Articles from the March 9, 2023 edition
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Suspects in 2022 drug case plead guilty
POMEROY–The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of Lewiston SWAT and Quad City Task Force, executed a search warrant on June 23, 2022 resulting in the arrest of three suspects at 2030 Pataha St., Pomeroy. Two of the arrested sus...
Annual Easter Egg Hunt planning underway
POMEROY–The Spinners' 12th Annual Easter Egg Hunt is scheduled tentatively at the Crystal Springs Golf Course and Lybecker Football field on Saturday, April 8, 2023. More details to come. Spinners' me...
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Grant Morgan resigns as interim county engineer
POMEROY-The Garfield County board of commissioners (BOCC) discussed filling the county engineer position, met a new Sheriff’s deputy, and approved an intergovernmental salary at their meeting on M...
Lexi Beale and Elizabeth Ruchert hired to coach Pirate fast-pitch softball
POMEROY–The Pomeroy School District (PSD) Board of Directors hired softball coaches and discussed changes to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) district regions, according t...
Spring forward
UNITED STATES–Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at 2 a.m. It is time to "spring forward" one hour. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of moving the clocks forward one h...
Pomeroy Gun Club
POMEROY–The Pomeroy Gun Club members had a busy week nine of the Camas Prairie Trapshooting competition and seven members traveled to Orofino Gun Club for their registered shoot on Saturday March 4. Wayne Tetrick dominated over the 46 shooters that a...
Quote of the Week
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.” – Horace Walpole...
Olympia Update
Too many Puget Sound lawmakers never look beyond their grocery stores to understand the struggle of our farmers to keep those stores supplied. It's why Sen. Mark Schoesler, Rep. Joe Schmick, and I...
Scholarship available for career and technical students
OLYMPIA–Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board offer the Washington Award for Vocational Excellence (WAVE) scholarship to Washington’s top career and technical education (CTE) students that can help pay up to two years of college tui...
Guest Comment
By Eric E. McKeirnan Guest Columnist I like to think that at least for the time being, we have the legal right to politically satirize the things we read in the papers and see on television. Satire is a form of entertainment. If it hurts your...
OPINION
By Congressman Dan Newhouse WASHINGTON D.C.–After the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) took major heat last month from considering a nationwide ban on gas stoves, the Biden Administration quickly reversed course, saying they would n...
Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits
Ten Years Ago March 13, 2013 Jim McKeirnan brought a one-week-old lamb to Garfield County Memorial Hospital's long-term care wing to the delight of residents and staff alike. Jim said the lamb would...
GCTA ride to Munday party
POMEROY–The Garfield County Transit Authority (GCTA) will offer transportation to the Louise Munday 100th Birthday party happening on March 11 at 1 p.m. Contact GCTA at 509-843-0200 to reserve your seat early....
Pirate baseball, fast-pitch and golf season openers set
POMEROY––Spring sports get underway next week, with the Pomeroy Pirate baseball and softball teams hosting Liberty (Spangle) Tuesday, March 14, each team playing double headers. Next up on the schedule for the baseball team will be at Asotin ver...
Junior High Wrestling
The Jr. Hi. Wrestling team traveled to Lincoln MS in Pullman February 27 to match up with Jenifer, Potlatch, Dayton/Waitsburg, and Pullman MS. Pomeroy competed against every school within a 100-mile radius that has junior high winter wrestling. "We...
