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The Seventh Place 2021 Pomeroy High School Volleyball Team dropped its first match against Naselle, then won out to bring home another State Volleyball trophy. Some of the matches were intense, and the Lady Pirates fought through the adversity–something the tumultuous, covid-altered regular season prepared them for–and finished strong. Head Coach Adam Van Vogt said the team never gave up, nor did they falter in believing in themselves, their coaches and on another. See page 9 for more. Fro...
POMEROY–The Garfield County board of commissioners (BOCC) signed a letter of support to the Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project at their meeting on November 15. The Lower Snake project is currently accepting application for new green energy projects, as they are required to do by Washington State. The letter encourages them to keep their projects in the Lower Snake Basin, rather than outsourcing their labor to out-of-county or out-of-state entities. The Board also authorized a $3,000 p...
POMEROY–The local school held a Veteran's Day celebration honoring those who have served our country with strength and honor with a Quilt of Valor presentation, patriotic songs and a slide show of local veterans. Quilts of Valor Foundation member Alice Gwinn and her assistants Gwen Schwimmer and Shantae Cloud awarded seven quilts to local veterans. John Stephens served in the army from 1945 until 1947, enlisting before World War Two ended. His daughter Joanne Pederson works at Pomeroy High S...
POMEROY–Garfield County Fire District #No. 1 announced the beginning of a Firefighter 1 class at their meeting on November 9. The class will begin on December 6 and continue on Monday nights until March. Volunteers who have successfully completed the class will be eligible for a $1,500 stipend that is financed through a Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant. A grant from Lewis Clark Valley Heath Care Foundation for the purchase of a cardiac monitor totals $32,000. T...
POMEROY–The Blue Mountain Artisan Guild celebrated the opening of their show “Winter Beauty” on November 5. The show was sponsored by JD Brown and Cathy Reinland and featured artist Eric Argyle and junior artists Maureen Scoggin’s Pomeroy Elementary Art Class students. Other art shown included pottery by Sarah Scoggin and Mary Flerchinger’s icons....
“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.” – Benjamin Jowett...
In a 7-2 ruling this morning the State Supreme Court said the partial vetoes the Governor made in the 2019 transportation budget were unconstitutional. When issuing those vetoes the Governor said: “While my veto authority is generally limited to subsections or appropriation items in an appropriation bill, in this very rare and unusual circumstance I have no choice but to veto a single sentence in several subsections to prevent a constitutional violation and to prevent a forced violation of state law.” The State Supreme Court disagreed tod...
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“There’s only one thing worse than eating next to a left-handed person, and that’s heading for him. It’s like trying to screw the male end of a garden house into the matching threads on your stock tank drain,” so spoke Bob to Allen, two fair-to-middlin’ team ropers, both fives, in the prime of their addiction. The equivalent of two-pack-a-day ropers. “Yeah, team ropin’s gone to hell,” answered Allen. “Used to be one guy had an arena and twelve guys came to his place to rope. You got in good pra...
By Sen. Mark Schoesler Last Friday, Secretary of the Senate Brad Hendrickson sent an email to all senators and Senate staff to announce how the Senate will conduct the 2022 legislative session after the Senate’s Facilities and Operations Committee voted along party lines, 4-3, to approve the 2022 session plan. All three Republican senators on the F&O committee voted against this plan. Unfortunately, the public once again will be prevented from attending Senate committee meetings in person, as co...
POMEROY–The Lewis Clark Credit Union (LCCU) celebrated five years here recently with drawings, door prized, refreshments and a children's Halloween coloring contest. LCCU also celebrated by awarding five $1,000 donations to five local organizations: Seeley Theatre, Garfield County Food Bank, Senior Center, Pirate Booster Club, and Denny Ashby Library. "We celebrated five years in Pomeroy on October 22 with a children's Halloween coloring contest, door prizes, refreshments and five $1,000 donatio...
POMEROY–The annual "50¢ Christmas Sale" is planned at the United Methodist Church on Saturday, December 4 at 9-11 a.m. The much anticipated "50¢ Christmas Sale" at the Pomeroy Methodist Church on 796 Columbia St, 8th Street entrance, will help mark off much of your holiday shopping list. This year, as in the past, children shop first from 9-9:30 a.m., with free wrapping of each precious gift. The Fireside is open and available to adults who are waiting for their shopping time at 9:30-10:30 a.m...
Kanin’s Gingerbread Man Kanin Koller: Age 6 Ingredients A bag full of sugar 2 C. flour 2 purple gum drops Frosting for a face and eyes 10 chocolates Directions: Get a gingerbread slicer and a tray. Mix the dough with the chocolate before you slice it. Put the gumdrops on and the frosting for his face. The gumdrops go on his chest and bellybutton. Set the oven to 10 degrees. Put them in for 10 minutes. Take them out and wait for them to cool. It makes 20 gingerbread men. I have a lot of v...
Ten Years Ago November 16, 2011 The Board of Directors of the Garfield County Fair Association selected the theme of the 2012 Fair at their meeting Nov. 10. “Sow it, Grow it, and Show it” will be the slogan for the event on Sept. 14, 15, and 16, 2012, according to board president Linda McKeirnan. Blue Mountain Artisan Guild’s Christmas Art Show and Sale will be held at the Holiday Bazaar, sponsored by Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce. The event will be held at the old Odd Fellows Hall, currently Pome...
Laurel Helen Feider, 95, passed away November 4, 2021. Arrangements by Hubbard-Rogg Funeral Home, Dayton, Wash....
YAKIMA–A hallmark of the 2021 volleyball season, the Lady Pirates battled adversity and up hill through the consolation round to come out of the 1B State Volleyball Tournament with a seventh-place trophy after losing in the opening round. "In a lot of ways, State reflected our season," commented Head Coach Adam Van Vogt, whose squad finished the season 17-9. "We overcame so much adversity and there were many times our girls could have just said, 'this is too hard or too much to overcome.' T...
POMEROY––The undefeated Pirates continue their pursuit of a state trophy this Saturday on Lybecker Field as they take on the Naselle Comets in the second round of the 2021 1B State Football playoffs. The kickoff is at 1 p.m. Naselle defeated Waterville-Mansfield 68-12 to advance to Saturday's meeting with the Pirates. Below these teams on the bracket is Wilbur-Creston-Keller versus Almira-Coulee-Hartline, at Lions Field in Moses Lake on Saturday. WCK was a 50-22 winner over Neah Bay in Mos...