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POMEROY–The Garfield County Board of Commissioners (BOCC) signed a letter notifying the City of the 5.7% increase in the Law Enforcement and Court Services Fees for 2022 at the meeting on November 1. Garfield County has provided law enforcement services to the City since 2001. The increase reflects the rise of the cost of living. County Engineer Grant Morgan announced the county's acquisition of a second recycling container. The county now owns two, with a third company container in rotation w...
POMEROY–The 2021 Homecoming Court was presented during halftime of the football game played with Liberty Christian, Friday night, October 29. The Pirates had taken a hold of the score during the first quarter by 46-6, starting the running clock. By half time the Pirates were ahead 54-6, and scored once more in the third period for a 62-6 final score....
POMEROY–The School District Board of Directors (PSD) approved recommendations to hire three coaches at their meeting on October 26. Sonia Hevener was approved as High School softball coach, Al Damron as High School golf coach and Kyler Lovgren as High School baseball coach. Assistant coaches have not been determined yet. The PSD board also accepted the resignation of Alia Scoggin as a one-one paraprofessional. Resolutions No. 304 and No. 305 was approved. Resolution No. 304 is a $15,000 i...
Families of all shapes and sizes were out and about along Pomeroy's Main Street early Friday afternoon seeking tricks...or treats...mainly treats from participating Main Street establishments. More Halloween pictures that'll give you goose bumps are in this week....
POMEROY–The Wall of Fame recipients for 2021 are Byron Walter and Jeff Ruchert. They were honored with this award for the 2021 Washington State Department of Transpiration Conference by ZOOM on October 12, 2021. Rachel Anderson submitted a written nomination for Walter and Ruchert for their outstanding service to Garfield County residents. "I nominated them because of their devotion to serving the residence of Garfield County, she said, and they were chosen to be Wall of Fame recipients this y...
POMEROY–At the time of this publication's press deadline, election results were not available. Please look for them in the November 11 edition of the East Washingtonian....
POMEROY–Fall, the season to fall back, reclaiming what was taken away in the spring, with the tradition of moving clocks back to standard time at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 7. The practice of Daylight savings time is to move the clocks ahead one hour in the spring to claim more daylight toward the end of the day. For George Hudson, an entomologist, in 1895, proposed a two-hour change in order to have more time for bug hunting. During World War I, it helped preserve fuel usage for power and l...
“I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.” – Helen Hunt Jackson...
OLYMPIA–House Republicans today called for a repeal of the Democrats' new long-term care insurance program and payroll tax. Rep. Joe Schmick and Rep. Peter Abbarno have drafted legislation to repeal the state program, saying it is unfair, inadequate, insolvent, and that the payroll tax is regressive. "This program creates the false hope that people's long-term care needs will be satisfied, when in fact, it will be woefully inadequate for the majority of those who eventually need long-term c...
I had just finished loading 184 seven-foot steel T-posts, old ones, by the way, in my pickup and was unloading a mere 24 bales of hay from the front section of my gooseneck stock trailer. It was a hot, humid afternoon in early fall when the dead braches begin to stick out of the cottonwood greenery, and the garden starts goin’ to heck and no one cares. I could almost smell the cumin from Ramon’s #6 Combination Plate being distilled in my sweat from lunch earlier. Then I saw the blue box. The...
When Governor Inslee issued his COVID vaccine mandate for most state employees and health-care workers in both the public and private sectors, we wondered if and when he would try to extend that mandate to all private employers. This week the agency known for cracking down on employers over other COVID mandates set the stage for the governor to make that next move. In short, the Department of Labor and Industries has effectively extended the emergency rules dating from May 2020 that allow it to...
If you haven't noticed by now, I love history. During holidays, when tradition and nostalgia add their weight, history becomes especially impactful. This month is no different as we celebrate Thanksgiving Day! We all know the story of how the virtuous pilgrims began the practice of a Thanksgiving Feast with the friendly local Wampanoag Tribe, who taught them how to hunt and grow corn. Together, they lived happily ever after. At least that is the history we like to remember in November. We may...
POMEROY–The Garfield County Pioneer Association held their annual tour of the Mayview area of the county on Saturday, September 25, 2021. The tour was originally scheduled for June of 2020 but has been necessary to postpone due to the COVID outbreak. The tour began at 8:30 a.m. at the Garfield County Museum with transportation provided by two of the county transportations buses. Several participants joined the buses at the first stop on the tour. The first stop was at the Lynn School located o...
Ten years ago November 2, 2011 On Friday, October 2, Garfield Fire District No. 1 Ambulance and Rescue were dispatched to a hunter who had fallen and suffered a possible back/pelvic injury in the Cabin Saddle/ Wenatchee Creek area, which is between Mount Misery in Garfield County and Mount Horrible in Asotin County. Due to the distance to that area, LifeFlight from Lewiston was requested as well. Thanks to the persistence of Alesia Ruchert of Pomeroy’s Southeast Washington Economic D...
POMEROY––With a 62-6 win over Liberty Christian behind them, the undefeated Pomeroy Pirates set sail for the 1B Southeast 8-Man Championship at Sunnyside Christian tonight, Nov. 4. Sunnyside Christian (8-1, 5-1 1B SE) had been unbeaten until a 54-14 loss to DeSales last week, which makes Pomeroy's upcoming contest crucial for an uncontested league championship. "A win versus the Knights clinches the outright league championship for the Pirates," commented Head Coach Kyle Kimble. "It was ano...
POMEROY––The Lady Pirates crammed half of their Southeast 1B league season into a 50-hour segment of last week, and when the dust cleared, they held a third-place berth to the District Tournament, and faced Liberty Christian last Tuesday night on the court in Richland. (Game info to appear next week.) Pomeroy achieved a tournament berth by beating Colton on Monday, November 1, in three games, then getting the higher seed thanks to a favorable number draw over Garfield-Palouse. The Lady Bucs got...
COLFAX–Pomeroy’s four-man Cross Country team ran in the District 7/9 Regionals here Saturday, October 30 and counted individual improvements for two on the team, but the team’s placing in the 110-runner field resulted in the season ending without advancement to the State XC Meet. “Our athletes did a great job as Trevin [Walton] and Cash [Copher] both were able to obtain new PRs for the season, while Brady [Bott] came within three seconds of his season PR,” said Head Coach Greg Sharp. Pirate XC runner Trevin Walton’s time of 21:16.29 and Cash Co...