Articles from the September 3, 2020 edition
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Commissioners approve Fair Plan; overnight camping being debated
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...
Breezy weekend tests Rattlesnake Fire containment lines
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. T...
Livestock Show & Sale a go with COVID restrictions
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, G...
Scouts honor new American flag
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...
School opens Monday to in-person classes
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 ass...
Quote of the Week
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” – William Hazlitt...
No new COVID positives in Garfield County
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...
On the Edge of Common Sense
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 o...
OPINION
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,...
HOSPITAL UPDATE
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...
A Teen's Take
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 n...
Garfield County Museum reopens to the public Sept. 4
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 f...
Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits
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 f...
Garfield County Transit Authority hires two new drivers
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 t...
McGreevy scores albatross
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. Accor...
