Articles from the January 9, 2020 edition
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County Commissioners approve 2020 budget
POMEROY-The Garfield County Commissioners approved the budget for 2020 at a public hearing at 10 a.m. Monday morning, December 30, 2019, at the Garfield County Courthouse board room, and signed Resolution 2019-33. The Supplemental Budget Hearing was...
Shawley Returns from Junior World Finals Rodeo
POMEROY–Local High School freshman Lane Shawley, returned from his first Junior World Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, held during the week of December 3-11, 2019, without a win, but with an enthusiastic at...
SEWEDA works with BMAC for the U.S. Census
POMEROY–Jack Peasley, Southeast Washington Economic Development Association (SEWEDA), Pomeroy Director discussed several projects during the Pomeroy Garfield County Community Economic Development Forum meeting in November. First, he announced that h...
GCPW bracing for $132,000 loss
POMEROY–Garfield County Public Works (GCPW) is bracing for the potential loss of $132,000 in gas tax revenues for 2020 and will minimize the level of snow removal service, maintaining strict compliance with snow-plow policies. Since Initiative 976 (...
New bill could create loss of revenue to County
POMEROY-Katie Magill, Garfield County District Court Deputy, brought a new legislative issue to the attention of the Garfield County Commissioners at their regular meeting Monday, December 23, 2019. The new bill being considered in the Washington sta...
On the Edge of Common Sense
McGraw posed an interesting question. If a cowboy herds a herd of cattle, we call him a herder. If a sheepman herds a flock of sheep, he’s still a herder. Why isn’t he called a flocker? Oley has alw...
Letter to the Editor
To the editor, I was pleased to see my Letter to the Editor regarding the local hospital, but was not so happy about the obvious lack of proof-reading by the Edub. I pulled up a copy of my letter, and found several errors on your part, not mine. The...
A Teen's Take
POMEROY–Being a 15-year-old girl is hard. Way more than I thought it was going to be. School gets increasingly difficult, which everyone expected and the relationships teens develop, not n...
New van expected soon by GCTA
POMEROY–At the monthly meeting of the Garfield County Transportation Authority, Rachel Anderson, General Manager, announced that a brand new cut-away van is expected to arrive soon. It is currently being fitted and installed with needed equipment. T...
Voluntary Stewardship Program and Stewardship Cost-Share Sign-Up for Implementation Projects
POMEROY–The Garfield County Work Group is taking project applications for the following type of projects identified in Garfield Voluntary Stewardship Program (VSP) Work Plan: Residue and Tillage, Management–No till/Direct Seed/2-Pass, Precision Agr...
2020 scholarship application now available
WALLA WALLA–Applications for Blue Mountain Community Foundation (BMCF) welcomes scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year. Scholarships are available for students entering higher education or other post-high school training and education. A few s...
Pomeroy Gun Club 10-week shoot
POMEROY–The Pomeroy Gun Club will again participate in the Camas Prairie Telephonic Trap Shoot that will start this Saturday January 11 for Juniors and Sunday January 12 for Adults. The shoot will run for the usual 10 weeks and will culminate in 1...
Commentary
The New Year came in with a promise of so many things, normal, until the phone rang. It was not good news. As my husband and I listened to the conversation on the other end of the line, we hurriedly threw some clothes in a suitcase, a toothbrush...
Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits
Ten Years Ago January 6, 2010 The former Pataha jail was moved 50 meters or so from behind the home of Pataha Flour Mills founder John Houser to a spot just in front of the mill building. The jail was constructed about the time the mill was built in...
Columbia Pulp contemplating the next step for the Pomeroy plant
POMEROY–Mike Shock, Vice President of Columbia Pulp, and one of the three founders of the company took time to explained some intricacies relating to the purpose of the local plant during a Pomeroy Garfield County Community Economic Development F...
4-H Corner
By Conrad Nelson, Club Reporter POMEROY–Hi my name is Conrad Nelson and I am the Blue Ribbon 4-H club reporter. The Blue Ribbon 4-H club was called to order by Carolina Morfin on December 15 at 4 p.m....
4-H Corner
By Conrad Nelson, Club Reporter POMEROY–The Creative Kids 4-H Club was called to order by my leader, Jessica Nelson on December 6, 2019 at 2 p. m., in the Family and Consumer Science room at the H...
Health District receives grant for mental health services
POMEROY–Martha Lanman, Public Health Administrator for the Garfield County Health District, announced at its regular monthly meeting with the Garfield County Commissioners on Monday, December 23, 2019, that they have received a $150,000 grant from th...
Lady Buccaneers send Colton a message
POMEROY–The Lady Pirates left no doubt in the minds of their intense rivals, the Colton Lady Wildcats, keeping their unbeaten streak going with a solid 47-20 win in the two teams' first meeting s...
White second at Joseph Invite
JOSEPH, ORE.–Pirate grappler Braedyn White went down to the wire in the 170-lb championship match, dropping the match by points at the 15-team Jo-Hi Cosgrove/Eschler Wrestling Invitational here J...
Pirates notch win over Wildcats
POMEROY–The Pirates teamed up to register a nine-point win over the Colton Wildcats here last Saturday, prevailing in a taut matchup that went all four quarters for a Southeast B league win. The Buccaneers dropped a post-holiday break non-league game...
