegetation and is approximately 486 acres in size. Higher winds from a passing cold front on Saturday tested fire containment lines. Residual heat in heavier fuels remains on the north end near Panjab Campground, and on the s...
POMEROY–The 2020 Garfield County Fair is being restructured due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A youth livestock show and sale will be held in its place on September 17-19. Attendance will be limited to pre-registered exhibitors and household members, Garfield County Fair Board members, Garfield County Market Sale Association members, and support staff, but will not be open to the general public. All entrants will be required to wear a mask and a no Touch temperature checks will be taken at the gate. Each exhibitor is allowed one animal to show a...
POMEROY–Troop 262 replaced and raised a new American flag at the front of the local Emergency Response Station at a evening ceremony on August 26. "Troop 262 were given the extreme honor to remove a flag no longer fit for service from our local volunteer Emergency Response Station," said Scoutmaster Joe Turner. "Along with the removal of our nations banner, we were also asked to raise the new replacement. Tourists and passersby will have the enjoyment to gaze upon this new flag for many years t...
POMEROY––The School District (PSD) opened to in-person instruction August 31, with a Health District-approved plan. Part of the plan includes Superintendent Rachel Gwinn and Health District Administrator Martha Lanman meeting on a weekly basis to assess changes in students, staff and community, and modify protocols when needed. Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) was expected to arrive the week prior to school opening. Some clarifications and changes to the original plan were discussed at the PSD School Board Meeting on Monday, August 24, 2020,...
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” – William Hazlitt...
POMEROY-Martha Lanman Garfield County Health District (GCHD) Administrator presented the updated COIVD-19 statistics for Garfield County at the GCHD meeting August 24, stating there have been 115 residents and 15 non-residents tested with 111 negative results, four positives, no positive results within the county in the last 14 days and currently no tests pending. In comparison, Asotin County has become a real concern in the last two weeks, which has seen positive test results double, and new cases reported every day. Walla Walla County is...
A. F. Branco...
They were just words. “Tear down the Berlin Wall!” Reagan to Gorbachev at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987 “Chance of rain.” Weatherman in Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina, 2005. “Give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry, 1775 “I wish I’d never read this book... so I could read it again for the first time”. Dan Trimble about Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea”. 1992 “The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank.” Erma Bombeck. 1976 We often underestimate the value of words. “Good job,...
King County recently released its 2020 Climate Action Plan. Already, county public relations staff have been busy touting the "accomplishments" of the last climate plan. One thing they don't mention, however, is that the county is on track to miss its self-imposed 2020 CO2 reduction target by 96 percent. You won't see that anywhere in the long press release from County Executive Dow Constantine. Instead, he claims the county "surpassed many of our goals." Touting procedural successes while...
Flu Season is right around the corner and Garfield County Hospital District would like share some information taken from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. How does flu spread? Flu viruses are thought to spread mainly from person to person through droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze, or possibly by touching a surface or object that has flu virus on it and then touching his or her own mouth, nose, and eyes. People infected with flu may be able to infect others beginning...
POMEROY–The yummy smell of homemade bread, a birthday card slipped under your door from a secret friend or even a surprise visit are memories made and revisited for years to come. At times, we do not take the time to stop and smell the roses, taking life’s little things for granted. Gestures as simple as a text saying goodnight or a plate of cookies dropped by your store or house go unnoticed. Why? That is the big question. Perhaps we tend to over inflate the importance of the “have to” things...
POMEROY–The Garfield County Museum will now be open to the public each Friday beginning September 4 at 1-4 p.m. Visitors are required to adhere to all Covid-19 precautions while at the museum. We ask, if you feel sick, please visit us when you feel better. Patrons will wear a mask, (a mask will be provided to those without one) and practice social distancing of six feet in addition to other COVID-19 protocols. Visitors will notice new displays with artistic touches provided by Charis and Adleigh Gates. The girls enjoyed dressing mannequins w...
Ten Years Ago September 1, 2010 Puget Sound Energy completed the purchase of more than nine acres of land just outside Pomeroy for the future site of an operations and maintenance facility for the utility’s Lower Snake River Wind Project. Local firefighters responded to another mutual-assistance call from Columbia County on Thursday, when large fires start by harvest operations in the county eventually spread east into Garfield County. The Hubbard Fire eventually burned 11,500 acres across the two counties. Twenty-Five Years Ago September 6, 1...
POMEROY–The Garfield County Transportation Authority (GCTA) announced the hire of two new part-time drivers Monday, Aug. 17. The pair were hired out of three qualified applicants. Kristine Hyer and Dave Boyer will begin driving for the GCTA after training. Director Rachel Anderson stated that due to the COVID-19 Phase 3 status, all trips are limited to four riders at a time. Recently, some potential riders have been turned away due to the limitation. However, for the medical appointment and shopper trips, medical appointments get priority. T...
BELLINGHAM, Wash.–Bryan McGreevy, 23, hit his second career hole–in–one in twelve years of golf on the 14th hole at Lake Paddon Golf Course in Bellingham, Wash., last Saturday, August 29. According to the pro of the course, it was the first hole–in–one recorded on that particular hole at Lake Paddon Course, a 306–yard, par–4. McGreevy used a Calloway 4 Hex Tour Soft ball and his Taylormade Burner 10.5–degree driver to complete the shot, witnessed by Joel Reitz and Kylie Kufeld, both of Belling...