Articles from the May 28, 2020 edition
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Fair Board moving forward with plans to hold fair
POMEROY–Plans to move forward with the Garfield County Fair in September were made at the May 19 Fair Board teleconference meeting with the "Phasing" process as its measurement. Due to the ongoing c...
GCHD receives $245,000 legislative grant
POMEROY-The Garfield County Hospital District (GCHD) received a legislative grant in the amount of $245,000, earmarked for the Capital Improvement Project (CIP) of installation of a new electrical...
Construction to resume on Port's broadband system
POMEROY–The Port of Garfield commissioners approved a $64,458.92 payment to M&L Construction at the May 19 meeting, and with authorization to resume construction on the broadband system which had been delayed due to the COVID-19 shut down. Diana R...
County managing COVID-19 relief funds
POMEROY–John Hirsch, Garfield County Emergency Management Director, addressed the County Commissioners regarding how to budget coronavirus relief funds from the Department of Commerce (DOC) during t...
Three-way race for County Commissioner
POMEROY–The August 4 Primary Election will narrow a three-candidate field for Garfield County Commissioner Position 1 following the recently completed Filing Week, with incumbent Commissioner Wynne McCabe seeking re-election with a challenger. Three...
GCTA Back on the Road
POMEROY–Commuter service to the Lewis-Clark Valley was reinstated Monday, May 11, Director Rachel Anderson announced at the Garfield County Transportation Authority (GCTA) meeting May 18. There are two to three regular commuters being served with t...
Quote of the Week
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” – Johannes Brahms...
On the Edge of Common Sense
The sport (passion, or affliction) of team roping experienced a terrific boom in popularity years ago with the creation of an association called United States Team Roping Championships (USTRC). It established a classification system based on the...
A Teen's Take
POMEROY–Life without going to school has become complicated and seems down-right weird. Honestly, I miss all of it. Even the educational factor of school. Now that we have been doing online school f...
Hospital Update
To meet the needs of the community today and in the future, Garfield County Hospital District is pleased to announce an enhanced Transitional Care program. This is a high quality, evidence-based program for patients who are well enough to leave a...
Suicide prevention course offered
POMEROY–A one-hour online suicide preventing training course if offered to local citizens and coalition members by the Garfield County Prevention, Quality Behavioral Health, Pomeroy Office. To participate in the training, register by contacting S...
Senior Projects
By Kevin Leslie Lassiter The project consisted of weeding the rows of rose bushes and repainting the bench that resides on the property, this is located at the end of Columbia street near the Colman...
Senior Projects
By Brooke Ames, Mason Blachly and Jack Lyle This project was a six-and-a-half-month-long process. My group decided to take the Ruark/New Century Cemetery and create a place where people can see their...
Senior Projects
By Olivia Meyers, Anna Dinsmore and Byron Stallcop Nowadays, pursuing a higher education is a financial burden on many. The Community Scholarship was created last year by Alex Bremer, who did it with...
Senior Projects
By Evan Bartels and Danner Maves Our project was to organize and execute a food drive. We accomplished this by asking for permission from Susie Bowles, the head of the Garfield County Food Bank, to ru...
Senior Projects
By Briielle Robison For my senior project, I wanted to do something that created a fun activity for Jr. High and High School students. I decided that holding a Stranger Things marathon at the Seeley...
Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits
Ten Years Ago May 26, 2010 Garfield County Sheriff Larry Bowles submitted his resignation last week, stating a “medical retirement” recommended by his physician. Undersheriff Ben Keller was appointed interim sheriff. Puget Sound Energy announced the...
Senior Projects
My name is Tanner Bremer and I am in the Senior Project group with Heidi Heytvelt, Teagan Steele and Jaden Steele. For our Senior Project, we finished painting the mural on the pool, the locker room...
Senior Projects
By Alyssa Wolf, Sydney Watko, Maddy Dixon Our senior project is a fundraising basketball tournament for charity. We raised money for the Diabetes Foundations at St. Joseph Hospital and for Shriners...
Senior Projects
My name is Imigin Latham and this year of 2019-20 for my senior project I repainted the City Park with my partner Alyssa Rayford. My partner and I worked on our project over the summer. We had...
Senior Projects
This year for my senior project I helped coach Little guy football. I was an assistant coach to coach Kyle Kimble. Right after my own high school practices I would stay and help with anything and...
Senior Projects
Dillen Gerking has been busy with his recycling senior project this year. His project was facilitating the grade school and high school with their recycling needs. He was in charge of collecting the...
Senior Projects
By Sawyer Tardif For my senior project, I refurbished the greeting signs on the East and West ends of Pomeroy. This project was not extremely time consuming but I do believe that the end result was...
